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)
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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