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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 ...

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 ...

In previous columns, we’ve noted that the SQL language is in the ascendant. New SQL native databases such as CockroachDB and Yugabyte are showing robust adoption, while non-relational (NoSQL) ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...