Getting Started with Yellowbrick 6.2

Welcome to the Getting Started Guide for Yellowbrick Data Warehouse Version 6.2!

If you need more information, the current Yellowbrick Data Warehouse documentation contains details about basic database administration, workload management, SQL commands and functions, and so on. Much of this information applies to Version 6.1.

What's New in Yellowbrick 6.2

Yellowbrick Data Warehouse runs natively in a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), using a Cloud Data Warehouse Manager (CDWM) control plane built on Kubernetes. The data warehouse is provisioned with Amazon AWS or Microsoft Azure hardware instances and provides a cloud-based SaaS platform for in-depth analysis of high volumes of data.

The Yellowbrick Manager GUI provides quick and simple access to the system. You can use this single web-based interface to:
  • Provision and manage Yellowbrick instances within your deployment, setting limits and policies for hardware resources.
  • Create and manage one or more Yellowbrick clusters per instance, with flexibility for assigning workloads or specific queries to different hardware resources as needed. Databases are independent of clusters; work within a particular database can be attached to different clusters with adjustable hardware and WLM resources.
  • Create and manage users and roles, databases, schemas, tables, and other database objects.
  • Bulk load tables from object storage via the Load Assistant or a SQL command (LOAD TABLE). Loads from parquet files are supported, as well as text and csv.
  • Run queries, create database objects, and monitor activity.

You can also connect to clusters using your own ODBC and JDBC applications and Yellowbrick ybtools.

Prerequisites

  • Yellowbrick Manager supports the current version and the last two public releases of the following browsers:
    • Chrome
    • Firefox
    • Edge
  • Before loading your own data from object storage, make sure you have your AWS or Azure account credentials ready at hand.
  • Be sure to install Version 6.2 ybtools before using these tools to connect to Version 6.2 databases. The currently supported tools are ybsql, ybload, and ybunload.

Additional Resources

  • Videos to help you get started with Yellowbrick 6.2 (available from Yellowbrick Manager)
  • Complete Yellowbrick Data Warehouse documentation

Yellowbrick Manager Profile

You may prefer running Yellowbrick Manager in "dark mode"; to switch from light to dark mode, go to the far-right "login" menu and select Profile.

A few other profile settings are also available.