Hi, Today we are launching a service called the iSight cloud (iSight is short for instant insights), which combines elements of the platform to allow users to create notebooks where you can run queries on your data, and visualize the results in near real time. iSight uses 3 core elements to pull this together:
- The use of Spark as a data unification layer to create samples on external datasets or streaming datasets that are plugged into SnappyData (via Kafka or any other Spark supported mechanism) - The SnappyData Synopsis Data Engine <http://snappydatainc.github.io/snappydata/aqp/> which accepts queries routed to it and returns results orders of magnitude faster, along with accurate error estimates, while optionally running the full query in the background. - Apache Zeppelin <http://zeppelin.apache.org/> (which is fast becoming the de-facto choice for anything notebook related), which uses its SnappyData interpreter to interface with the database and return results and render them on the notebook You can use iSight to build out your own analytic dashboard using SQL queries or the Spark API (and the examples we have provided show you how to build fairly powerful dashboards using the Synopsis Data Engine) iSight runs on AWS (and we are launching it on Azure shortly) and for a limited time (our black Friday special I suppose), we are offering a free trial <http://www.snappydata.io/cloudbuilder/freetrial> where we let you play with the demo notebooks that we have included (so that you can check out these claims for yourself and build your own notebooks), *on our hardware in AWS*. Check it out and give us some feedback. Thanks,
