One
of the most powerful benefits of SAS LASR Analytic Server
is the ability to read data in parallel from a co-located data provider.
In this configuration, the SAS LASR Analytic Server software
is installed on the same hardware as the data provider. The currently
supported data providers are the following:
-
SAS High-Performance Deployment of Hadoop
(or a customer-supplied Hadoop cluster that has been configured to
use the SAS services from SAS High-Performance Deployment of Hadoop)
-
Teradata Data Warehouse Appliance
-
Greenplum Data Computing Appliance
The data builder excels
at accessing data from a variety of data sources, performing basic
data preparation, and then staging the prepared data with a co-located
data provider. After the data is staged, the server can load the data
to memory for exploration, reporting, and further in-memory data preparation.
The
SAS Deployment Wizard registers two predefined libraries for the SAS LASR Analytic Server
and two libraries for the co-located data provider. For the third-party
vendor products, the default library name and location are as follows:
Teradata Data Warehouse Appliance
/Shared
Data/SAS Visual Analytics/Public/Visual Analytics Public Teradata
Greenplum Data Computing Appliance
/Shared
Data/SAS Visual Analytics/Public/Visual Analytics Public Greenplum