Qubole Inc., the cloud analytics vendor, has added a serverless engine to its platform aimed at simplifying complex tasks like creating data pipelines and server clusters used to scale analytics ...

A program that accepts SQL commands and accesses the database to obtain the requested data. Users' requests in a query language or database language must be translated into an SQL request before the ...

Created by the social-media giant for its huge data warehouse and open-sourced in November 2013, Presto is a SQL engine designed for low-latency interactive analysis of data sources of all sizes. It ...

Qubole, the data platform founded by Apache Hive creator and former head of Facebook’s Data Infrastructure team Ashish Thusoo, today announced the launch of Quantum, its first serverless offering.

The last two years have witnessed a significant proliferation in the number of SQL engines that can be layered in on top of Hadoop. Now Pivotal, a unit of EMC, is moving to try to consolidate all ...

While there is clearly no shortage of ways to invoke SQL against Hadoop, the Presto SQL engine developed by Facebook has clearly proven it can scale. This week, Teradata threw its weight behind the ...

Confluent today unveiled KSQL, a SQL engine for Apache Kafka designed to enable users to run continuous interactive SQL queries on streaming data. The new software, which is currently in developer ...

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 ...

Qubole, a big data-as-a-service company, is open sourcing its Quark platform, a cost-based SQL optimizer. The Quark project is also available in a SaaS implementation via the Qubole Data Service (QDS) ...

Google has created a relational database for its cloud-hosted App Engine application development and hosting platform, a much-requested addition, the company said on Thursday. For now, the database, ...