Comparing SQL Functions and Performance with Apache Spark and Apache Drill

SQL engines for Hadoop differ in their approach and functionality. My focus for this blog post is to compare and…

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Introduction to Apache Spark with Examples and Use Cases

I first heard of Spark in late 2013 when I became interested in Scala, the language in which Spark is…

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Changing the Game When it Comes to Auditing in Big Data – Part 2

In my previous blog post we enabled auditing at the various levels of your MapR cluster. In this follow up…

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Changing the Game When it Comes to Auditing in Big Data – Part 1

With MapR version 5.0 being released recently, MapR customers got yet another powerful feature at no additional licensing costs: Auditing!…

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Resource Allocation Configuration for Spark on YARN

In this blog post, I will explain the resource allocation configurations for Spark on YARN, describe the yarn-client and yarn-cluster…

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