Presto-Amazon Kinesis Connector for Interactively Querying Streaming Data
|July 16, 2015
This content was authored by Qubole and originally published on the AWS Big Data Blog. Amazon Kinesis is a scalable and fully managed service for…
Sivaramakrishnan Narayanan
Plugging in Presto UDFs
|March 4, 2015
Presto is a great query engine for a variety of SQL workloads. We’ve been offering Presto-as-a-Service for many months now and a frequent question that…
Re-using JVMs across Hadoop jobs
|December 22, 2014
One of the oft-discussed problems with Hadoop is that it launches new JVMs for each map or reduce task. Launching a new JVM and loading…
Caching in Presto
|August 29, 2014
Qubole’s Presto-as-a-Service is primarily targeted at Data Analysts who are tasked with translating ad-hoc business questions into SQL queries and getting results. Since the questions…
Presto Performance
|April 14, 2014
Presto is an open-source distributed SQL query engine, developed by Facebook. Presto was designed and written from the ground up for interactive analytics and approaches…
How Google Compute Engine and Qubole are a match made in heaven
|January 3, 2014
Big data as a service last week took another step towards becoming the primary method of data analysis. In recent times, there has been a…
Qubole Hive Server
|July 12, 2013
Qubole offers Hive as a service. When a user logs in to Qubole, he/she sees the tables and functions associated with their account and can…
Top-K Optimization
|December 16, 2012
It started with an innocent tweet in response to a blog post on how to optimize top-k queries. My colleague, Shrikanth, pointed out that Hive…
Optimizing Hadoop for S3 – Part 1
|October 30, 2012
Introduction: Users of Qubole Data Service use Hive queries or Hadoop jobs to process data that resides in Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3). S3 has…
