Mode, a startup that’s trying to be something like a GitHub for data scientists, has added new features to its collaboration platform that make it easier to write SQL queries and… Read more »
Data warehouse vendor Teradata continues to step up its game in the broader big data market, this time by acquiring consulting firm Think Big Analytics, which specializes in helping clients deploy… Read more »
MapR is continuing along its path to Hadoop glory with new support for the YARN resource manager and a direct integration with the HP Vertica analytic database. In such a competitive… Read more »
Splice Machine, a startup promising a SQL-on-Hadoop database that can handle both transactional and analytic workloads, has closed a $15 million series B round of venture capital from InterWest Partners, along… Read more »
MemSQL, the database startup from two former Facebook engineers, has already raised a lot of money and roped in some big customers. Now it’s looking to broaden its footprint with a… Read more »
Cloudera is touting the speed of its Impala query engine compared to Hive and a leading relational database system, but those aren’t really apples-to-apples comparisons. The real question is how all… Read more »
Facebook’s open source engine for interactive queries on Hadoop is now available as a cloud service thanks to startup Qubole. Facebook claims Presto is 10 times faster than Hive for most queries. Read more »
If there was a NoSQL storm brewing earlier this decade, Hummer Winblad’s Mitchell Kertzman thinks it has all but died down. People thought NoSQL would blow up the SQL world, he… Read more »
A new data-analysis startup called Mode has launched, thanks to a $550,000 angel round led by Yammer Founder David Sacks. Mode targets data analysts with a GitHub-like service for sharing their… Read more »
San Juan Capistrano, Calif.-based startup Cirro is betting that there’s real value in piles of data scattered across corporate data stores, and it has closed an $8 million series A round… Read more »