Ibotta Builds a Cost-Efficient, Self-Service Data Lake Using Qubole
|April 2, 2019
This blog is a customer guest post written by Ibotta. Ibotta is a mobile technology company that is transforming the traditional rebates industry by providing…
Shefali Aggarwal
Using Spot Nodes in Presto on Qubole Without Sacrificing Reliability
|March 29, 2019
Two key criteria that everyone looks for in a query engine for interactive analytics are performance and cost. You want best-in-class performance to meet the…
Introducing Kinesis Connector for Structured Streaming
|March 21, 2019
Structured Streaming API, introduced in Apache Spark version 2.0, enables developers to create stream processing applications. These APIs are different from DStream-based legacy Spark Streaming…
Dive into Your Data Lake with Self-Service Analytics
|March 20, 2019
The concept of self-service is one that dominates much of our lives today — we can ring up our own groceries, pump our gas, and…
A Tale of Two Reports: Why Qubole Is a “High Performer” and a “Strong Contender”
|March 14, 2019
We recently concluded our fiscal year on January 31st, and while there is always more to do and room for improvement, FY 2019 was a…
How to Configure and Leverage Resource Groups in Presto
|March 7, 2019
A Presto resource group is an admission control and workload management mechanism that manages resource allocation. The resource group mechanism ensures that groups using more…
Reliable Structured Streaming on the Cloud with Direct Write Checkpointing
|March 5, 2019
Structured Streaming (SS) is one of the core components of Apache Spark. As part of the Spark on Qubole offering, our customers can build and…
Customize Presto on Qubole with Presto Server Bootstrap
|February 28, 2019
Node Startup Process in Qubole Data Service (QDS) In QDS, when a cluster is started, a “node startup process” runs on each provisioned node and…
Introducing Role-Based Access Control in Apache Airflow
|February 26, 2019
This blog post is written by Sumit Maheshwari, an Engineering Manager at Qubole, and Aaditya Sharma, who is interning with Qubole in the ETL team.…
Simplifying User Access in Presto with File-Based Authentication
|February 21, 2019
Presto provides enterprise-grade user authentication mechanisms like LDAP and Kerberos, but a lot of users do not want to go through the complexity of setting…
Using Query Conversions to Track Historical Results with Qubole Presto
|February 19, 2019
While running Presto queries in Qubole Data Service (QDS), if you’ve ever opened the Query Tracker link you must have noticed that your queries run…
Spark Streaming
|February 14, 2019
This post is a guest publication written by Yaroslav Tkachenko, a Software Architect at Activision. DStreams vs. DataFrames: Two Flavors of Spark Streaming Apache Spark…
