Karmasphere Studio Community Edition
From the webpage:
Karmasphere Studio Community Edition is the free edition of our graphical development environment that facilitates learning Hadoop MapReduce jobs. It supports the prototyping, developing, and testing phases of the Hadoop development lifecycle.
The parallel and parameterized queries features in their Analyst product attracted me to the site:
From the webpage:
According to Karmasphere, the updated version of Analyst offers a parallel query capability that they say will make it faster for data analysts to iteratively query their data and create visualizations. The company claims that the new update allows data analysts to submit queries, view results, submit a new set and then compare those results across the previous outputs. In essence, this means users can run an unlimited number of queries concurrently on Hadoop so that one or more data sets can be viewed while the others are being generated.
Karmasphere also says that the introduction of parameterized queries allows users to submit their queries as they go, while offering them output in easy-to-read graphical representations of the findings, in Excel spreadsheets, or across a number of other outside reporting tools.
Hey, it says “…in Excel spreadsheets,” do you think they are reading my blog? (Spreadsheet -> Topic Maps: Wrong Direction? 😉 I didn’t really think so either.) I do take that as validation of the idea that offering users a familiar interface is more likely to be successful than an unfamiliar one.