Simplified Data Pipelines with Kudu

Posted 11 Sep 2018 by Mac Noland

I’ve been working with Hadoop now for over seven years and fortunately, or unfortunately, have run across a lot of structured data use cases. What we, at phData, have found is that end users are typically comfortable with tabular data and prefer to access their data in a structured manner using tables.

Getting Started with Kudu - an O'Reilly Title

Posted 06 Aug 2018 by Brock Noland

The following article by Brock Noland was reposted from the phData blog with their permission.

Five years ago, enabling Data Science and Advanced Analytics on the Hadoop platform was hard. Organizations required strong Software Engineering capabilities to successfully implement complex Lambda architectures or even simply implement continuous ingest. Updating or deleting data, were simply a nightmare. General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) would have been an extreme challenge at that time.

Instrumentation in Apache Kudu

Posted 10 Jul 2018 by Todd Lipcon

Last week, the OpenTracing community invited me to their monthly Google Hangout meetup to give an informal talk on tracing and instrumentation in Apache Kudu.

While Kudu doesn’t currently support distributed tracing using OpenTracing, it does have quite a lot of other types of instrumentation, metrics, and diagnostics logging. The OpenTracing team was interested to hear about some of the approaches that Kudu has used, and so I gave a brief introduction to topics including:

Apache Kudu 1.7.0 released

Posted 23 Mar 2018 by Grant Henke

The Apache Kudu team is happy to announce the release of Kudu 1.7.0!

Apache Kudu 1.7.0 is a minor release that offers new features, performance optimizations, incremental improvements, and bug fixes.

Release highlights:

Apache Kudu 1.6.0 released

Posted 08 Dec 2017 by Mike Percy

The Apache Kudu team is happy to announce the release of Kudu 1.6.0!

Apache Kudu 1.6.0 is a minor release that offers new features, performance optimizations, incremental improvements, and bug fixes.

Release highlights: