Mark Rittman

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Introducing Oracle Big Data Discovery Part 1: "The Visual Face of Hadoop"

Oracle Big Data Discovery [https://www.oracle.com/bigdata/big-data-discovery/index.html] was released last week, the latest addition to Oracle's big data tools suite that includes Oracle Big Data SQL [http://www.rittmanmead.com/tag/big-data-sql/], ODI and it’s Hadoop capabilities [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/

Rittman Mead BI Forum Abstract Voting Now Open - For One Week Only!

The call for papers for the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 closed a couple of weeks ago and we’ve had some excellent submissions on topics ranging from OBIEE, Visualizations and data discovery through to in-memory analytics, cloud, big data and data integration. As always, we’re now opening up

Data Lineage and Impact Analysis in Oracle BI Apps 11.1.1.8.1

In yesterday’s post I took a look at one of the new features in the 11.1.1.8.1 release of the BI Applications; integration between BI Apps 11g and Oracle Endeca Information Discovery [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2015/01/endeca-information-discovery-integration-with-oracle-bi-apps-11-1-1-8-1/] . Whilst we’re on the topic

Endeca Information Discovery Integration with Oracle BI Apps 11.1.1.8.1

One of the new features that made its way into Oracle BI Apps 11.1.1.8.1 [https://blogs.oracle.com/proactivesupportEPM/entry/biapps_111181_whatsnew], and that completely passed me by at the time, was integration with Oracle Endeca Information Discovery 3.1 [http://www.oracle.com/us/

Rittman Mead at BIWA Summit 2015

I’m writing this in my hotel room in downtown San Francisco, with my colleague Francesco Tisiot flying in tonight and US colleagues Jordan Meyer, Daniel Adams and Andy Rocha travelling down tomorrow and Monday for next week's BIWA Summit 2015 [http://www.ioug.org/biwasummit]. The Business

Rittman Mead's Development Cluster, EM12c and the Blue Mendora VMware EM Plugin

For development and testing purposes, Rittman Mead run a VMWare VSphere cluster made up of a number of bare-metal servers hosting Linux, Windows and other VMs. Our setup has grown over the years from a bunch of VMs running on Mac Mini servers [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/08/

Using Oracle Big Data SQL to Add Dimensions and Attributes to Hadoop Reporting

In a previous post I looked at using Oracle’s new Big Data SQL product with ODI12c [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/10/using-oracle-big-data-sql-odi12c-hive/], where I used Big Data SQL [http://www.oracle.com/us/products/database/big-data-sql/overview/index.html] to expose two Hive tables as Oracle external

Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 Call for Papers Now Open - Closes on Jan 18th 2015

The Call for Papers for the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 [https://docs.google.com/a/rittmanmead.com/forms/d/18XWPmrzr3te55rloDJyB8vFP9j8AUNKKryvOToGHBlA/viewform] is currently open, with abstract submissions open to January 18th 2015. As in previous years the BI Forum will run over consecutive weeks in Brighton, UK and Atlanta,

Connecting OBIEE11g on Windows to a Kerberos-Secured CDH5 Hadoop Cluster using Cloudera HiveServer2 ODBC Drivers

In a few previous posts and magazine articles [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/issue-archive/2014/14-sep/o54ba-2279189.html] I’ve covered connecting OBIEE11g to a Hadoop cluster [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/01/obiee-11-1-1-7-cloudera-hadoop-hiveimpala-part-2-load-data-into-hivehcatalog-analyze-using-impala/] , using OBIEE 11.1.1.7 and Cloudera CDH4 and CDH5 as the examples. Things

Happy Christmas from Rittman Mead, and Where To Find Us in 2015

It’s the day before Christmas Eve over in the UK, and we’re finishing up for the Christmas break and looking forward to seeing friends and family over the next few days. To all of our readers, customers, friends and partners, have a great Holiday season and New Year,

OBIEE and ODI on Hadoop : Next-Generation Initiatives To Improve Hive Performance

The other week I posted a three-part series (part 1 [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/12/going-beyond-mapreduce-for-hadoop-etl-pt-1-why-mapreduce-is-only-for-batch-processing/] , part 2 [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/12/going-beyond-mapreduce-for-hadoop-etl-pt-2-introducing-apache-yarn-and-apache-tez/] and part 3 [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/12/going-beyond-mapreduce-for-hadoop-etl-pt-3-introducing-apache-spark/] ) on going beyond MapReduce for Hadoop-based ETL, where I l

Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 Call for Papers Now Open!

I’m very pleased to announce that the Call for Papers for the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 [https://docs.google.com/a/rittmanmead.com/forms/d/18XWPmrzr3te55rloDJyB8vFP9j8AUNKKryvOToGHBlA/viewform] is now open, with abstract submissions open to January 18th 2015. As in previous years the BI Forum will run over

Going Beyond MapReduce for Hadoop ETL Pt.3 : Introducing Apache Spark

In the first two posts in this three part series on going beyond MapReduce for Hadoop ETL, we looked at why MapReduce and Hadoop 1.0 was only really suitable for batch processing, and how the new Apache Tez framework enabled by Apache YARN on the Hadoop 2.0 platform

Going Beyond MapReduce for Hadoop ETL Pt.2 : Introducing Apache YARN and Apache Tez

In the first post [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/12/going-beyond-mapreduce-for-hadoop-etl-pt-1-why-mapreduce-is-only-for-batch-processing/] in this three part series on going beyond MapReduce for Hadoop ETL, I looked at how a typical Apache Pig script gets compiled into a series of MapReduce jobs, and those MapReduce jobs pass data between themselves by

Going Beyond MapReduce for Hadoop ETL Pt.1 : Why MapReduce Is Only for Batch Processing

Over the previous few months I’ve been looking at the various ways you can load data into Hadoop, process it and then report on it using Oracle tools [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/11/why-odi-dw-and-obiee-developers-should-be-interested-in-hadoop/] . We’ve looked at Apache Hive and how it provides a SQL layer

Rittman Mead Founder Member of the Red Expert Alliance

At Rittman Mead we’re always keen to collaborate with our peers and partners in the Oracle industry, running events such as the BI Forum in Brighton and Atlanta each year and speaking at user groups in the UK, Europe, USA and around the world. We were pleased therefore to

Adding Oracle Big Data SQL to ODI12c to Enhance Hive Data Transformations

An updated version of the Oracle BigDataLite VM [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/bigdata-appliance/oracle-bigdatalite-2104726.html] came out a couple of weeks ago, and as well as updating the core Cloudera CDH software to the latest release it also included Oracle Big Data SQL [http://www.oracle.com/us/

News and Updates from Oracle Openworld 2014

It’s the Saturday after Oracle Openworld 2014 [http://www.oracle.com/openworld], and I’m now home from San Francisco and back in the UK. It’s been a great week as usual, with lots of product announcements and updates to the BI, DW and Big Data products we

EPM and BI Meetup at Next Week's Openworld (and details of our Oracle DI Speakeasy)

Just a short note to help publicise the Oracle Openworld 2014 EPM and BI Meetup [http://www.meetup.com/Oracle-Open-World-Essbase-EPM-meetup/events/205491072/] that’s running next week, organised by Cameron Lackpour and Tim Tow from the ODTUG board. This is an excellent opportunity for EPM and BI developers and customers