Did you know that 90% of the world’s data has been created in the last two years alone? With such an overwhelming influx of information, businesses are constantly seeking efficient ways to manage and ...

EMC Greenplum on Monday unveiled Pivotal HD, a new Apache Hadoop big data distribution that the company said moves Hadoop queries from a batch to an interactive process and makes them as easy as SQL ...

Call them what you will—online analytical processing (OLAP) databases, enterprise data warehouses (EDWs), massively parallel processing (MPP) databases but databases designed for analytical workloads ...

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Actian, the leader in hybrid cloud data warehousing and data integration, today announced general availability for Actian Vector for Hadoop, its upgraded SQL ...

Microsoft Corp. today announced new cloud-hosted versions of its SQL Server database service as two older on-premises varieties finally will see the end of extended support Tuesday. Having transformed ...

It’s time for the next version of SQL Server, Microsoft’s flagship database product. The company today announced the first public preview of SQL Server 2019 and while yet another update to a ...

With Strata + Hadoop World kicking off, it’s always fascinating to step back and look at the contents of the sessions as a way of understanding what’s happening in the world of big data. For those of ...

Looker says it had been waiting for these engines to get fast enough to support its BI platform. And now they are. Last May, Apache Hive 1.2 was released. It included support for SQL Union (Union ...

Here’s an image for you. There is no such thing as a data lake. The multi-petabyte storage racks nearly overflowing with unstructured and semi-structured data that are being built by hyperscalers, ...

LinkedIn's open source, home-brew OLAP project is a new way for Hadoop users (and others) to query both real-time and historical data Social networks generate colossal amounts of data that have come ...