Unless a "neutral" third party publishes them, we tend to view benchmarks as self-serving exercises that vendors typically stack in their own favor. But recent benchmarks issued by Cloudera and ...

On and off, over the years, I have followed and written about the SQL-on-Hadoop saga. The adventure started with Apache Hive, which originally provided a SQL layer on top of MapReduce, bringing new ...

PALO ALTO, CA--(Marketwired - Oct 7, 2014) - Altiscale, Inc., a leading innovator in Hadoop-as-a-Service (HaaS) solutions, today announced a comprehensive SQL-on-Hadoop offering for the Altiscale Data ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Here's a look at different ways to query Hadoop via SQL, some of which are part of the latest edition of MapR's Hadoop distribution SQL: old and busted. Hadoop: new hotness. That’s the conventional ...

Despite some speculation over the past few days about what it means that Cloudera wants to port the Hive SQL-on-Hadoop engine onto the Spark processing framework, Cloudera Co-founder and Chief ...

PALO ALTO, Calif., Oct. 7 — Altiscale, Inc., a leading innovator in Hadoop-as-a-Service (HaaS) solutions, today announced a comprehensive SQL-on-Hadoop offering for the Altiscale Data Cloud. The ...

Poke around the infrastructure of any startup website or mobile app these days, and you’re bound to find something other than a relational database doing much of the heavy lifting. Take, for example, ...