Deciding what combination of technologies will yield the best ‘BI on Big Data’ experience can be a major challenge for data professionals. This presentation, given by Dremio CEO Tomer Shiran at Strata + Hadoop World London, aims to shed some light on some of the solutions that are available in the space.
In this session, three general classes ‘BI on Big Data’ solutions were investigated:
The following slides contain architectural descriptions, pros and cons, and a needs-based heuristic to assist those trying to settle on a BI on Big Data solution.
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Editor’s note, September 2026. This post was published in September 2023 and some product details have changed since. Nessie is still available and self-deployable under the Apache-2.0 licence, and it remains the clearest implementation of catalog-level branching. It is not an Apache Software Foundation project, and its development has slowed considerably. For how the current […]
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