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 ...

Unless a "neutral" third party publishes them, we tend to view benchmarks as self-serving exercises that vendors typically stack in their own favor. But recent benchmarks issued by Cloudera and ...

Teradata Aster has launched a new tool which allows business analysts to work with Hadoop data through SQL query structures. Its Aster SQL-H provides a bridge between widely used business intelligence ...

Looker says it had been waiting for these engines to get fast enough to support its BI platform. And now they are. Last May, Apache Hive 1.2 was released. It included support for SQL Union (Union ...

Although there will always be instances where it makes more sense to use MapReduce with Hadoop, it’s pretty clear at this point that most enterprise IT organizations would rather use SQL. MapReduce is ...

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On Thursday, Teradata announced a new analytical database platform that combines more traditional SQL database capabilities with the "big data" power of MapReduce, the analytical framework at the ...

NEW YORK, N.Y., Oct. 16 — Actian Corporation (“Actian”), the Hadoop analytics company, has launched the Actian Analytics Platform – Express Hadoop SQL Edition, a free community version of the industry ...

SQL is the gateway drug to enterprise adoption says analysts at recent developer conference. Hadoop Summit, leading big data developer conference, saw the maturation of the Hadoop ecosystem. Hadoop is ...

Ten Best Practices for Securing Sensitive Data in Hadoop Actian today launched a free community edition of its SQL-compatible Big Data platform for Hadoop at the Strata + Hadoop World 2014 conference.