Makes complete sense - I became a fan of Spark for pretty much the same reasons. Best of luck, eh?!
On Mon Feb 23 2015 at 12:08:49 AM Francisco Orchard <forch...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Denny & Ashic, > > You are putting us on the right direction. Thanks! > > We will try following your advice and provide feeback to the list. > > Regarding your question Denny. We feel MS is lacking on an scalable > solution for SSAS (tabular or multidim) so when it comes to big data, the > only answer they have is their expensive appliance (APS) which can be used > as a rolap engine. We are interesting into testing how Spark escalate to > check if it can be offered as an less expensive alternative when a single > machine is not enough to our client needs. The reason why we do not go with > tabular in the first place is because its rolap mode (direct query) is > still too limited. And thanks for writing the klout paper!! We were already > using it as a guideline for our tests. > > Best regards, > Francisco > ------------------------------ > From: Denny Lee <denny.g....@gmail.com> > Sent: 22/02/2015 17:56 > To: Ashic Mahtab <as...@live.com>; Francisco Orchard <forch...@gmail.com>; > Apache Spark <user@spark.apache.org> > Subject: Re: Spark SQL odbc on Windows > > Back to thrift, there was an earlier thread on this topic at > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/spark-user/201411.mbox/%3CCABPQxsvXA-ROPeXN=wjcev_n9gv-drqxujukbp_goutvnyx...@mail.gmail.com%3E > that may be useful as well. > > On Sun Feb 22 2015 at 8:42:29 AM Denny Lee <denny.g....@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Francisco, >> >> Out of curiosity - why ROLAP mode using multi-dimensional mode (vs >> tabular) from SSAS to Spark? As a past SSAS guy you've definitely piqued my >> interest. >> >> The one thing that you may run into is that the SQL generated by SSAS can >> be quite convoluted. When we were doing the same thing to try to get SSAS >> to connect to Hive (ref paper at >> http://download.microsoft.com/download/D/2/0/D20E1C5F-72EA-4505-9F26-FEF9550EFD44/MOLAP2HIVE_KLOUT.docx) >> that was definitely a blocker. Note that Spark SQL is different than HIVEQL >> but you may run into the same issue. If so, the trick you may want to use >> is similar to the paper - use a SQL Server linked server connection and >> have SQL Server be your "translator" for the SQL generated by SSAS. >> >> HTH! >> Denny >> >> On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 01:44 Ashic Mahtab <as...@live.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi Francisco, >>> While I haven't tried this, have a look at the contents of >>> start-thriftserver.sh - all it's doing is setting up a few variables and >>> calling: >>> >>> /bin/spark-submit --class org.apache.spark.sql.hive. >>> thriftserver.HiveThriftServer2 >>> >>> and passing some additional parameters. Perhaps doing the same would >>> work? >>> >>> I also believe that this hosts a jdbc server (not odbc), but there's a >>> free odbc connector from databricks built by Simba, with which I've been >>> able to connect to a spark cluster hosted on linux. >>> >>> -Ashic. >>> >>> ------------------------------ >>> To: user@spark.apache.org >>> From: forch...@gmail.com >>> Subject: Spark SQL odbc on Windows >>> Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 09:45:03 +0100 >>> >>> >>> Hello, >>> I work on a MS consulting company and we are evaluating including SPARK >>> on our BigData offer. We are particulary interested into testing SPARK as >>> rolap engine for SSAS but we cannot find a way to activate the odbc server >>> (thrift) on a Windows custer. There is no start-thriftserver.sh command >>> available for windows. >>> >>> Somebody knows if there is a way to make this work? >>> >>> Thanks in advance!! >>> Francisco >>> >>
