Analytics Archives - Microsoft Open Source Blog

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November 12, 2020

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2 min read

Cloudera Data Platform’s integration with Azure delivers enterprise security and governance

By Chris Van Dyke, Principal Solution Engineer at Cloudera

Modern analytics and the resulting business insights unlock new opportunities to optimize company performance and open new revenue…

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June 30, 2020

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1 min read

Hyperspace, an indexing subsystem for Apache Spark™, is now open source

By Rahul Potharaju, Principal Engineering Manager, Microsoft Azure Data Group

For Microsoft’s internal teams and external customers, we store datasets that span from a few GBs to 100s…

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June 23, 2020

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2 min read

What’s new in SandDance 3

By Dan Marshall, Principal Research Software Development Engineer

SandDance, the open source data visualization tool from Microsoft Research, is launching several new features in version 3.…

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October 10, 2019

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2 min read

Microsoft open sources SandDance, a visual data exploration tool

By Dan Marshall, Principal Research Software Development Engineer

SandDance, the beloved data visualization tool from Microsoft Research, has been re-released as an open source project on…

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August 13, 2019

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8 min read

Trill 103: Ingress, Egress, and Trill’s notion of time

By James Terwilliger, Principal Software Engineer

Congratulations! You’ve made it to the next installment of our overview of Trill, Microsoft’s open source streaming data…

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July 1, 2019

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4 min read

AzureR now available: Create, manage, and monitor Azure services with R

By Hong Ooi, Senior Data Scientist
David Smith, Cloud Developer Advocate

AzureR, a family of packages that provides tools to manage Azure resources from the open source R language,…

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May 1, 2019

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5 min read

Trill 102: Temporal Joins

By James Terwilliger, Principal Software Engineer

This post is the second in a sequence intended to introduce developers to the Trill streaming query engine,…

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April 16, 2019

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4 min read

Microsoft open sources Data Accelerator for Apache Spark

By Geoff Staneff, Principal Program Manager
Dinesh Chandnani, Principal Group Engineering Manager

Welcome to Data Accelerator! Data Accelerator for Apache Spark simplifies streaming big data using Spark. Data Accelerator has…

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March 28, 2019

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6 min read

Trill 101: how to add temporal queries to your applications

By James Terwilliger, Principal Software Engineer

Last December, we released Trill, an open source .NET library designed to process one trillion events a day.…

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December 17, 2018

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1 min read

Microsoft open sources Trill, a powerful query processor for analytics at incredible speeds

By James Terwilliger, Principal Software Engineer

In today’s demanding business environment, processing massive amounts of data each millisecond is becoming a common business requirement.…

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July 9, 2018

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23 min read

How to process streams of data with Apache Kafka and Spark

By Lena Hall, Alena is a Senior Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft working on Azure, where she focuses on big data and large-scale distributed systems. Previously, she's worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft Research. Alena has more than 10 years of experience in the software engineering industry with a focus on distributed cloud programming, real-time system architecture, high load and performance, big data analysis, functional programming, and machine learning. She is an elected member of the F# Software Foundation’s Board of Trustees and holds a Master's degree in Computer Science and Information Technology.

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