Another interesting session I attended at the PASS Summit in Seattle was one concerning dealing with VLDBs in SQL Server. It was called “Big Data – Working with Terabytes in SQL Server” presented by ...

SQL continues to make inroads in the open source Big Data space this week, with Qubole Inc. open sourcing Quark for SQL virtualization, while MapR Technologies Inc. is converging SQL and JSON in the ...

In the birth of the Big Data revolution, first there was Apache Hadoop, leveraging the batch-oriented MapReduce processing engine and scale-out NoSQL databases. Ever since, the technology has been ...

On Thursday, Google announced a whole series of database and data analytics improvements to its cloud data architecture. In this article, we'll focus on the substantial improvements to Spanner and ...

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Qubole, a big data-as-a-service company, is open sourcing its Quark platform, a cost-based SQL optimizer. The Quark project is also available in a SaaS implementation via the Qubole Data Service (QDS) ...

It's been amusing to watch the NoSQL movement transition from a "We don't need no stinking SQL" attitude to a "Can I please have some SQL with that?" philosophy. The nonrelational databases that ...

SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 19 — Oracle today unveiled new big data solutions that simplify information access and discovery, enabling customers to quickly turn data into business value. New offerings ...

The decades-old database technology is staging a comeback. SQL and RDBMS are not one and the same thing. SQL is a Structured Query Language. You can make an SQL language implementation even on ...