Just when big data vendors got used to Hive, the Facebook-created open-source tool for querying big datasets on Hadoop, here comes an even faster alternative. Called Presto, the new tool also comes ...

Karmasphere has introduced Karmasphere Analyst, productivity software for data professionals working with massive data sets. "Karmasphere is focused on providing software for developers and analysts ...

The Facebook Presto interactive SQL-on-Hadoop engine is now open source. Presto is Facebook’s take on Cloudera’s Impala or Google’s Dremel, and it already has some big-name fans in Airnb and Dropbox.

PALO ALTO, Calif., Oct. 7 — Altiscale, Inc., a leading innovator in Hadoop-as-a-Service (HaaS) solutions, today announced a comprehensive SQL-on-Hadoop offering for the Altiscale Data Cloud. The ...

MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the top-ranked distribution for Apache™ Hadoop®, has announced the addition of Apache Drill 0.5 to the MapR Distribution including Hadoop. Bringing next-generation ...

Hive lets you use SQL on Hadoop, but tuning SQL on a distributed system is different. Here are 12 tips to help your effort fly Hive is not an RDBMS, but it pretends to be one most of the time. It has ...

It's a bit of an adage in the software world that when a product gets to its third version, it really hits its stride. First versions are usually what we now call minimally-viable product (MVP) ...

Microsoft has upgraded its open source analytics services running on Azure with a new version of Hadoop incorporating enhancements of Apache Hive and other open source analytics frameworks. The ...