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Replicating Oracle Webinar Question Follow-up
We had really great webinar on Replicating to/from Oracle earliest this month, and you can view the recording of that Webinar here. A good sign of how great a Webinar was is the questions that come afterwards, and we didn’t get through them all. so here are all the questions and answers for the entire…
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A New Home for Tungsten in the UK
I was suitably heartened to hear about the new mine opening up in the Devon here in the UK to mine the element Tungsten. I comment on this to my associates at Continuent, where comments were made by Csaba as to the appropriate quotes in the article: “Tungsten is an extraordinary metal.” “It’s almost as…
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Continuent at Hadoop Summit
I’m pleased to say that Continuent will be at the Hadoop Summit in San Jose next week (3-5 June). Sadly I will not be attending as I’m taking an exam next week, but my colleagues Robert Hodges, Eero Teerikorpi and Petri Versunen will be there to answer any questions you have about Continuent products, and, of…
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Cross your Fingers for Tech14, see you at OSCON
So I’ve submitted my talks for the Tech14 UK Oracle User Group conference which is in Liverpool this year. I’m not going to give away the topics, but you can imagine they are going to be about data translation and movement and how to get your various databases talking together. I can also say, after…
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Revisiting ZFS and MySQL
While at Percona Live this year I was reminded about ZFS and running MySQL on top of a ZFS-based storage platform. Now I’m a big fan of ZFS (although sadly I don’t get to use it as much as I used to after I shutdown my home server farm), and I did a lot of…
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Tungsten Replicator 3.0 is Cloudera Enterprise 5 Certified
One of the key platforms I’ve been testing on for the MySQL to Hadoop replication has been Cloudera, largely driven by customer requirements, but it’s also one of the easiest way to get started with Hadoop. What I’m even more pleased about is the fact that we are proud to announce that Tungsten Replicator 3.0 is…
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Continuent Replication to Hadoop – Now in Stereo!
Hopefully by now you have already seen that we are working on Hadoop replication. I’m happy to say that it is going really well. I’ve managed to push a few terabytes of data and different data sets through into Hadoop on Cloudera, HortonWorks, and Amazon’s Elastic MapReduce (EMR). For those who have been following my…
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Real-Time Data Loading from MySQL to Hadoop using Tungsten Replicator 3.0 Webinar
To follow-up and describe some of the methods and techniques behind replicating into Hadoop from MySQL in real-time, and how this can be combined into your data workflow, Continuent are running a webinar with me presenting that will go over the details and provide a demo of the data replication process. Real-Time Data Loading from…
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Parallel Extractor for Provisioning
Coming up as a new feature in Tungsten Replicator (and written by our replicator expert Stephane Giron) is the ability to provision a new database by using data from an existing database. This new feature comes in the form of a tool called the Parallel Extractor. The principles are very simple. On the master side: Start…
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Using the Continuent Docs
As hopefully has been noticed, the Continuent documentation is achieving a pretty good critical mass. The content of the documentation is always the most important consideration. Secondary is making sure that the information in the documentation can be found, and that when reading, you can hover and click to get relevant information so that you…