DataNitro
Data
big data analytics
SHOW HN2013
82points
22comments
#296of 1,739 in 2013
Top 18%of 2013 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
4 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 11 comments about the project. Thread score +0.07.
Idea: 4 for, 1 againstPerformance: 0 for, 2 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful for business users to get reports without involving data engineers
From 2 comments
Did you write your mappers and reducers in java using the hadoop api or does this translate into hiveql or some other higher-level language? Great job btw, this looks super…
pvnick on HNI think this would really benefit from a dead simple tool that would allow users to import from csv files into a local Hadoop instance, without having to do anything besides…
eigenvalue on HN
Could suit many Hadoop use cases
From 1 comment
Funny as this sounds it may be in fact exactly perfect for a large subset of Hadoop use-cases. If it works well.
staunch on HN
Objections
Excel row limit of about one million rows
From 2 comments
Ummmm...doesn't Excel have a row limit of somewhere around 1 million?
jackmaney on HNCan Excel open a 1-billion-row data file?
wbsun on HN
Excel is a poor tool for serious analysis
From 2 comments
While impressive in terms of a technical achievement, Excel is a pretty appalling analysis tool generally. I fear for what it will turn into when you throw this much at it. Big…
Fomite on HNWhich is why I'm not besmirching your technical achievement as much as...Excel is widely abused by the ignorant, Big Data is widely abused by the ignorant...Hadoop in Excel...
Fomite on HN
Requests
Support for Impala and Presto
From 1 comment
Thanks! We're working directly in Java right now, but might explore alternatives later. We're also planning to add support for Impala/Presto/etc.
karamazov on HN
CSV import into a local Hadoop instance
From 1 comment
I think this would really benefit from a dead simple tool that would allow users to import from csv files into a local Hadoop instance, without having to do anything besides…
eigenvalue on HN
Questions
Latency expectations
From 1 comment
What are you using on the back-end to perform the queries? Are you using MapReduce? What is the average latency expectations when using the application?
monstrado on HN
How it differs from Power Query
From 1 comment
Being pretty naive to the space, I'm assuming the killer differentiator from Microsoft's own Power Query (which looks like it can pull from Hadoop) is that this pulls a subset of…
prawks on HN
How it compares to Datameer
From 1 comment
I've seen demos of a tool called Datameer which seems to offer very similar functionality (an Excel-like interface for configuring a job on a small set of data, followed by…
RobGoretsky on HN
Alternatives named
Microsoft Power Query
From 1 comment
Being pretty naive to the space, I'm assuming the killer differentiator from Microsoft's own Power Query (which looks like it can pull from Hadoop) is that this pulls a subset of…
prawks on HN
Datameer
From 1 comment
I've seen demos of a tool called Datameer which seems to offer very similar functionality (an Excel-like interface for configuring a job on a small set of data, followed by…
RobGoretsky on HN