Splunk DB Connect is designed to deliver reliable, scalable, real-time integration between Splunk Enterprise and relational databases. Essentially, it lets you query a relational database from within Splunk and return the results. As DB Connect leverages JDBC/ODBC to perform such a function, would it be possible to use DB Connect to query data sitting in Hadoop? Actually, yes… read on to find out more. Read more
At the Strata + Hadoop World conference a week or so ago in New York, there was a great talk by Ken Rudin, leader of the Facebook Analytics team. He gave his views on how to leverage Big data effectively to deliver the most impact. The core of his presentation were three commonly held beliefs that needed to be challenged. A summary of the presentation follows below. Read more
Splunk recently announced a new offering, called Hunk. This is essentially a tool that allows for the exploration, analysis and visualisation of data in Hadoop, using the powerful Splunk interface and search engine common to their Splunk Enterprise offering. Read more
