In a previous article, we discussed several key advances in SQL on Hadoop that are making Big Data capabilities increasingly accessible to analytics organizations. While SQL democratizes Big Data by ...

Cloudera, the company behind the most widely deployed Hadoop distribution, did something surprising yesterday at Strata + Hadoop World, NYC. Instead of beckoning "old school" database and BI ...

Teradata Aster has launched a new tool which allows business analysts to work with Hadoop data through SQL query structures. Its Aster SQL-H provides a bridge between widely used business intelligence ...

On Thursday, Teradata announced a new analytical database platform that combines more traditional SQL database capabilities with the "big data" power of MapReduce, the analytical framework at the ...

Microsoft released two community technology preview (CTP) test versions of its Hadoop connectors today, one that works with Microsoft's current flagship SQL Server and other with its data warehouse ...

theCube invited Scott Howser, VP Marketing Hadapt, to discuss the startup’s progress thus far and their opinion on the big “Hadoop War” conversation going on right now, started by Greenplum’s ...

SQL is the gateway drug to enterprise adoption says analysts at recent developer conference. Hadoop Summit, leading big data developer conference, saw the maturation of the Hadoop ecosystem. Hadoop is ...

You may not realize it, but Hadoop has already been around for 10 years. Even now, with most organizations having in one way or another adopted it, not everything about it is obvious and clear. But ...

And there are many others. “The excitement around adding the SQL layer is aimed at empowering all the people out there that are knowledgeable in SQL,” Hortonworks’ Connolly said. “We do see that as an ...

September 2014 marked the anniversary of Edgar F. Codd’s 1969 introduction of “A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks”, which is a compellation of research and theories that ultimately ...