Key Tips for Managing Passwords in Sqoop

Sqoop is a popular data transfer tool for Hadoop. Sqoop allows easy import and export of data from structured data…

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Apache Spark as a Distributed SQL Engine

SQL has been here for awhile and people like it. However, the engines that power SQL have changed with time…

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The Method Behind March Madness

There are 150 quintillion (i.e. the one after trillion) permutations to consider when completing your NCAA bracket. Some of us…

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Gartner 2016 Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse and Database Management Solutions for Analytics

We are excited to share with you that Gartner has named MapR a Visionary in the Gartner 2016 Magic Quadrant…

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How to Log in Apache Spark

An important part of any application is the underlying log system we incorporate into it. Logs are not only for…

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The Essential Guide to Streaming-first Processing with Apache Flink

Editor’s note: This is a post by Apache Flink PMC members Fabian Hueske and Kostas Tzoumas. Fabian and Kostas are also co-founders…

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Bet Super Bowl 50 Like A Boss with Apache Spark

This time, it’s personal. Super Bowl 50 is being played at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara – within sight of…

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Data Science: Do the Numbers – Part 1

As a lifelong computational scientist (and now data scientist) I have always been fascinated with numbers, especially lists and tables…

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The Lord of the Things: Spark or Hadoop?

Are people in your data analytics organization contemplating the impending data avalanche from the internet of things and thus asking…

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