Facebook is open-sourcing Presto, an SQL query engine that it developed in-house to help analysts, data scientists and engineers pick apart the information stored in its enormous data warehouses.

Every day, businesses depend on data to operate. Customer orders, quotes for new business, conversations around products, campaigns for marketing—pretty much every business process today is based on ...

Think of data mining as digging for digital gold. It’s the technique of studying big data to reveal insights, trends, and links that aren't instantly apparent. In simple terms, it takes unprocessed ...

One of the critical decisions facing companies embarking on big data projects is which database to use, and often that decision swings between SQL and NoSQL. SQL has the impressive track record, the ...

Alexandra Twin has 15+ years of experience as an editor and writer, covering financial news for public and private companies. Natalya Yashina is a CPA, DASM with over 12 years of experience in ...

A few days ago, we highlighted the drastic privacy implications of new guidelines issued to govern data-mining by the National Counterterrorism Center (“NCTC”). Yesterday, we testified to Congress ...