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Databricks CEO on Streaming Analytics, Deep Learning, and SQL
As Apache Spark continues to gain steam, so too does Databricks, the company behind the popular distributed processing framework. At the recent Strata + Hadoop World conference, we caught up with Databricks CEO and co-fo Read more…
Kognitio Pivots SQL Data Warehouse Into Hadoop
If you're in the market for a SQL-on-Hadoop solution, you have many options to consider. And now that Kognitio has adapted its proven massively parallel processing (MPP) in-memory SQL database to run under YARN and MapRe Read more…
GPUs Seen Lifting SQL Analytic Constraints
Big data analytics has traditionally been about developing cutting-edge software to run on commodity hardware. But there are signs that innovation at the hardware layer, such as with GPUs, can take analytics to the next Read more…
Survey: Spark Going ‘Mainstream’
That rumbling sound you hear is Apache Spark entering production deployments in public clouds along with surging use of the cluster-computing framework's streaming and machine learning capabilities, according to a new ve Read more…
Data Engineers in Hot Demand
The big data community has been dealing with the data scientist shortage ever since big data became a thing. Now we're learning that there's possibly an even bigger shortage of another type of data professional: the data Read more…
Another Self-Service Database Tool Emerges
The democratization of big data continues apace with a new self-service analytics tool that allows non-data scientists to query databases and get answers without formal training in, for example, SQL. The startup VQL T Read more…
Actian Reasserts Performance Claims With VectorH
The latest version of SQL-on-Hadoop specialist Actian Corp.'s Vector database tightens integration with Apache Spark to widen access to new data sources while adding enterprise features required to move Hadoop-based anal Read more…
Hadoop Past, Present, and Future
Every few years the technology industry seems to be consumed with a shiny new object that gets hyped far beyond reality. At worst, the inevitable bursting of the hype bubble leads to the disappearance of the technology f Read more…
Upgrades Aid Access to Legacy Data
The latest release of a No+SQL database management platform adds integration capabilities for legacy COBOL and Btrieve systems designed to allow users to update the data management engine underneath their existing applic Read more…
MemSQL Pushes HTAP Ball Forward
MemSQL used the second full day of the Strata + Hadoop World conference to launch a new version of its distributed SQL database that pushes forward its hybrid transactional/analytical processing (HTAP) strategy, which is Read more…
Picking the Right SQL-on-Hadoop Tool for the Job
SQL is, arguably, the biggest workload many organizations run on their Hadoop clusters. And there's good reason why: The combination of a familiar interface (SQL) along with a modern computing architecture (Hadoop) enabl Read more…
What Data Science Skills Employers Want Now
There's good news if you're for a job in data science in 2016 -- the number of job openings in the field appears to be rising as companies look to leverage big data for competitive advantage. But actually landing a covet Read more…
New TPC Benchmark Puts an End to Tall SQL-on-Hadoop Tales
You take certain things for granted in the big data world. Data will continue to grow at a geometric rate. Amazing new technologies will regularly appear out of nowhere. And software vendors will squabble endlessly over Read more…
The Algebra of Data Promises a Better Math for Analytics, And More
A company by the name of Algebraix Data is beginning to speak publicly for the first time about the algebra of data, an approach to storing and accessing data that it devised and patented. The company is using its data a Read more…
Kyvos Debuts OLAP for Hadoop
Many technology pros view OLAP as a legacy technology, a holdover from the days of data warehousing that doesn't have a place in today's big data world. But several startups are fighting to change that perception, includ Read more…
JethroData Indexes Its Way to $8.1M SQL Payday
There's no shortage of SQL-on-Hadoop projects in the works. Hive, Impala, Presto, HAWQ—they all tout a certain advantage. But they all look mostly the same to Eli Singer, the CEO of JethroData, which today landed $8.1 Read more…
Arcadia Emerges with Visual Analytics Running Directly On Hadoop
Arcadia Data today emerged from stealth mode by announcing $11.5 million in Series A funding and the limited availability of its flagship product: a Web-based visual analytics tool served directly from Hadoop. In Hado Read more…
Teradata Bets Big on Presto for Hadoop SQL
Teradata today revealed it's making a major investment in Presto, the SQL-on-Hadoop framework originally developed at Facebook to power interactive queries against its massive data warehouse. Not only is Teradata steppin Read more…
Survey Casts Doubt on Big Data, Hadoop Efforts
A rule of thumb in markets like consumer electronics is don't be an early adopter; wait until the vendor works out the kinks in its product and go with a later, more mature version. The same could be said for the grow Read more…
Why Couchbase Is Adding SQL To Its NoSQL Database
Couchbase's SQL query language, called N1QL, is now ready for business in the beta of Couchbase Server 4.0, the company announced today. While Couchbase isn't giving up on NoSQL concepts or architectures, it is counting Read more…
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