The Case for ETL in the Cloud - CAPEX vs OPEX
Recently Oracle announced a new cloud service for Oracle Data Integrator. Because I was helping our sales team by doing some estimates and statements of work, »
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 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 »
Becky's BI Apps Corner: OBIA 11.1.1.10.2 New Features Part 1 - Health Check & ETL Diagnostics
I have been working with BI Applications since OBIA switched to ODI in version 11.1.1.7.0. I have installed and worked with all »
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 »