The opportunity and challenge of Big Data from new platforms such as Hadoop is that it opens a new range of analytics. On one hand, Big Data analytics have updated and revived programmatic access to ...

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 ...

Microsoft donates faster querying technology to Hadoop's Hive and Stinger subprojects, but it isn't giving away the farm Microsoft’s fond enough of Hadoop to give the platform a special place in its ...

Recognizing that Hadoop and SQL database technology need to be joined at the hip in the enterprise, EMC Greenplum today announced Pivotal HD, an implementation of the company’s massively parallel ...

Karmasphere has introduced Karmasphere Analyst, productivity software for data professionals working with massive data sets. "Karmasphere is focused on providing software for developers and analysts ...