On the eve of another Strata week, EMC Greenplum announced Pivotal HD, a Hadoop distribution that is tightly integrated with an MPP database engine called HAWQ. What all this alphabet soup means is ...

A new open source startup is setting out to help software development teams glean deeper insights from their codebases, using SQL to query all the data sources they use in the software building ...

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Yugabyte, provider of an open source SQL database based on a document database architecture, today announced it has garnered an additional $48 million funding. The funding will be employed to advance ...

Proof of SQL drastically reduces SQL query times from 30 minutes to sub-second speeds, promising significant efficiency gains for real-time data processing applications. A new zero-knowledge proof (ZK ...

"It's really about choice," Rohan Kumar, Microsoft's General Manager, Database Systems, told me yesterday as he briefed me on the new offerings. Kumar further explained: "if you're a developer, you ...

PipelineDB, a Y Combinator Winter 2014 graduate, announced the availability of the open source version of its streaming SQL database product today. A commercial version is expected later this year.

Cockroach Labs is also offering its enterprise features as open source and trusting enterprises will pay for what they use in production CockroachDB, an open source, fault-tolerant SQL database with ...

SQL continues to make inroads in the open source Big Data space this week, with Qubole Inc. open sourcing Quark for SQL virtualization, while MapR Technologies Inc. is converging SQL and JSON in the ...