Z-order is an ordering for multi-dimensional data, e.g. rows in a database table. Once data is in Z-order it is possible to efficiently search against more columns. This article reveals how Z-ordering works and how one can use it with Apache Impala. In a previous blog post, we demonstrated the power of Parquet page indexes, […]
Apache Ozone is a scalable distributed object store that can efficiently manage billions of small and large files. Ozone natively provides Amazon S3 and Hadoop Filesystem compatible endpoints in addition to its own native object store API endpoint and is designed to work seamlessly with enterprise scale data warehousing, machine learning and streaming workloads. The […]
Introduction Many Cloudera customers are making the transition from being completely on-prem to cloud by either backing up their data in the cloud, or running multi-functional analytics on CDP Public cloud in AWS or Azure. The Replication Manager service facilitates both disaster recovery and data migration across different environments. Using easy-to-define policies, Replication Manager solves […]
Do you need faster time to value? Does your organization’s success depend on immediate delivery of new reports, applications, or projects? When you go to Central IT for support, are you blocked by insanely long wait times for the resources needed to meet your business goals? If so – you are likely one of the […]
Introduction Cloud data warehouses allow users to run analytic workloads with greater agility, better isolation and scale, and lower administrative overhead than ever before. With the ability to quickly provision on-demand and the lower fixed and administrative costs, the costs of operating a cloud data warehouse are driven mostly by the price-performance of the specific […]
Introduction In database systems one of the most effective ways to improve performance is to avoid doing unnecessary work, such as network transfers and reading data from disk. One of the ways Apache Kudu achieves this is by supporting column predicates with scanners. Pushing down column predicate filters to Kudu allows for optimized execution by […]
2020 was a year of immense change and disruption. Despite the challenges, 2020 also provided positive opportunities for forward leaps to be made in the realm of digital transformation. At Cloudera, an example of this leap is our first virtual Data Impact Awards, which was held in November last year. One of our stand out […]
This is part of our series of blog posts on recent enhancements to Impala. The entire collection is available here. Apache Impala is synonymous with high-performance processing of extremely large datasets, but what if our data isn’t huge? What if our queries are very selective? The reality is that data warehousing contains a large variety […]
Users today are asking ever more from their data warehouse. This is resulting in advancements of what is provided by the technology, and a resulting shift in the art of the possible. As an example of this, in this post we look at Real Time Data Warehousing (RTDW), which is a category of use cases […]