Rittman Mead at Kscope 2017
Rittman Mead will be well represented in San Antonio, Texas next week for Kscope 17 with some of our best from both sides of the Atlantic! »
A focus on Higher Education, HEDW 2017
First, before I get into a great week of Higher Education Data Warehousing and analytics discussions, I want to thank the HEDW board and their membership. »
Join Rittman Mead at the 2017 BIWA Summit!
We invite you to come join us at the annual 2017 BIWA Summit. This year we are proud to announce that Robin Moffatt, Head of Research »
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 »
Using logdump to Troubleshoot the Oracle GoldenGate for Big Data Kafka Handler
Oracle GoldenGate for Big Data (OGG BD) supports sending transactions as messages to Kafka topics, both through the native Oracle handler as well as a connector »
An Introduction to Apache Drill
Apache Drill is an engine that can connect to many different data sources, and provide a SQL interface to them. It's not just a wanna-be SQL »
Stream Analytics and Processing with Kafka and Oracle Stream Analytics
In my previous post I looked the latest release of Oracle Stream Analytics (OSA), and saw how it provided a graphical interface to "Fast Data". Users »
An Introduction to Oracle Stream Analytics
Oracle Stream Analytics (OSA) is a graphical tool that provides “Business Insight into Fast Data”. In layman terms, that translates into an intuitive web-based interface for »
Using R with Jupyter Notebooks and Oracle Big Data Discovery
Oracle's Big Data Discovery encompasses a good amount of exploration, transformation, and visualisation capabilities for datasets residing in your organisation’s data reservoir. Even with »
Using SparkSQL and Pandas to Import Data into Hive and Big Data Discovery
Big Data Discovery (BDD) is a great tool for exploring, transforming, and visualising data stored in your organisation’s Data Reservoir. I presented a workshop »