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 ...

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 ...

Actian is describing the newly announced Hadoop Edition of its analytics software as the first platform with full SQL support designed to run entirely natively on the distributed big-data framework.

At the Fluent Conference this week, John Furrier, host of theCube, invited Gary Nakamura, CEO of Concurrent Inc. Startup, to talk in-depth about the trajectory of his company from the seedfunding days ...

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Feb 27, 2013) - Strata 2013 Conference - Simba Technologies, the industry''s Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) expert for Big Data solutions, announced today ...

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 ...

MapR, the Hadoop vendor spearheading the Apache Drill project, has integrated an early version of the technology into its big data platform. The company is calling the current version of Drill, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft released two community technology preview (CTP) test versions of its Hadoop connectors today, one that works with Microsoft's current flagship SQL Server and other with its data warehouse ...