Aerospike, Inc., a real-time data platform provider, is introducing Aerospike SQL Powered by Starburst, enabling customers to run massively parallel, complex SQL queries on petabyte-scale data stored ...

AWS has announced Parallel Query for Amazon Aurora. According to the company, this provides faster analytical queries over transactional data that can speed up queries by up to 2 orders of magnitude, ...

A common SQL habit is to use SELECT * on a query, because it’s tedious to list all the columns you need. Plus, sometimes those columns may change over time, so why not just do things the easy way? But ...

Here's a look at different ways to query Hadoop via SQL, some of which are part of the latest edition of MapR's Hadoop distribution SQL: old and busted. Hadoop: new hotness. That’s the conventional ...

Driven by the rapid hardware development of parallel CPU/GPU architectures, the authors have witnessed emerging relational query processing techniques and implementations on those parallel ...

There is a disconnect between the database engines that underpin both relational databases and the SQL front ends that have been grafted onto Hadoop analytics tools and the underlying hardware on ...