
Tag: sql
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…
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…