With the recent release of Pivotal HD, I wanted to check the current state of Hadoop SQL engines. SQL integration is growing in the Hadoop landscape and it’s a good thing for productivity and integration. Despite old and bloated, SQL has still no competition when it comes to data manipulation. I’ve downloaded the latest single node VM from Cloudera and Pivotal and made some tests. Results were quite interesting.
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I’ve spent some time lately to dig into the Hadoop ecosystem both from a product survey and some hands on. Here is some remarks about the state of Hadoop in April 2013. I’ve played with Greenplum HD 1.2 and CDH4.2 and read a lot of stuff about Hadoop and peripherical products.
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Today EMC announced the launch of Pivotal HD, their new version of Greenplum HD. Most of the underlying detail are not know and neither the pricing, but it’s really a game changer. Technologically it’s just Greenplum DB on top of HDFS. In fact we can say it’s just Greenplum DB. It feature an awesome integration with HDFS but that’s it. I believe Greenplum DB will be faster than Pivotal HD on a traditional data warehouse workload. Nothing new here then. For Hadoop, it’s a new day.
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