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 ...

The opportunity and challenge of Big Data from new platforms such as Hadoop is that it opens a new range of analytics. On one hand, Big Data analytics have updated and revived programmatic access to ...

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 ...

Microsoft donates faster querying technology to Hadoop's Hive and Stinger subprojects, but it isn't giving away the farm Microsoft’s fond enough of Hadoop to give the platform a special place in its ...

theCube invited Scott Howser, VP Marketing Hadapt, to discuss the startup’s progress thus far and their opinion on the big “Hadoop War” conversation going on right now, started by Greenplum’s ...

Apache Hadoop has been widely used by enterprises for big data management and making major gains these days, with Microsoft being the latest to join the cloud club. Microsoft announced the integration ...

Microsoft today revealed more details surrounding Windows and SQL Server 12 support for big data analytics via cozier integration with Apache Hadoop, the increasingly popular open source cloud ...

CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Karmasphere™, the leader in Big Data Intelligence software, announced today the availability of Karmasphere Analyst, productivity software for data professionals ...

One commonly cited stumbling block to the broader adoption of Apache Hadoop in the enterprise is the difficulty and expense of finding and hiring developers who understand and can think in Hadoop ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the top-ranked distribution for Apache™ Hadoop®, today announced the addition of Apache Drill 0.5 to the MapR Distribution ...