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SAP Lumira Essentials

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SAP Lumira Essentials

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (14 chapters)
SAP Lumira Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Big data source


It is not a secret that technologies such as Apache Hadoop are very popular with organizations because it is scalable, cheap, and relatively easy to get data into Hadoop. There are plenty of tools for getting data into different formats, and there are some tools that give us the opportunity to get data from Hadoop via SQL, such as Apache Hive or Cloudera Impala.

Note

Apache Hadoop is an open source software project that enables distributed storing and processing of large data sets across clusters of commodity servers.

Apache Hive is a data warehouse infrastructure built on top of Apache Hadoop for providing data summarization, query, and analysis. Cloudera Impala is Cloudera's open source Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) SQL query engine for data stored in a computer cluster running Apache Hadoop.

SAP Lumira is a modern data discovery tool which is designed to work with big data. It is pretty much the same to query Hadoop via SQL with Hive or Impala. And you can try to do...