This technical overview paper explains what an analytical platform is, how to achieve true parallelism and goes into detail about the different deployment options for Kognitio. It also details the technology features and capabilities of Kognitio.
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In this Market Report, Philip Howard at Bloor explores the growing need for SQL engines on Hadoop. This might seem contrary to Hadoop’s NoSQL roots but the truth is that there are lots of existing investments in SQL applications that companies want to preserve; all the leading business intelligence and analytics platforms run using SQL; and SQL skills, capabilities and developers are readily available, which is often not the case for other languages.
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Can Hadoop be the best BI platform for your business users? Anybody trying to do BI on Hadoop expects to run into problems. Speed, scale, performance, you name it, but providing your business users aggregated subsets of data on another platform means their answers might be out of date.
Your BI users need fast, meaningful answers from data stored Hadoop, but it’s too slow. Our white paper explains how all your business users can get accelerated, interactive insights with their preferred BI tools, directly on Hadoop, even running hundreds of queries concurrently.
From version 2.6 onwards, Hortonworks is shipping Apache Hive 2 LLAP as part of its standard HDP distribution to try to address issues in SQL performance on Hadoop.
We aimed to include Hive in previous SQL on Hadoop tests, but lack of SQL support and poor single thread performance meant it was removed. But with the release of Hive LLAP, we’ve now been able to include it in this recent test.
