Category Archives: hadoop

Installing Apache Zeppelin 0.7.3 in HDP 2.5.3 with Spark and Spark2 Interpreters

Posted on October 10, 2017 by Paul Hernandez

Background As a recent client requirement I needed to propose a solution in order to add spark2 as interpreter to zeppelin in HDP (Hortonworks Data Platform) 2.5.3 The first hurdle is, HDP 2.5.3 comes with zeppelin 0.6.0 which does not … Continue reading →

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Connect to Hive using Teradata Studio 16

Posted on January 25, 2017 by Paul Hernandez

Introduction Teradata Studio is the client used to perform database administration task on Aster and Teradata databases, as well as moving data from and to Hadoop. Recently I was asked to test a solution to integrate Hadoop with Teradata in … Continue reading →

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Export data to Hadoop using Polybase – Insert into external table

Posted on June 16, 2016 by Paul Hernandez

Introduction This post is a continuation of Polybase Query Service and Hadoop – Welcome SQL Server 2016 One of the most interesting use cases of Polybase is the ability to store historical data from relational databases into a Hadoop File System. … Continue reading →

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Polybase Query Service and Hadoop – Welcome SQL Server 2016

Posted on May 29, 2016 by Paul Hernandez

Introduction One of the coolest features of SQL Server 2016 is Polybase. Already available for Parallel Data Warehouse, this functionality is now integrated in SQL Server 2016 and allows to combine relational and non-relational data, for example, query data in … Continue reading →

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My experience building Hadoop 2.7.1 on Windows Server 2012

Posted on May 8, 2016 by Paul Hernandez

Introduction Building the Hadoop sources on windows could be cumbersome even when the official documentation states: “… building a Windows package from the sources is fairly straightforward”. There are several good resources containing the steps needed in order to successfully … Continue reading →

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