The Job Script Editor in IRI Workbench
The IRI Workbench GUI, built on Eclipse™, provides several ways to create data-driven jobs … jobs which are ultimately expressed in self-documenting plain-text scripts and metadata files. Read More
Connecting Voracity to MapR
This article, along with counterpart articles for Cloudera and HortonWorks, describes the simple 5-step process to connect the IRI Voracity big data management platform to any MapR distribution through the VGrid Gateway. Read More
Connecting Voracity to Cloudera
This article, along with counterpart articles for HortonWorks (Ambari) and MapR, describes the simple 3-step process to connect the IRI Voracity big data management platform to a Cloudera distribution through the VGrid Gateway. Read More
Connecting Voracity to HortonWorks
This article, along with counterpart articles for Cloudera and MapR, describes the simple 3-step process to connect the IRI Voracity big data management platform to any Ambari distribution through the VGrid Gateway. Read More
Process and Protect HL7 Data with Voracity
Editors Note: It is now possible to discover, deliver, and de-identify PHI in text-based HL7 files directly using the IRI DarkShield data masking product for semi-structured and unstructured files, which is also included in the IRI data management platform mentioned in the discussion below where the HL7 files are structured. Read More
Unmasking the HL7 Data Standard
In this series of articles, we will describe the semi-structured HL7 file format used in many healthcare industry data storage and processing settings, and show how you can rapidly transform and mask large volumes of HL7 XML messages without writing code. Read More
When to Use Hadoop
In the last couple of years since this article about the use of IRI CoSort as a parallel data manipulation alternative to Hadoop, IRI released the Voracity platform to process big data in either paradigm. Read More
Running Voracity Jobs in Hadoop
Many of the same data manipulation, masking, and test data generation jobs you can run in IRI Voracity® with the default SortCL program can now also run seamlessly in Hadoop™. Read More
Incremental Data Replication in IRI Workbench
Our first article on data replication in the IRI Workbench GUI for NextForm (DB edition) or Voracity demonstrated how to copy and transform data as it moved from Oracle to two targets. Read More
Creating & Executing SQL Statements in IRI Workbench
Among the many database-centric features in IRI Workbench is the ability to create, modify, and execute SQL statements manually or graphically. These “SQL scrap-booking” features are available through the free Data Tools Platform (DTP) plug-in for Eclipse, which also supports IRI job wizards for database:
profiling, searching, classification, E-R diagramming, and integrity checking integration, including ETL, pivoting, slowly changing dimensions, and change data capture column masking, including format-preserving encryption, redaction, and pseudonymization subsetting, test data generation, and bulk loading migration, replication, and offline reorgsTo use the cross-platform(!) Read More
Executing ETL & Batch Flows
Batch files contain commands in plain text that can be executed by the command line interpreter of the operating system to accomplish a specific purpose. Windows batch files usually have an extension of .bat Read More