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Actian Eyes ‘Hybrid Data’ With First NoSQL Database

Resurgent analytical database vendor Actian Corp. expanded its focus on the enterprise with the release of an object-oriented NoSQL database. Actian, Palo Alto, Calif., said Tuesday (June 13) its first NoSQL database Read more…

Actian Stages Comeback With Hybrid Database

Actian Corp., which reportedly dropped out of the analytical database market last fall, is making a comeback with the release of a hybrid database that combines transaction processing with its analytics query engine A Read more…

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…

Actian Reasserts Performance Claims With VectorH

The latest version of SQL-on-Hadoop specialist Actian Corp.'s Vector database tightens integration with Apache Spark to widen access to new data sources while adding enterprise features required to move Hadoop-based anal Read more…

Teradata Bets Big on Presto for Hadoop SQL

Teradata today revealed it's making a major investment in Presto, the SQL-on-Hadoop framework originally developed at Facebook to power interactive queries against its massive data warehouse. Not only is Teradata steppin Read more…

Where Does InfiniDB Go From Here?

Last September, the company behind InfiniDB, Calpont, went out of business. Up stepped MariaDB, the company behind the open source relational database, to serve as a steward for the product and provide support to custome 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…

Graph Analytics Poised to Solve Tough Big Data Problems

Hadoop has emerged as the go-to platform for sifting through massive amounts of data on commodity machines. But when it comes to certain types of analytic workloads with open-ended problems, nothing beats a graph databas Read more…

Moving Beyond ‘Traditional’ Hadoop: What Comes Next?

The phrase "traditional Hadoop" was heard early and often at this week's 2014 Hadoop Summit. While first-generation Hadoop technologies unlocked previously unseen potential in big data sets, it pales in comparison to wha Read more…

Actian Aims to Engulf Impala with ‘Vortex’

Actian has ported its column-oriented analytic database, Vector, to run natively on Hadoop as part of Actian Analytic Platform Hadoop Edition, better known as "Project Vortex." Actian says parallelizing the Vector X100 e Read more…