Property Graph in Oracle 12.2
The latest release of Oracle (12.2) includes support for Property Graph, previously available only as part of the Big Data Spatial and Graph tool. Unlike »
Rittman Mead at BIWA Summit 2017
I'm excited to be attending my first ever BIWA Summit next week (which will take me to Oracle HQ at Redwood Shores for the first time »
Data Processing and Enrichment in Spark Streaming with Python and Kafka
In my previous blog post I introduced Spark Streaming and how it can be used to process 'unbounded' datasets. The example I did was a very »
Getting Started with Spark Streaming, Python, and Kafka
Last month I wrote a series of articles in which I looked at the use of Spark for performing data transformation and manipulation. This was in »
ETL Offload with Spark and Amazon EMR - Part 5 - Summary
This is the final article in a series documenting an exercise that we undertook for a client recently. Currently running an Oracle-based datawarehouse platform, the client »
ETL Offload with Spark and Amazon EMR - Part 4 - Analysing the Data
We recently did a project we did for a client, exploring the benefits of Spark-based ETL processing running on Amazon's Elastic Map Reduce (EMR) Hadoop platform. »
ETL Offload with Spark and Amazon EMR - Part 3 - Running pySpark on EMR
In the previous articles (here, and here) I gave the background to a project we did for a client, exploring the benefits of Spark-based ETL processing »
ETL Offload with Spark and Amazon EMR - Part 2 - Code development with Notebooks and Docker
In the previous article I gave the background to a project we did for a client, exploring the benefits of Spark-based ETL processing running on Amazon's »
ETL Offload with Spark and Amazon EMR - Part 1 - Introduction
We recently undertook a two-week Proof of Concept exercise for a client, evaluating whether their existing ETL processing could be done faster and more cheaply using »
Source Control and Automated Code Deployment Options for OBIEE
It's Monday morning. I've arrived at a customer site to help them - ironically enough - with automating their OBIEE code management. But, on arrival, I'm »