With virtually every Hadoop distribution vendor offering SQL-on-Hadoop solutions, the key factor in the market is now the integration between Hadoop and data warehouse technology. Read more »
Splice Machine ships v1 of its RDBMS-on-Hadoop. Plus, HP Vertica, MapR and the Apache Drill and CouchDB teams have release news of their own. Read more »
Adoption of analytics technology amongst marketing professionals is prolific, perhaps more so than with any other part of the business. You might think, then, that all such analytics implementations are relatively… Read more »
The third quarter showed clear signs of Hadoop’s maturation and the industry’s maturity in working with it. Meanwhile, megavendors continued to build out their big data and analytics portfolios. Read more »
New features included in Hadoop’s latest releases go some way towards freeing an increasingly capable data platform from the constraints of its early dependence on one specific technical approach: MapReduce. Read more »
This week brings a pair of tuck-in acquisitions, a new release and a partnership that deliver fit, finish and further Enterprise-mainstreaming of Hadoop and predictive analytics. The week’s events also include an important… Read more »
Ever since Cloudera’s October, 2012 announcement of its Impala SQL-on-Hadoop engine, it seems the database industry has been obsessed with fusing the SQL query language with Hadoop. These various pairings have… Read more »
Hadoop can be an efficient and cost-effective tool for offloading some of the data processing currently done inside the enterprise data warehouse. Read more »
In an abrupt change of IT strategy, General Motors (GM) is following the examples of Google and Facebook and building its own mega data centers. Will other Fortune 100 companies follow… Read more »