Big Data Tools

Do you remember a long time ago when we introduced a feature in the Big Data Tools plugin called ZTools that allows you to view the current state of variables in a Zeppelin notebook? Do you remember that we made significant changes to ZTools implementation almost a year ago? It’s our tradition to…

The highlights of this release include integration with Hive Metastore and the ability to monitor Flink jobs right inside your IDE, as well as SSO authentication on Amazon S3. The new version provides many other noteworthy changes that are covered below. Get the latest version by installing it to…

Hello, fellow data engineers! It’s Pasha here, and today I'm going to introduce you to the new release of Kotlin API for Apache Spark. It's been a long time since the last major release announcements, mainly because we wanted to avoid bothering you with minor improvements. But today's announcement i…

Big Data Tools 2022.2 EAP is now available. You can try the newly added features right away by installing the latest plugin version to the 2022.2 EAP of your IDE. Please note this is an Early Access Program build, meaning it’s not fully tested. Hive Metastore support Ability to creat…

Long time no see! Sorry about the silence, but luckily we’re back. Hi, I'm Pasha Finkelshteyn, and I’ll be your guide through this month’s news. I’ll offer my impressions of recent developments in the data engineering space and highlight new ideas from the wider community. If you think I missed s…

Due to the public holidays in Russia and my own vacation time, I didn’t get a chance to write an Annotated for December. Waiting a little longer might not be such a bad thing in this case, because now we have even more interesting releases to talk about! Hi, I'm Pasha Finkelshteyn, and I’ll be your …

The Kotlin API for Apache Spark is now widely available. This is the first stable release of the API that we consider to be feature-complete with respect to the user experience and compatibility with core Spark APIs. Get on Maven Central Let’s take a look at the new features this release bring…

Zeppelin is a web-based notebook for data engineers that enables data-driven, interactive data analytics with Spark, Scala, and more. The project recently reached version 0.9.0-preview2 and is being actively developed, but there are still many things to be implemented. One such thing is an API for…