Re: Need advice for Spark newbie

2015-02-26 Thread Dean Wampler
There's no support for star or snowflake models, per se. What you get with Hadoop is access to all your data and the processing power to build the ad hoc queries you want, when you need them, rather than having to figure out a schema/model in advance. I recommend that you also ask your questions o

Re: Need advice for Spark newbie

2015-02-26 Thread Vikram Kone
r data into a wasb you can try all three > methods and see which one works best for you. HDInsights works well for > mixing & matching tools. > > > > HTH, > > - SteveN > > > > -Original Message- > From: Dean Wampler [mailto:deanwamp..

Re: Need advice for Spark newbie

2015-02-26 Thread Vikram Kone
Dean Thanks for the info. Are you saying that we can create star/snowflake data models using spark so they can be queried from tableau ? On Thursday, February 26, 2015, Dean Wampler wrote: > Historically, many orgs. have replaced data warehouses with Hadoop > clusters and used Hive along with Im

RE: Need advice for Spark newbie

2015-02-26 Thread Steve Nunez
e methods and see which one works best for you. HDInsights works well for mixing & matching tools. HTH, - SteveN -Original Message- From: Dean Wampler [mailto:deanwamp...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, 26 February, 2015 8:54 To: Vikram Kone Cc: dev@spark.apache.org Subjec

Re: Need advice for Spark newbie

2015-02-26 Thread Dean Wampler
Historically, many orgs. have replaced data warehouses with Hadoop clusters and used Hive along with Impala (on Cloudera deployments) or Drill (on MapR deployments) for SQL. Hive is older and slower, while Impala and Drill are newer and faster, but you typically need both for their complementary fe