Using R for Big Data Analytics !

Christopher Nguyen, PhD Co-Founder & CEO

Presented on December 6, 2013

R on Big Data

is single threaded

R is single core single threaded

scales poorly

collapses when meets

standard

Big Data R Options Available

RDBMS with

statistical support

Multi-threaded Multi-core

Out of memory

R

R on MapReduce

In-Memory Parallel R on Big Data

bigmemory biglm parallel …

HP Vertica SAP HANA Oracle R ...

Revolution R RHIPE RHive ...

BigR

Technology Big Data Storage

Speed Scalability In-memory Computing

Standard R User

Experience

bigmemory biglm

parallelNo Very slow Low No Yes

RDBMS with stat support

Proprietary High, if native Medium Variable No if UDF

R on MapReduce

HDFS Slow High No No

Adatao BigR HDFS, RDBMS Very high High Yes Yes

Comparison Matrix

Concrete Examples

Adatao Live Demo at

The First Apache Spark Summit San Francisco, CA December 2, 2013