Have you looked at Kylin? http://www.ebaytechblog.com/2014/10/20/announcing-kylin-extreme-olap-engine-for-big-data/#.VOtXUUsqnUk
Pretty new but has the backing of eBay. On 23 Feb 2015, at 15:38, Denny Lee <denny.g....@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > Sent: 22/02/2015 17:56 > To: Ashic Mahtab; Francisco Orchard; Apache Spark > 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
