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Tag: SQL on Hadoop

Big Performance Gains Seen Across SQL-on-Hadoop Engines

You can't really go wrong these days when it comes to picking a SQL-on-Hadoop engine. As long as you stick to the mainstream open source products like Hive, Impala, Spark SQL, and Presto, your SQL queries are likely runn Read more…

BI on Hadoop–What Are Your Options?

In the era of RDBMS and modern data warehouses, business intelligence was mostly a solved problem. Any reasonably advanced tool would work with any reasonable database, and the only real work was deciding what to collect Read more…

SQL-on-Hadoop Test: Each Engine Has ‘Sweet Spots’

Business intelligence has emerged as the top workload for Hadoop, ahead of data science and ETL. That has prompted bench markers to zero in on the performance of leading SQL-on-Hadoop engines for BI use cases. AtScale Read more…

Picking the Right SQL-on-Hadoop Tool for the Job

SQL is, arguably, the biggest workload many organizations run on their Hadoop clusters. And there's good reason why: The combination of a familiar interface (SQL) along with a modern computing architecture (Hadoop) enabl Read more…

Teradata Readies Links to Push Presto to Enterprises

Teradata Corp. said this week it would accelerate the open-source rollout of Presto, the SQL-on-Hadoop framework, by offering connectivity drivers for free. Teradata (TDC) said Monday (Sept. 28) it would provide at no Read more…

Inside Yellow Pages’ SQL-on-Hadoop Journey

Like many national companies, scale is important for Yellow Pages, or YP as the company is now known. So when the Georgia-based local marketing firm set out to find a suitable SQL engine to deliver real-time analytics a Read more…

Actian Claims ‘Permanent Performance Advantage’ with SQL-on-Hadoop Tool

The SQL-on-Hadoop sweepstakes are by no means over. What's been dubbed the "gateway drug" for Hadoop is just starting to gain traction. But according to Actian, its SQL-on-Hadoop offering, dubbed Vortex, is out to an ear Read more…

How Advances in SQL on Hadoop Are Democratizing Big Data–Part 2

In a previous article, we discussed several key advances in SQL on Hadoop that are making Big Data capabilities increasingly accessible to analytics organizations. While SQL democratizes Big Data by leveraging convention Read more…

MapR Puts Apache Drill into Hadoop Distro

Organizations today demand tools that provide familiar SQL-based access to data stored on HDFS. Today, MapR Technologies gave its customers yet another SQL interface when it announced support for Apache Drill 0.5 in the Read more…

Cloudera Releases Impala Into the Wild

The week, Cloudera announced that Impala, their SQL on Hadoop initiative, is moving out of public beta and into general availability. Datanami spoke with Cloudera to get an overview of the state of Impala, how they see it stacking up in the competitive landscape, and where the space will move in the near future. Read more…

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