Splice Machine says the launch this week of its public beta opens up the Hadoop stack for the first time to a full-featured SQL database, capable of running transactions and analytics simultaneously.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from ...

Although there will always be instances where it makes more sense to use MapReduce with Hadoop, it’s pretty clear at this point that most enterprise IT organizations would rather use SQL. MapReduce is ...

On Thursday, Teradata announced a new analytical database platform that combines more traditional SQL database capabilities with the "big data" power of MapReduce, the analytical framework at the ...

Eight Ways to Put Hadoop to Work in Any IT Department Despite the fact that, from a technical perspective, Hadoop is closely aligned with the MapReduce interface for accessing data stored in Hadoop, ...

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 ...