kscope18 Kscope18: It's a Wrap! As announced few weeks back I represented Rittman Mead at ODTUG's Kscope18 [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2018/05/rittman-mead-at-kscope-2018/] hosted in the magnificent Walt Disney World Dolphin Resort [https://www.swandolphin.com/]. It's always hard to be credible when telling people you are going to
Impala SQL-on-Hadoop: Impala vs Drill I recently wrote a blog post about Oracle's Analytic Views [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2017/04/metadata-modeling-in-the-database-with-analytic-views/] and how those can be used in order to provide a simple SQL interface to end users with data stored in a relational database. In today's post I&
hdfs An Introduction to Apache Drill Apache Drill [https://drill.apache.org/] 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 interface that trips over at anything complex - it's a hugely functional one [https://drill.apache.
