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Peter mentioned Big Data earlier and connecting into a Hadoop cluster. Is that an "add-on tool", and is there an upper limit on the amount of records or columns of data?

  • 1.  Peter mentioned Big Data earlier and connecting into a Hadoop cluster. Is that an "add-on tool", and is there an upper limit on the amount of records or columns of data?

    Moderator
    Posted 03-15-2018 15:34


  • 2.  RE: Peter mentioned Big Data earlier and connecting into a Hadoop cluster. Is that an "add-on tool", and is there an upper limit on the amount of records or columns of data?

    Employee
    Posted 03-16-2018 06:56

    I gave a short answer during the webinar, let me try to broaden this a bit.

    As some of you may know, we have special versions of our Spectrum product that can enrich the Hadoop cluster with geocoding, address cleansing and spatial aggregation features.

    To be able to show the result from the spatial aggregation process in Hadoop we made a tool that basically could convert WKT string to MapInfo objects. The tool doesn't care about where the data comes from - it can be a text file or a linked/live table connecting to a database.

    In this specific case, we connected MapInfo Pro to Hadoop using a ODBC connection, opened a table using the connecting and used the tool to create hexagons from the the WKT string.

    The tool, WKT2MapInfo, and the sourcecode for it can be found on the Community Download site: http://communitydownloads.pbinsight.com/code-exchange/download/wkt2mapinfo