March 4, 2019
PUDDLES ON THE DATA LAKEEnterprise data management has changed immensely over the past few decades…we’ve lived through data warehousing and data marts, struggled with scaling to huge data volumes and slow query performance, so on and so forth. As time progressed, true Big Data…
If your team has been trying to connect your Business Intelligence (BI) tools to your Hadoop environment, you're familiar with the typical issues: performance, security and the inability to model the data in a way that business users like to…
Modeling Multi-Level Facts In our last Advanced Modeling blog post we looked at using bridge tables to resolve many-to-many relationships. In this post, we are going to expand that use case and look into how to model facts that apply…
Part One - Modeling Many-to-Many Relationships Using Bridge Tables I have been fortunate throughout my career to work with a range of companies, from some of the largest enterprises in the world to smaller companies that are disrupting industries with…
When we started AtScale five years ago, there were just five of us, driven by the desire to change the way enterprises deliver analytics to the business. AtScale was born out of necessity. At Yahoo!, my team and I had…
Like many people these days, I really love data. I started my career in the 90s evangelizing business intelligence (BI) and invented one of the first BI platforms for the enterprise. For the past 10 years, at companies like Yahoo!…
In our last segment, we learned about Hadoop's various components and how they work together as a Big Data Management platform. The next key step to understand is how your team can load data into Hadoop. Many are under the…
I was late to the game when I unboxed my first iPhone in 2008. As a mechanical engineering student at the time, it wasn’t an easy decision to spend 2 months’ food budget on a “non-essential gadget”. Thankfully, it turned…
We started AtScale because we believe that everyone should be able to use all data for all decisions. We believe that people should have unencumbered and secured access to information, work with data of all shapes, at lightning speed and…
Yesterday, Gartner published the 2016 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. At face value, not…
