Tag: sql
NoSQL vs. NewSQL: Comparing Database Technologies
NoSQL and NewSQL databases are popular solutions in the data management space. At VoltDB, we’re sometimes asked to clarify the difference between the two approaches. Here’s what you need to know if you’re trying to Read more…
Startup Rockset Adds SQL to DynamoDB
Rockset, the serverless search and analytics startup that emerged last fall from stealth mode, this week unveiled its SQL platform targeting NoSQL data from Amazon Web Services’ DynamoDB. Rockset, San Mateo, Calif., Read more…
Data Science Back to School: Accelerate Your Education
Are you looking to get a data science degree and join the workforce as a data scientist? Then you're not alone, as thousands of young people around the world are following that same path with the hope of tapping into the Read more…
AWS Debuts PartiQL for Query Agnosticism
Amazon Web Services last week debuted partiQL, a new query language that's agnostic to the type of database, format, or model that the underlying data is stored in. The language, which is based on SQL++, can be used to q Read more…
Inaugural Distributed SQL Summit to Be Held September 20
The first ever Distributed SQL Summit will be held on September 20, 2019, in San Jose, California. The summit, which is hosted by YugaByte, aims to bring together industry leaders to share best practices and technical kn Read more…
Funders Target Flexible Graph Databases
The graph database ecosystem continues to expand with new venture funding for Dgraph Labs Inc., a transactional and distributed graph database startup. The San Francisco-based startup announced an $11.5 million Series Read more…
Snowflake Rides Cloud Wave to Great Heights
Snowflake Computing started quietly enough back in 2012, at the height of Hadoop hype, when the idea of a relational analytics database running in the cloud was interesting, if not exactly groundbreaking. Fast forward se Read more…
What Gartner Sees In Analytic Hubs
In the old days, companies would build their business intelligence strategies from the ground up, typically starting with a traditional data warehouse. But as the volume, trajectory, and types of data have exploded, comp Read more…
Cloud Data Warehouse Gets New Analytics Interface
Analytics interface vendors continue to offer easy-to-use tools designed to allow more business users to query data, especially data increasingly stored in a growing number of cloud data warehouses. Among the goals is si Read more…
MemSQL Giving Away Database for Four-Node Clusters
Everybody likes free stuff. Today MemSQL announced that it's getting into the free software market by giving away copies of its distributed relational database management system for clusters up to four nodes and 128GB of Read more…
Cockroach Labs Rolls Geo-Location DB Service
Database vendors are increasingly focusing on the lack of enterprise expertise for handling distributed SQL databases by offering managed services. Among the challenges in implemented “global” databases is compliance Read more…
How SQL++ Makes JSON More Queryable
For more than 40 years, SQL has provided a standard way to query structured data. However, much of the data being generated and stored today exists in semi-structured formats, like JSON, which doesn't "speak SQL." But no Read more…
Empowering Citizen Data Science
Companies of all stripes are turning to data science to unlock the value in their data. However, finding highly trained data scientists to build the systems has proven to be a very difficult task. Now many organizations Read more…
MapD’s GPU-Powered Database Now Available in Google Cloud’s Marketplace
GPU-powered database pioneer MapD Technologies today announced that customers can now get its software through the Google Cloud Launcher, the online marketplace for Google Cloud Platform. The news comes on the heals of a Read more…
CrateDB Raises Cash, Upgrades Machine Data Platform
Startup Crate.io’s strategy of advancing an open source scale-out SQL database as an alternative to complex NoSQL versions for handling fast-moving machine data appears to be paying dividends with the close of an early Read more…
Streaming SQL for Real-Time Analytics
Streaming analytics is moving into the mainstream as more enterprises capitalize on the technology to gain greater efficiency, competitiveness, and profitability. In fact, the streaming analytics market will grow to $13. Read more…
Apache Flink Gets An SQL Client
The latest release of the Apache Flink framework introduces the capability to execute exploratory SQL queries on data streams from a new SQL client, which will open the processing framework to a new class of users. Ap Read more…
Google’s BigQuery Gaining Steam As Cloud Warehouse Wars Heat Up
Amazon Redshift may dominate the nascent cloud data warehouse category, but anecdotal evidence suggests Google BigQuery is catching on quickly – and offerings from Microsoft, SnowFlake, and others aren't far behind. Read more…
Web-Based Query Tool Touches Multiple DBs
Developers today use databases almost like languages. They might start on a good old relational database like MySQL, but then requirements shift a bit, so they sprinkle a little MongoDB on top. The data starts to build, Read more…