When running any performance benchmarking tool on your cluster, a critical decision is always what data set size should be used for a performance test, and here we demonstrate why it is important to select a “good fit” data set size when running a HBase performance test on your cluster.

When it comes to machine learning (ML) in the enterprise, there are many misconceptions about what it actually takes to effectively employ machine learning models and scale AI use cases. When many businesses start their journey into ML and AI, it’s common to place a lot of energy and focus on the coding and data science algorithms themselves.

With any transformation in industry or marketplace, there are leaders and losers. The winners know the fundamental pillars that are hidden to some and evident to others that drive and enable success.

The Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) is the latest Big Data offering from Cloudera. It includes Apache HBase and Phoenix as part of the platform. These two components are provided in 3 form-factors: Cloudera’s Apache HBase customers typically run mission-critical applications that cannot afford any downtime. They need a way to migrate to a new deployment either without a production outage or, at a minimum, a tiny outage.

The role of data in COVID-19 vaccination record keeping Now that the Pfizer vaccine has been approved by the FDA for use in the US, and the Moderna vaccine likely isn’t far behind, we are now on the verge of being able to emerge from the social distancing world that began earlier in 2020. Recent news has talked about distributing a vaccination record card to everyone who gets a COVID-19 vaccine.

We’re excited to share that after adding ANSI SQL, secondary indices, star schema, and view capabilities to Cloudera’s Operational Database, we will be introducing distributed transaction support in the coming months. The ACID model of database design is one of the most important concepts in databases. ACID stands for atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability. For a very long time, strict adherence to these four properties was required for a commercially successful database.

Across nearly every sector working with complex data, Spark has quickly become the de-facto distributed computing framework for teams across the data and analytics lifecycle. One of most awaited features of Spark 3.0 is the new Adaptive Query Execution framework (AQE), which fixes the issues that have plagued a lot of Spark SQL workloads. Those were documented in early 2018 in this blog from a mixed Intel and Baidu team.

If there’s one thing enterprises have learned in 2020, it’s how to navigate through uncertain times, and in 2021, organizations will likely have to continue navigating through a shifting landscape. One trend that we’ve seen this year, is that enterprises are leveraging streaming data as a way to traverse through unplanned disruptions, as a way to make the best business decisions for their stakeholders.

COVID-19 has forced virtually every industry to embrace an acceleration in digital capabilities. While it can be argued that digital transformation was already underway; it’s hard to dispute that it has accelerated in recent months. A recent McKinsey survey, cited in CRN, shows that worldwide, 58 percent of customer interactions were digital as of July 2020.

In a previous blog post on CDW performance, we compared Azure HDInsight to CDW. In this blog post, we compare Cloudera Data Warehouse (CDW) on Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) using Apache Hive-LLAP to EMR 6.0 (also powered by Apache Hive-LLAP) on Amazon using the TPC-DS 2.9 benchmark. Amazon recently announced their latest EMR version 6.1.0 with support for ACID transactions. This benchmark is run on EMR version 6.0 as we couldn’t get queries to run successfully on version 6.1.0.