Connecting Pentaho Data Integration to MapR Using Apache Drill

Pentaho Data Integration (PDI) provides the ETL capabilities that facilitate the process of capturing, cleansing, and storing data. Its uniform…

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Connecting to Apache Drill with Power BI (Part 3)

In my first post, I showed how you might quickly deploy a Drill-enabled cluster to the Azure cloud using the…

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Connecting a Drill-enabled MapR Cluster to Azure Resources (Part 2)

In my last post, I deployed a MapR cluster to the Azure cloud using the template available through the Azure…

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Deploying Drill on MapR in the Azure Cloud

Earlier this year, I published a series of posts on the deployment of Apache Drill to Azure. While the steps…

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Apache Drill SQL Queries on Parquet Data

In this week’s Whiteboard Walkthrough Parth Chandra, Chair of PMC for Apache Drill project and member of MapR engineering team,…

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How to Guide: Getting Started with Apache Drill

Apache Drill is an engine that can connect to many different data sources, and provide a SQL interface to them.…

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Big Data SQL: Overview of Apache Drill Query Execution Capabilities – Whiteboard Walkthrough

In this week’s Whiteboard Walkthrough, Neeraja Rentachintala, Senior Director of Product Management at MapR Technologies, gives an overview of how…

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SQL Query on Mixed Schema Data Using Apache Drill

You may have heard this statement before:      Apache Drill does schema discovery on-the-fly. What does that mean, and why should…

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Resolving JSON schema Changes with Drill and Python

Drill is a fantastic tool for querying JSON data. But Drill isn’t magical, and sometimes it runs into some data…

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