About SAS In-Memory Statistics

SAS In-Memory Statistics is an offering that provides the data scientist or analytical expert with interactive programming access to in-memory data and integrates seamlessly with data in Hadoop or a Teradata Data Warehouse Appliance. This information applies to the SAS In-Memory Statistics 2.6 and later.
In order to use the offering, the following must be true:
  • You are using a distributed SAS LASR Analytic Server only.
  • The SAS LASR Analytic Server is co-located with Hadoop distribution that has been configured with the services from SAS Plug-ins for Hadoop. The services enable you to use the SASHDAT file format for storing tables in HDFS.
  • Data Access Requirement At least one of the following:
    • For deployments that work with Hadoop data, SAS/ACCESS Interface to Hadoop must be configured on a client machine that you use for submitting SAS programs. Be sure to install the SAS Embedded Process on the machines in the Hadoop cluster. The SAS/ACCESS engine, the embedded process, and the HDMD procedure enable you to describe your data that is in Hadoop and access it directly without an intermediate metadata repository such as Hive.
    • For deployments that work with Teradata, SAS/ACCESS Interface to Teradata must be configured on a client machine that you use for submitting SAS programs. Be sure to install the SAS Embedded Process on the machines in the Teradata appliance. The SAS/ACCESS engine and the embedded process work together to transfer data from Teradata into memory on the server.
  • SAS Studio provides an interactive web-based development application that enables you to write and submit SAS programs. Make sure that your user ID is configured for passwordless SSH to the machines the cluster. Also make sure that you have passwordless SSH access from the machine that hosts SAS Studio to the machines in the cluster. For more information, see Passwordless SSH.