Chicago Area Hadoop User Group (CHUG): A Night of SQL on Hadoop (June 21, 2016)
June 21, 2016
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM
From the promotional materials:
'SQL on Hadoop'
As more corporations are moving to mainstream their Hadoop clusters, there is an increased interest in providing Business Intelligence (BI) functionality. SQL on Hadoop is one of the top interests as corporations try to gain more value from their data lakes.
Please join us for a talk that introduces us to the concept of ‘SQL on Hadoop’, the various vendors and their query engines, and how to be effective producing OLAP cubes on Hadoop.
About the Speaker:
Chris Oshiro is a 17 year veteran in the BI space. Chris brings a unique view of the software landscape as a result of wearing several hats during his career. Mr. Oshiro has worked for 5 different analytics companies and currently runs the pre-sales organization for AtScale Inc.
- Chris Oshiro didn't make it, as his client pulled him away
- Bob Kelly, also from AtScale, was his replacement for the talk, and has been doing business intelligence for 23 years
- Bob started using Crystal Reports, then "Forest and Trees"