Data Processing with Apache Spark

Learn how to use Apache Spark with SQL Server to process data efficiently from several different types of datafiles. Learn how you can process data with Apache Spark and what better way to establish the capabilities of Spark than to put it through its paces and use the Hadoop-DS benchmark to compare performance, throughput, and SQL compatibility against SQL Server.

Spark has emerged as a favorite for analytics, especially those instances that can handle massive volumes of data as well as provide high performance compared to any other conventional database engines. Spark SQL allows users to formulate their complex business requirements to Spark by using the familiar language of SQL.

So, in this blog, we will see how you can process data with Apache Spark and what better way to establish the capabilities of Spark than to put it through its paces and use the Hadoop-DS benchmark to compare performance, throughput, and SQL compatibility against SQL Server.

Before we begin, ensure that the following test environment is available:

• SQL Server: 32 GB RAM with Windows server 2012 R2.
• Hadoop Cluster: Two machines with 8GB RAM, Ubuntu flavor.

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Your Data Architecture: Simple Best Practices for Your Data Strategy

If you accumulate data on which you base your decision-making as an organization, you should probably think about your data architecture and possible best practices.

If you accumulate data on which you base your decision-making as an organization, you most probably need to think about your data architecture and consider possible best practices. Gaining a competitive edge, remaining customer-centric to the greatest extent possible, and streamlining processes to get on-the-button outcomes can all be traced back to an organization’s capacity to build a future-ready data architecture.

In what follows, we offer a short overview of the overarching capabilities of data architecture. These include user-centricity, elasticity, robustness, and the capacity to ensure the seamless flow of data at all times. Added to these are automation enablement, plus security and data governance considerations. These points from our checklist for what we perceive to be an anticipatory analytics ecosystem.

#big data #data science #big data analytics #data analysis #data architecture #data transformation #data platform #data strategy #cloud data platform #data acquisition

Big Data Tools 1.0 Generally Available | The Big Data Tools Blog

A new update of the Big Data Tools plugin has been released. This is our first version for general use, after a year and a half of the Early Access Preview program.

Install the plugin from the JetBrains Plugin Repository or from inside your IDE to edit Zeppelin notebooks, upload files to cloud filesystems, and monitor Hadoop and Spark clusters. The following JetBrains IDEs support the plugin: IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, PyCharm Professional Edition, and DataGrip.

In this release, we’ve added many useful features and addressed a variety of bugs. Let’s dive into the details.

#big data tools #newsletter #plugins #releases #apache #apache spark #apache zeppelin #big data #big data tools #precode #python #spark #spark-submit #zeppelin

Big Data Tools 1.0 Generally Available

A new update of the Big Data Tools plugin has been released. This is our first version for general use, after a year and a half of the Early Access Preview program.

Install the plugin from the JetBrains Plugin Repository or from inside your IDE to edit Zeppelin notebooks, upload files to cloud filesystems, and monitor Hadoop and Spark clusters. The following JetBrains IDEs support the plugin: IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, PyCharm Professional Edition, and DataGrip.

In this release, we’ve added many useful features and addressed a variety of bugs. Let’s dive into the details.

#big data tools #newsletter #plugins #releases #apache #apache spark #apache zeppelin #big data #big data tools #precode #python #spark #spark-submit #zeppelin

Getting Started With Data Lakes

Frameworks for Efficient Enterprise Analytics

The opportunities big data offers also come with very real challenges that many organizations are facing today. Often, it’s finding the most cost-effective, scalable way to store and process boundless volumes of data in multiple formats that come from a growing number of sources. Then organizations need the analytical capabilities and flexibility to turn this data into insights that can meet their specific business objectives.

This Refcard dives into how a data lake helps tackle these challenges at both ends — from its enhanced architecture that’s designed for efficient data ingestion, storage, and management to its advanced analytics functionality and performance flexibility. You’ll also explore key benefits and common use cases.

Introduction

As technology continues to evolve with new data sources, such as IoT sensors and social media churning out large volumes of data, there has never been a better time to discuss the possibilities and challenges of managing such data for varying analytical insights. In this Refcard, we dig deep into how data lakes solve the problem of storing and processing enormous amounts of data. While doing so, we also explore the benefits of data lakes, their use cases, and how they differ from data warehouses (DWHs).

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This is a preview of the Getting Started With Data Lakes Refcard. To read the entire Refcard, please download the PDF from the link above.

#big data #data analytics #data analysis #business analytics #data warehouse #data storage #data lake #data lake architecture #data lake governance #data lake management

Making Sense of Unbounded Data & Real-Time Processing Systems

Unbounded data refers to continuous, never-ending data streams with no beginning or end. They are made available over time. Anyone who wishes to act upon them can do without downloading them first.

As Martin Kleppmann stated in his famous book, unbounded data will never “complete” in any meaningful way.

“In reality, a lot of data is unbounded because it arrives gradually over time: your users produced data yesterday and today, and they will continue to produce more data tomorrow. Unless you go out of business, this process never ends, and so the dataset is never “complete” in any meaningful way.”

— Martin Kleppmann, Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Processing unbounded data requires an entirely different approach than its counterpart, batch processing. This article summarises the value of unbounded data and how you can build systems to harness the power of real-time data.

#stream-processing #software-architecture #event-driven-architecture #data-processing #data-analysis #big-data-processing #real-time-processing #data-storage