Tableau Business Intelligence Supports Hadoop
Data in todays business is growing at a tremendous rate from web logs, thousands of XML files, or ecommerce data. Hadoop is an emerging technology that can help deal with large volumes of data (sometines known as big data), unstructured data, messy data or indeed all three. Tableau business intelligence software is now providing native support for Apache Hadoop from Cloudera with Tableau 6.1. so now you can analysise your data and create visualisations to understand your data
What's Hadoop?Hadoop is usually used to mean several related technologies—Hadoop, Map/Reduce, and Hive—that can be used together to help you work with that data. Hadoop, together with the Map/Reduce framework, is a distributed system that lets you query across multiple and potentially different data sources at once. Technically, HDFS is the distributed file storage part of the system and map/reduce is the algorithm that processes queries across that system, while Hadoop is the overall technology for managing distributed execution and resilience to node failure. Hive is a technology that essentially lets you run SQL queries across the Hadoop cluster. It includes a number of functions that make it easier to process and transform data from Hadoop.
Why is this important?Data is only getting larger and more complex, with new data sources like web logs, bar code data and more. The most important data is also increasingly found in disparate places- XML files, databases, various unstructured formats. Hadoop is a technology and open source project that is leading the way in dealing with these new mountains of data. Tableau's mission is to help people see and understand data. That includes data that is not handled well by traditional databases, and that's why it's important to support Hadoop.
What is Tableau releasing?Two things:
•A native data connector to Apache Hadoop Hive from Cloudera.
•A new set of string functions that work with Hadoop and Hive on a variety of data sources, including XML.
How can I try it?Download a Free Trial of Tableau and contact MXI for support