Comparing Big Data Integration Methods
“That’s all you need in life, a little place for your stuff. That’s all your house is, a place to keep your stuff. If you didn’t have so much stuff, you wouldn’t need a house. Read More
A Fresh Look at Data Preparation
To analyze data successfully, it must first be prepared successfully. Poor quality data creates poor results. Worse yet is data that takes too long to collect and clean because it is too big or too foreign. Read More
Single Job Execution Options in IRI Workbench
IRI Workbench not only has several ways to create jobs, but also several ways to execute them.
This article focuses on IRI Workbench execution options for job scripts based on the SortCL program language, which covers IRI Voracity ETL, CDC, SDC, pivoting and subsetting jobs, as well as its constituent product functions; i.e., Read More
External Tools for IRI Workbench
The Eclipse™ framework provides a versatile mechanism for configuring and launching external tools. Those same handy features are also available in IRI Workbench, which is Built on Eclipse™. Read More
Creating a Voracity Flow from the Palette (Part 2…
This is the second of two articles on creating a new IRI Voracity® ETL job flow from the job design Palette in the IRI Workbench, built on Eclipse. Read More
The Enterprise Data Warehouse, Then and Now
For the last 30 or so years, the precursor to most large scale business intelligence (BI) environments has been the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW). A data warehouse (DW) is usually a central database (DB) for reporting, planning, and analyzing summarized, subject-matter data integrated from disparate, historical transaction sources. Read More
Using the Voracity Pivot / Unpivot Wizard
A new wizard in the IRI Workbench GUI for Voracity can pivot or unpivot relational data. A pivot transformation converts rows to columns and is helpful when dealing with denormalized tables. Read More
Data Federation in IRI Workbench
The “New Reformat Job” wizard in the IRI Workbench NextForm menu virtualizes disparate data sources to produce immediate, fit-for-purpose views. This feature provides a simple and free or low-cost data federation vehicle for IRI NextForm, IRI CoSort, or IRI Voracity platform users. Read More
How to Convert Flat-File Formats with IRI NextForm
The “New Reformat Job” wizard in the IRI Workbench GUI for NextForm converts structured, or flat files to and from a variety of other formats, including fixed and delimited text, CSV, LDIF, XML, COBOL, and more. Read More
Creating a Voracity Flow from a Wizard (Part 2…
This is the second of two articles where we are creating an IRI Voracity ETL flow using new jobs wizards in the IRI Workbench GUI for Voracity, built on Eclipse. Read More
Building & Loading ‘Big Test Data’ into MarkLogic
Just as production data processing tools like IRI CoSort must handle big data in NoSQL DB environments, so too must a big test data generation tool like IRI RowGen. Read More