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All the hints and tricks you need to know for developing an application against the Delta Sharing REST API.
Date: November 28, 2022
Location: AWS re:Invent 2022, Las Vegas
Exponam announced today the limited release of the Exponam.ConnectTM Excel Add-in, an easy-to-use Excel Application which brings Delta data from Databricks (and Spark) directly to end users in Excel.
Exponam.Connect empowers business users with frictionless, no-code access to data for which they are permissioned via Delta Sharing Server(s). Users easily add data sets from company data repositories, from partner companies, and from data sellers and marketplaces.
Delta data is instantly previewable with easy controls to:
Roger Dunn, Co-founder and CTO of Exponam, said: “Since 2017, Exponam’s mission has been to make modern data sets accessible to everyone. Reporting and analytics tools are great, but business users want to work with data in a spreadsheet. By partnering with Databricks, our Exponam.Connect product brings data from the world’s leading Lakehouse platform directly to non-technical business users in Excel.”
Herman Weintraub, Co-founder and CEO of Exponam, said: “For the world’s 50 million developers, cloud data and distributed compute platforms like Spark have made data more accessible and better governed than ever. But for the world’s billions of Excel users, access to data has never been more of a challenge. Exponam.Connect, opens cloud data to the world. And with our .BIGTM format, we make modern data easy to securely share, distribute, store and access.”
Exponam evangelizes “Empowerment through Data.” We create better ways to share, move, store, and explore data. Organizations can use Exponam.Connect and .BIG file technologies with their existing systems to make large and sensitive data easier to access, faster to share, and cheaper to store.
20 October 2022
For Immediate Release:
Intra-company. Inter-company. For analysis. For distribution and sale. For teams working from home. For partners, vendors, regulators. To the cloud. From the cloud.
Downloading, moving, and uploading data is slow. Firms address inefficient data movement in two ways:
Unsatisfied with current solutions to speed data sharing and distribution, we sought a new approach. Rather than addressing the issue of time to move a single bit of data, we focused on the data itself. What could we do to decrease the size of the package, and make it more efficient for extract and import?
Today, data is transferred in different formats – csv, json, xml – but these formats all suffer the same fundamental flaws of being large and inefficient for extract and import. These formats have been used for generations – from a time when data sets were much smaller. From a time when a few million rows was a tremendous amount of data.
Exponam .BIGAt Exponam, we have created a new data file type – tailor made for today’s data sets. Our data file, a .BIG file, is highly compressed and is optimized for efficient extract and import. It can be used to transport, share, and explore hundreds of millions of rows quickly and easily. In tests, a .BIG file is blazingly fast when transferring ultra-large data sets – transferring in minutes, data that took hours or days in other formats.
Once files have been distributed and shared, we need an easy way to access and explore data. With the Exponam Explorer, a user can instantly open, filter, sort, and find data from within a .BIG file.
It is easy to explore data of any size – hundreds of rows or millions of rows – making this a great solution when data won’t fit in an Excel spreadsheet.
Users no longer need to spend hours migrating data to databases and writing queries – data is available instantly in a spreadsheet. Alternately, users can query .BIG files directly via JDBC – with the query performance of a database.
Quickly transferring and accessing data aren’t the only data problems.
The world has a major problem with data security. We are constantly learning about yet another company which experienced a major data breach. Not only is data stolen from databases, it is stolen from data files extracted from databases. Extracted data files are not secure. And they are everywhere.
So we made .BIG files fully secure – exceeding today’s security demands around information. And they stay secure. You never decrypt/decompress .BIG like with other compression options. Exponam .BIG files are secure at rest, in process, and in transit.
Data files sitting in email, on laptops, and in the cloud are a security risk as long as they exist. A file which was downloaded or shared one day can be compromised years later. Exponam .BIG files can be generated with specified durations for file access – from hours to days or years. Even more, .BIG files can be dynamically controlled – enabling user specific entitlements and access rights.
.BIG files are tamper-proof and their provenance is guaranteed. The publisher is certifiable and both the file properties and data are unalterable.
At Exponam, we evangelize “Empowerment through Data.” We have created the Exponam ExplorerTM, Exponam BuilderTM, and Exponam .BIGTM file format to enable Secure Sharing and Exploring of Data. Learn more. Visit us at www.exponam.com.