Adapting NoSQL Syntax to SQL Databases
One of the greatest strengths of NoSQL databases is the query language used. While SQL databases are essentially required to use SQL queries, NoSQL databases give you the chance to build and manipulate queries as JSON, allowing for far more ...
Free Ticket to Big Data/NoSQL (Cassandra) All Day Conference in Los Angeles
Cassandra Day Los Angeles 2015 - February 12th, 2015
Are you interested in big data and/or database technologies….so we wanted to let you know about our Cassandra Day LA event on Thursday, February 12, 2015. This is your chance to get ...
10 ways to query Hadoop with SQL
SQL: old and busted. Hadoop: new hotness. That's the conventional wisdom, but the sheer number of projects putting a convenient SQL front end on Hadoop data stores shows there's a real need for products running SQL queries against data that ...
SQL At Hadoop Scale
Improvements to the Hive engine have been announced by Hortonworks. Stinger.next is intended to deliver enterprise SQL with sub-second query response time and to scale from Gigabytes to Petabytes.
Hortonworks has announced their plans for more improvements to the Hive interface ...
16 NoSQL, NewSQL Databases To Watch
Why are businesses increasingly choosing alternatives to the leading relational database management systems when grappling with new data types and extreme scale?
We put that question to Bryson Koehler, CIO of The Weather Company, which is using a NoSQL database, Riak, ...
Updated PostgreSQL targets NoSQL market
Embracing the widely used JSON data-exchange format, the new version of the PostgreSQL open-source database takes aim at the growing NoSQL market of nonrelational data stores, notably the popular MongoDB.
The first beta version of PostgreSQL 9.4, released Thursday, includes a ...
Top 30 Big Data Companies to watch in 2025
. The Big Data space is heating up – to the point that many pundits already see it as the over-hyped heir to "cloud." The hype may be a bit much, but Big Data is already living up to its ...
Impala and SQL on Hadoop
The origins of Impala can be found in F1 – The Fault-Tolerant Distributed RDBMS Supporting Google’s Ad Business.
One of many differences between MapReduce and Impala is in Impala the intermediate data moves from process to process directly instead of storing it ...
Oracle Launches NoSQL Database 3.0
Oracle NoSQL Database 3.0 has been released by Oracle, adding improvements to enable the security, usability, and performance required for enterprise development and IT needs. Available in two versions, the Oracle NoSQL Database 3.0 Enterprise Edition and Oracle NoSQL Database 3.0 ...
MariaDB adds NoSQL features to relational database roots
SkySQL has released new versions of MariaDB Enterprise and MariaDB Enterprise Cluster, promising that these editions will combine the consistency of traditional SQL database technology with the scalability of NoSQL.
It’s now almost a year since SkySQL merged with Monty Program, ...