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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…
Apache Drill Poised to Crack Tough Data Challenges
It's been three years in the making, and today the Apache Drill project announced that version 1 of the eponymous tool is ready for business. MapR Technologies, which develops Hadoop and NoSQL database software, wasted n Read more…
Big Data, Giant Return
Sales drive business. And technology drives sales. The trick is to figure out how to make the two work together. That opportunity arose when a long-term client, National Registered Agents, Inc. (NRAI), determined the tim Read more…
Pivotal, Hortonworks Join Forces on Hadoop
Cloud-based big data provider Pivotal Software and Hortonworks announced the addition of a key component of Pivotal's Big Data Suite to the Hortonworks' Hadoop platform. The partners said this week customers investing Read more…
A Shoebox-Size Data Warehouse Powered by GPUs
When it comes to big data, the size of your computer definitely matters. Running SQL queries on 100 TB of data or joining billions of records, after all, requires horsepower. But organizations with big data aspirations a Read more…
AtScale Claims to Mask Hadoop Complexity for OLAP-Style BI
AtScale came out of stealth mode today with new software designed to trick business intelligence tools into thinking that Hadoop is a standard database upon which they can perform OLAP-style analysis, as opposed to the h Read more…
Where Does InfiniDB Go From Here?
Last September, the company behind InfiniDB, Calpont, went out of business. Up stepped MariaDB, the company behind the open source relational database, to serve as a steward for the product and provide support to custome Read more…
Apache Spark Continues to Spread Beyond Hadoop
Apache Spark is most often thought of as a faster replacement for MapReduce, the batch-oriented programming framework that enabled first-gen Hadoop to catch traction 10 years ago. Indeed, Spark was initially created with Read more…
How Advances in SQL on Hadoop Are Democratizing Big Data–Part 1
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 provided the Read more…
Graph Analytics Poised to Solve Tough Big Data Problems
Hadoop has emerged as the go-to platform for sifting through massive amounts of data on commodity machines. But when it comes to certain types of analytic workloads with open-ended problems, nothing beats a graph databas Read more…
Survey: Mega-Vendors Still Dominate Database Management Market
Industry analyst Gartner's "Magic Quadrant" survey of the operational database management systems market found a widening gap between market leaders and niche players, identifying only one "challenger," MongoDB, and a ha Read more…
Dremel Builder Gets $7M for SQL-Based Supertool
Big data startup Metanautix emerged from stealth mode today by announcing a $7-million round of venture funding to further development of a SQL-based power tool. Led by the former Google engineer who headed the developme Read more…
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