Cloud-native Snowflake seeks to overcome the challenges of previous generations of data warehouse technology and embrace big data. How is its approach unique?

Microsoft's drive to put Azure SQL Data Warehouse on more equal footing with SQL Server is finally paying off.

Ignite 2019: Microsoft has revved its Azure SQL Data Warehouse, re-branding it Synapse Analytics, and integrating Apache Spark, Azure Data Lake Storage and Azure Data Factory, with a unified Web ...

This week, startup Snowflake Computing GA'd its cloud data warehouse and Microsoft took its Azure SQL Data Warehouse service to public preview. Amazon Redshift isn't the only player anymore.

Microsoft has updated its Azure SQL Data Warehouse service with several key new features including Azure Active Directory authentication.

Data integrators continue to roll out connections between huge data stores and public cloud data warehouses. The latest comes from Talend, which this week unveiled a data fabric “uploader” designed to ...

There's a new buzzword on the loose, the data lake. At first glance, a data lake could be easily mistaken for a data warehouse. The two big data concepts have a common focus on analytics and they may, ...

At its annual Inspire conference this year, Microsoft announced a 3x increase in compute scale as well as unlimited columnar support for the firm's massive parallel processing cloud offering.

There once was no alternative to building a data warehouse on-premise, but with cloud providers targeting analytics, building data warehouses on-site is looking obsolete.

Microsoft’s Azure SQL Data Warehouse, the company’s cloud-based database service for big data workloads, is getting yet another speed bump today. A few months ago, the company sped up the ...