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Analytics Engine

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Error message change required while attempting to create a service on Lite Plan

Customers are trying to create an Analytics Engine service on a Lite Plan and see the following error: "[500, Internal Server Error] Service provisioned failed. Try again later. You will now be redirected to the console dashboard."
about 5 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration

Add support for pyarrow in spark environment in watson studio

Add support for pyarrow in spark environment in watson studio
over 5 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration

Document how to setup hive for acid transactions

HDInsight make it super easy to use Hive ACID transactions - can we make it easier for users to setup hive transactions on Analytics Engine? https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/azuredatalake/2017/04/06/azure-hdinsight-3-6-five-things-that-will-make...
over 6 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration

Document how to configure Hive LLAP

Hive LLAP provides large performance improvements. Can we add to the IAE documentation how to configure it? Azure make this especially easy by provide LLAP by default with certain cluster types - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hdinsight/in...
over 6 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration

Please support Apache Flink yarn deployments on IBM Analytics Engine

Flink is probably the most popular and feature-rich open source streaming engine. It supports features that aren't supported by Spark Structured Streaming such as: joining streams local state stores (e.g. rocksdb) See also: https://ibmclou...
almost 7 years ago in Analytics Engine 2 Planned for future release

Provide Impala support in IBM Analytics Engine

Impala provides low latency and high concurrency for BI/analytic queries on Hadoop (not delivered by batch frameworks such as Apache Hive). Impala also scales linearly, even in multitenant environments.
about 7 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration

Ability to connect from DSX to HDFS from Biginsights directly using URL hdfs://

Ability to connect to biginsights cluster with spark apis likesc.textFile("hdfs://:8020/tmp/testdata.txt") At moment, Biginsights on cloud doesn't allow remote connection like above from Data science experience.https://datascience.ibm.com/
over 7 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration