Google has created a relational database for its cloud-hosted App Engine application development and hosting platform, a much-requested addition, the company said on Thursday. For now, the database, ...

IBM is extending its commitment to Apache Spark as a key component of in-memory analytics with the latest release of its SQL engine for Hadoop. The new version of IBM Big SQL released last week also ...

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Qubole Inc., the cloud analytics vendor, has added a serverless engine to its platform aimed at simplifying complex tasks like creating data pipelines and server clusters used to scale analytics ...

Google was at the forefront of the NoSQL movement, an effort to build a new breed of database that can spread epic amounts of data across a sea of low-cost servers. But it has now acknowledged that ...

ReadySet announced $24M in Series A funding today led by Index Ventures with participation from Amplify Partners and several angels including Guillermo Rauch, Spencer Kimball, Adam Gross, Jason Warner ...

Created by the social-media giant for its huge data warehouse and open-sourced in November 2013, Presto is a SQL engine designed for low-latency interactive analysis of data sources of all sizes. It ...

Python still leads despite a dip to 24.45%. C edges past C++ for #2; Java holds #4. SQL returns to the top 10 as Perl drops ...

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 ...