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Presto Use Surges, Qubole Finds
Don't look now, but Presto, the SQL engine developed by Facebook as a follow-on to Hive, is starting to catch on in a big way. According to a new survey of big data-as-a-service customers by Qubole, Presto logged impress Read more…
Building Presto Business No Magic Trick for Starburst
When it comes to next-gen SQL query engines, there's no shortage of players jockeying for a starting role on big Hadoop clusters and in the cloud. While the Hives, Impalas, Drills, and Spark SQLs of the world have loyal Read more…
Distributed PostgreSQL Settling Into Cloud
Organizations that want the scalability of a distributed PostgreSQL database but don't want the hassle of managing it themselves may be interested in the latest news from Citus Data, which today unveiled new options for Read more…
What SQL’s Co-Creator Sees in NoSQL
As the co-creator of Structured Query Language (SQL), Don Chamberlin knows a thing or two about pulling data out of relational databases. So when he spoke at the user conference for NoSQL database vendor Couchbase last w Read more…
Amazon Fills a Big Data Hole with Athena
Less than a year ago, Amazon launched a new big data database named Athena. Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy framed the announcement around the theme of giving enterprises “superpowers.” Yet as we approach the soon Read more…
Looker’s Audacious Moonshot to Outgrow Oracle
You may have considered Looker to be just another business intelligence tool. After all, that's the bucket analysts at Forrester and Gartner put the company in. But talk a bit with its founder, Lloyd Tabb, and you quickl Read more…
SQL Databases Integrating NoSQL-like Features
Relational databases (SQL) have been used for decades by nearly every type of business around the world. The technology is reliable, based on stable standards, and has been mature for more than 20 years. While the c Read more…
A Bottom-Up Approach to Data Quality
Despite the amazing progress we've made in novel data processing techniques, poor data quality remains the bane of analytics. It's why data scientists spend upwards of 80% of their time preparing and cleansing data inste Read more…
RDBMS Remains Popular As Data Sources Grow
As the number and variety of data sources continues to explode along with proliferation of third party APIs used to connect it, data repositories such as relational databases continue to thrive while emerging software se Read more…
Kafka Gets Streaming SQL Engine, KSQL
Confluent today unveiled KSQL, a SQL engine for Apache Kafka designed to enable users to run continuous interactive SQL queries on streaming data. The new software, which is currently in developer preview, will lower the Read more…
Databricks, Flush With Cash, Steers Spark at AI
Momentum around the Apache Spark cluster computing framework continues to build with the announcement of hefty late-stage funding round that will help push the analytics platform and related artificial intelligence appli Read more…
The New Math Driving NoSQL Analytics
NoSQL databases are extremely popular among developers thanks to their flexible schemas and rich data types like JSON. But those same attributes make getting data out of them using traditional SQL queries a real pain. No Read more…
Kinetica Gets $50M for Converged GPU Analytics
Kinetica's bold plan to build a converged real-time analytics platform that uses GPUs and in-memory techniques to power existing SQL queries alongside deep learning algorithms got a big boost today when it disclosed a $5 Read more…
Hadoop Engines Compete in Comcast Query ‘Smackdown’
Who rules the ring when it comes to Hadoop SQL query engine performance? Can flashy newcomers like Presto and Spark take an established giant like MapReduce to the matt? Comcast recently held a competition to crown the b Read more…
Hortonworks Touts Hive Speedup, ACID to Prevent ‘Dirty Reads’
If you're considering using Hadoop for SQL-based analytics and BI, you'll be interested in the latest news out of Hortonworks, which today unveiled a new release of its flagship data platform that boasts a fast new relea Read more…
SAP Vora Gets Analytics, Cloud Upgrades
Building on its acquisition of Hadoop specialist Altiscale Inc., SAP is combining the latest release of its Vora in-memory distributed computing platform with its big data cloud as it extends the Apache Spark framework t Read more…
What’s In the Pipeline for Apache Spark?
According to Apache Spark creator Matei Zaharia, Spark will see a number of new features and enhancements to existing features in 2017, including the introduction of a standard binary data format, better integration with Read more…
CrateDB Tackles Machine Analytics with Scale-Out SQL Database
Developers who want to analyze big, fast-moving machine data without the complexity of a NoSQL database have another option in CrateDB, an open source, scale-out SQL database that just became generally available today. Read more…
Amazon Adds AI, SQL to Analytics Arsenal
By any measure, Amazon Web Services is already a monster in the field of analytics via pre-built Hadoop, Redshift, Kinesis, and deep learning services. With today's unveiling of its new Amazon AI offering and a new ad-ho Read more…
It’s Time for Behavioral Analytics to Be Simpler, Interana Says
There are all sorts of patterns of human behavior hidden in your Web logs, call records, and sundry IoT data. The trick, of course, is identifying the patterns without expending enormous resources. For the folks at analy Read more…
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