ESG reporting is rapidly becoming a key focus area for finance teams around the world. ESG stands for “environmental, social, and governance.” It’s a set of standards through which companies can report metrics that indicate how well their activities align with issues of environmental stewardship and social issues. In late 2021, the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) announced the creation of a new ESG reporting standard.
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.
Modern businesses are increasingly relying on real-time insights to stay ahead of their competition. Whether it's to expedite human decision-making or fully automate decisions, such insights require the ability to run hybrid transactional analytical workloads that often involve multiple data sources. BigQuery is Google Cloud’s serverless, multi-cloud data warehouse that simplifies analytics by bringing together data from multiple sources.
Apache Spark with its rich data APIs has been the processing engine of choice in a wide range of applications from data engineering to machine learning, but its security integration has been a pain point.t Many enterprise customers needi finer granularity of control, in particular at the column and row level (commonly known as Fine Grained Access Control or FGAC).
