Hadoop is big, but there’s no doubt that the game changer will be marrying SQL— the primary language used by business analysts for ad hoc analysis—with Hadoop. If you don’t want the information in ...

Building on last month’s release of Apache Hadoop 2.2, big data application platform specialist Concurrent today released a new version of Cascading, its big data application framework. “I created ...

Streaming is hot. The demand for real-time data processing is rising, and streaming vendors are proliferating and competing. Apache Kafka is a key component in many data pipeline architectures, mostly ...

What if you could break free from subscription fees, vendor lock-in, and row limits while still managing your data with the ease of a spreadsheet? Better Stack walks through how an open source ...

Since then, a bewildering array of SQL-on-Hadoop technologies have emerged. There are pure Hadoop SQL solutions such as Hive and Impala, and hybrid solutions such as Presto. Almost every commercial ...

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Historically, if you wanted to report against all of the business operations of your company, it was a very expensive ordeal. At ClearVoice, we needed to be able to collect data across many platforms, ...

Developers can now leverage real-time data using standard ANSI SQL, with new functionality including elastic storage separated from compute, strict-serializability, active replication and horizontal ...

Despite the growth of “NoSQL” databases over the past few years, SQL is going nowhere isn’t going anywhere. In fact, it seems Structured Query Language is in ascendance in a realm that once seemed ...

In “How SQL can unify access to APIs” I made the case for SQL as a common environment in which to reason about data flowing from many different APIs. The key enabler of that scenario is Steampipe, a ...