Selecting the right SQL-on-Hadoop engine to access big data

With SQL-on-Hadoop technologies, it's possible to access big data stored in Hadoop by using the familiar SQL language. Users can plug in almost any reporting or analytical tool to analyze and study the data. Before SQL-on-Hadoop, accessing big data was ...

Pivotal Brings In-Memory Analysis To Hadoop

Pivotal, the EMC spin-off company pursuing modern application development in the context of cloud computing and big-data analysis, on Monday released Pivotal HD 2.0, an update of its Hadoop distribution incorporating an in-memory database and a battery of new analysis ...

Hadoop and NoSQL Now Data Warehouse-Worthy-Gartner

Not long ago, the rules for what constituted a data warehouse were fairly well defined. The schema was fixed, you could say, and was based primarily on relational database technology designed to process structured data. My, how times have changed. ...

Oracle announces Big Data Machine

With everyone talking about big data, the need for a big sever to handle the bytes may be necessary. Oracle Corp.’s solution is the “Big Data Machine,” the newest server running its new Sparc M6 processor. Officially called the M6-32, the ...