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Published inOct 2021
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Sreeram Nudurupati
Sreeram Nudurupati
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Sreeram Nudurupati

Sreeram Nudurupati is a data analytics professional with years of experience in designing and optimizing data analytics pipelines at scale. He has a history of helping enterprises, as well as digital natives, build optimized analytics pipelines by using the knowledge of the organization, infrastructure environment, and current technologies.
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Spark connectivity to BI tools

In the era of big data and artificial intelligence (AI), Hadoop and Spark have modernized data warehouses into distributed warehouses that can process up to petabytes (PB) of data. Thus, BI tools have also evolved to utilize Hadoop- and Spark-based analytical stores as their data sources, connecting to them using JDBC/ODBC. BI tools ranging from Tableau, Looker, Sisense, MicroStrategy, Domo, and so on all feature connectivity support and built-in drivers to Apache Hive and Spark SQL. In this section, we will explore how you can connect a BI tool such as Tableau Online with Databricks Community Edition, via a JDBC connection.

Tableau Online is a BI platform fully hosted in the cloud that lets you perform data analytics, publish reports and dashboards, and create interactive visualizations, all from a web browser. The following steps describe the process of connecting Tableau Online with Databricks Community Edition:

  1. If you already have an existing...
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Essential PySpark for Scalable Data Analytics
Published in: Oct 2021Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781800568877

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Sreeram Nudurupati

Sreeram Nudurupati is a data analytics professional with years of experience in designing and optimizing data analytics pipelines at scale. He has a history of helping enterprises, as well as digital natives, build optimized analytics pipelines by using the knowledge of the organization, infrastructure environment, and current technologies.
Read more about Sreeram Nudurupati