Getting Started with Big SQL tech preview

Big SQL 3.0 brings a native SQL MPP engine to Hadoop.  This engine brings rich SQL support, federation, security, RBAC,  UDFs, stored procedures and much more.   How SQL rich is it?   Look at the Video replay below to learn about the TPC-H and TPC-DS SQL workloads and the amount of queries that were used.  Not only do you get richer SQL but it is faster.   Big SQL is a feature of IBM's Hadoop distribution (BigInsights).

Where can you learn more?   There are lots of resources to learn more about Big SQL 3.0.  Here is a short list of resources:

• White Paper

• Presentations 
• Taming Big Data with Big SQL 3, 
• Big SQL 3.0: Datawarehouse-grade Performance on Hadoop - At last!

• Video replay 
• Upcoming SQL on Hadoop meetups ( Chicago, Bangalore, Moscow, Mexico City, Melbourne, Boston, Philadelphia, London...)
• Past (Toronto, Silicon Valley, Madrid, Dallas, Pittsburgh, RTP, Phoenix, Zurich, Vancouver,  NYC)

And finally try it yourself on the cloud via the Big SQL Tech Preview.   BTW, a getting started tutorial is included with the Big SQL tech preview under the resources tab and there are also additional links to many of the resources above.  

The BigInsights 3.0 QSE VM is also now available to try Big SQL.  You can also find an additional Big SQL hands on lab geared towards the VM on Hadoop Dev.

Explore the power of Big Data analytics with Hadoop at dev@Impact

Will you be at at Impact 2014?   Curious about Hadoop?  Join us for the following hands on session at dev@Imapct.

This event is part of the Impact 2014 conference so if you would like to join us you will need to be a registered conference attendee. You can sign up here.

Session DSA-3462 : Title: Explore the power of Big Data analytics with Hadoop 

Curious about Big Data? Want to learn how to use Hadoop for storing and analyzing Big Data, developing Big Data applications, and integrating Big Data into your existing IT infrastructure?  Join us to work through hands-on lab exercises and to explore technologies that businesses use to support Big Data analytics. This lab is geared towards technical staff with little or no background in Big Data. Remember to bring your laptops for the lab.

When: April 29th (Tues)1-6 pm

Where: Impact Conference in Las Vegas - Venetian, Sands 304

How to setup your machine to run the lab:
     Get VM: http://ibm.co/streamsqs
     Setup Video: https://ibm.biz/BdRJ23

You can learn about other (Mobile, Cloud, IoT) dev@Impact sessions at:
     https://www.ibmdw.net/bluemix/docs/workshops/impact2014/

Learn more about Big Data for free at Big Data University