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 ...

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 ...

September 2014 marked the anniversary of Edgar F. Codd’s 1969 introduction of “A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks”, which is a compellation of research and theories that ultimately ...

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 ...

Here's a look at different ways to query Hadoop via SQL, some of which are part of the latest edition of MapR's Hadoop distribution SQL: old and busted. Hadoop: new hotness. That’s the conventional ...

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EMC Greenplum on Monday unveiled Pivotal HD, a new Apache Hadoop big data distribution that the company said moves Hadoop queries from a batch to an interactive process and makes them as easy as SQL ...

Pivotal HD 2.0 deploys Hadoop for enterprise-grade data analytics PaaS, more for Pivotal's benefit than Hadoop's Pivotal, an EMC/VMware spin-off that has big plans to deliver big data analytics ...

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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 ...