BigData: HDFS FeatureClass ETL and MapReduce GPTool

This post is dedicated to my Esri colleagues Ajit D. and Philip H. for their invaluable help.This is work in progress - but I've put a good dent in it that I would like to share it with you.  In this post, we will go through a complete cycle, where from ArcMap, we will:Export a FeatureClass to an HDFS folderRegister that folder as a Hive tableRun command line Hive queriesExecute Hive queries...

BigData: Cloudera Impala and ArcPy

So at the last Strata+Hadoop World, Cloudera introduces Impala- I downloaded the demo VM, and install the TPC-DS data set (read the impala_readme.txt once the VM starts up) and tested some of the queries. Was pretty fast and cool - As of this writing, UDFs and SerDes are missing from this beta release, so I cannot do my Spatial UDF operators, nor can I read JSON formatted HDFS record :-(One of the...