Updated March 6, 2019
What You Might Have Missed in March 2018March is gone and Spring has arrived, at least for many of us. A lot happened in March, and we certainly don't want you to miss out on what’s big on big data. Without further ado, here is what you…
Updated March 6, 2019
TECH TALK: BI-on-Hadoop Engine Wars Continue…Everybody WinsJust this week, AtScale published the Q4 Edition of our BI-on-Hadoop Benchmark, and we found 1.5X to 4X performance improvements across SQL engines Hive, Spark, Impala and Presto for Business Intelligence and Analytic workloads on Hadoop. Bottom line, the benchmark…
Updated March 6, 2019
TECH TALK: AtScale, Hive, Druid: A Match Made In HeavenThe rapidly exploding demand for business intelligence on big data is nothing new - this trend is clearly indicated in recent Big Data Maturity surveys. As shown in the graphic below, 75% of respondents are planning on deploying BI workloads…
Updated March 6, 2019
Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence (BI) 2017: The Good, The Bad and The Wookie?!Yesterday, Gartner published the 2017 Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence. The MQ research for BI has been in existence for close to a decade; it is THE document of reference for buyers of Business Intelligence technology. Contrary to last year’s…
Updated March 6, 2019
What You Might Have Missed in April 2018It may seem like only yesterday that we said goodbye to 2017, but we are almost half-way through 2018. Big things in Big Data happened in the month of April. Many of us watched Mark Zuckerberg testify in front of…
Updated March 4, 2019
What You Might Have Missed in May 2018Summer is fast approaching and big data is (still) growing. While you were preparing for the coming hot summer days, you may have missed some of May’s big data news. Without further ado, here is what you might have missed…
Updated March 4, 2019
What You Might Have Missed in June 2018As the World Cup is kicking off, some of us might be spending a lot of sleepless nights (or waking up earlier) to watch the games. Here is a fun fact: the most anticipated match is from Group H, Japan…
Updated March 4, 2019
Three Trends From Dataworks Summit 2018We did it again! The AtScale team was present at the Dataworks Summit 2018 in San Jose, California. We hope you had the opportunity to attend some, if not all, of the great sessions that we suggested. If you missed…
Updated March 4, 2019
TECH TALK: Solving the Unrelated Dimension Dilemma. A Connect the Dots Story of Sorts.Wouldn’t it be great if you could load all of your data from a single file into an Excel pivot table for easy analysis? Unfortunately, this approach isn’t usually viable when dealing with complex business analytics and big data. Take…
Updated March 4, 2019
TECH TALK: Scale-Out Business Intelligence with HadoopThe growing popularity of big data analytics coupled with the adoption of technologies like Spark and Hadoop have allowed enterprises to collect an ever increasing amount of data - in terms of breadth and volume. At the same time, the…
