This topic describes how to query large amounts of MaxCompute data and analyze and display the query results in a visualized manner.
Prerequisites
- MaxCompute is activated. For more information, see Activate MaxCompute and DataWorks.
Note Make sure that you activate the MaxCompute and Hologres services in the same region.
- A Hologres instance is purchased and connected to HoloWeb. For more information, see HoloWeb quick start.
- Quick BI is activated. For more information, see Prerequisites.
Background information
Hologres is a real-time interactive analytics engine. It is compatible with PostgreSQL and integrates seamlessly with MaxCompute.
You can create a foreign table in Hologres to directly query data in MaxCompute.accelerated queries of MaxCompute data
A Taobao store is used in the example to describe how to create a customer persona with the following information: the regional distribution and age composition of customers, the number of preferred customers, and the regional distribution of preferred customers who were born between 1980 and 1990.
- Save data of customers who visited the store to MaxCompute tables.
- Create a foreign table in Hologres to directly query data in MaxCompute.accelerated queries of MaxCompute data
- Connect Quick BI to a Hologres instance to display the customer persona in a visualized manner.