The Value of Auto-scaling
|August 16, 2016
Intro In a recent blog post, we benchmarked auto-scaling and demonstrated that an auto-scaling cluster was a lot less expensive and only a little bit…
Benchmarking Auto-scaling Spark Clusters
|August 8, 2016
Intro Have you ever had trouble deciding how large to make a cluster? Do you sometimes feel like you’re wasting money when a cluster isn’t…
RubiX: Fast Cache Access for Big Data Analytics on Cloud Storage
|June 21, 2016
Qubole introduced first-generation Caching for S3 files in Presto in 2014 and documented the observed performance gains. In a nutshell: for CPU-efficient engines like Spark…
The Numbers Don’t Lie: Apache Spark is on the Rise
|June 10, 2016
Apache Spark remains a growing force in the realm of big data. Perhaps that shouldn’t come as a surprise considering the overall momentum behind big…
Which Programming Language Should You Use For Your Big Data Project?
|May 6, 2016
Big data projects are becoming much more common as organizations seek to take advantage of all that big data has to offer. While many companies…
The Big Data Lifecycle At TubeMogul
|April 29, 2016
This post was written by Chris Chanyi, Senior Data Architect at TubeMogul. It originally appeared here. TubeMogul handles over a trillion HTTP requests a month.…
Qubole Extends Big Data-as-a-Service Platform with StreamX
|April 26, 2016
Qubole, the big data-as-a-service company, today announced it has open sourced StreamX, an ingestion service to help data teams efficiently and reliably capture large scale,…
Hadoop and the Data Warehouse: A Winning Combination for Your Business
|April 7, 2016
This post was originally published August 2014 and has since been updated. Once the subject of speculation, big data analytics has emerged as a powerful…
Top Apache Spark Use Cases
|March 10, 2016
This post was originally published in July 2015 and has since been expanded and updated. Apache Spark is quickly gaining steam both in the headlines…
Apache Spark vs. Hadoop Which Big Data Framework is the Best Fit?
|December 17, 2015
Apache Hadoop wasn’t just the “elephant in the room”, as some had called it in the early days of big data. Hadoop was the room.…
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