Bad news: In 2011, West Texas Intermediate Crude (WTI) was trading at $90 a barrel. Today, it’s hovering around $40. That price volatility is a long-term signature of the petroleum industry. Very good news: data analytics and reporting can reduce these economic risks...
In this tutorial, you will learn the basics of data ingestion using Hortonworks Hadoop with Sqoop and Flume. Apache Sqoop was designed to transfer data between Hadoop and relational database servers, such as MySQL, and Oracle to Hadoop HDFS. Apache Flume is a...
What Is Data Governance Data governance is one of the many buzz words we encounter these days. One might argue that it’s hype, but I don’t think so. It’s top of mind for many good reasons, some of which we mention below. Data governance is an umbrella term,...
Sooner or later, it had to happen. The promise of big data analytics and a growing appetite to use it has led to a demand for BDA projects throughout organizations. But the enthusiasm is muted by uncoordinated experiments and campaigns that lead to unintended...