Intel vs. AMD: Comparing Instance Types for Big Data Workloads
|January 22, 2019
Recently AWS announced support for AMD-powered instances. In this post we compare the AMD and Intel instance types on cost and performance using common big…
Exploiting AWS Spot Instance Termination Notifications in Qubole
|July 23, 2018
The seamless use of AWS Spot Instances for Apache Spark, Hive, and Presto has been a marquee feature of Qubole’s AWS offering since 2015. We…
Rebalancing Hadoop Clusters for Higher Spot Utilization
|June 9, 2015
Running Hadoop clusters efficiently is an important customer use case at Qubole. When running in AWS, this often means using Spot instances efficiently. In this…
Hadoop with Enhanced Networking on AWS
|March 13, 2015
Introduction At Qubole, many of our customers run their Hadoop clusters on AWS EC2 instances. Each of these instances is a Linux guest on a…
Save Time Executing Hive Queries Using Command Templates
|January 14, 2014
A common characteristic of many analytics queries is that they are mostly invariant in form and function. Over multiple invocations of the query or command,…
Easy reusable commands with templates
|January 7, 2014
A common characteristic of many analytics queries is that they are mostly invariant in form and function. Over multiple invocations of the query or command,…
