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…
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…
