SQL for Data Warehousing and Analytics

Over the past couple of weeks I have been looking at one of the Apache open source projects called Zeppelin . It’s a new style of application called a “ notebook ” which typically runs within your browser. The idea behind notebook-style applications like Zeppelin is to deliver an adhoc data-discovery tool - at least that is how I see it being used . Like most notebook-style applications, Zeppelin provides a number of useful data-discovery features such as: a simple way to ingest data access to languages that help with data discovery and data analytics some basic data visualization tools a set of collaboration services for sharing notebooks ( collections of reports ) Zeppelin is essentially a scripting environment for running ordinary SQL statements along with a lot of other languages such as Spark, Python, Hive, R etc. These are controlled by a feature called “interpreters” and there is a list of the latest interpreters available here . A good example of a notebook-type ...