Facebook yesterday open sourced Presto, its distributed SQL query engine built to improve Big Data analytics beyond existing solutions such as Hadoop MapReduce and Hive. The improvements are ...

JethroData has developed a SQL-on-Hadoop engine that acts as a business intelligence-on-Hadoop acceleration layer that speeds up big data queries from BI tools like Tableau, Qlik and MicroStrategy to ...

SAN MATEO, Calif., April 6, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- AtScale, the first company to provide enterprises with a fast and secure self-service Business Intelligence platform for Big Data, released today the ...

The new Amazon Athena tool from Amazon Web Services Inc.(AWS) enables serverless queries of large amounts of data stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), obviating the need to spin up ...

Hadoop is a notoriously difficult system on which to run interactive queries. JethroData developed a SQL-on-Hadoop engine that acts as a business intelligence-on-Hadoop acceleration layer that speeds ...

AMPLab, the UC Berkeley research unit famous for creating the wildly popular Apache Spark technology, has now developed an adjunct open source project that uses data compression for faster queries.

TEL AVIV, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Varada, a big data query acceleration innovator, announced today that it has closed a $12 million Series A round of funding. The round is led by MizMaa Ventures, an ...

Google wants to make all blockchain data associated with Ethereum easily accessible for people to study. It’s doing that by making all Ethereum data sets available through BigQuery, Google’s ...

Elad Israeli is cofounder and CPO of SiSense. Big Data is a vague term so business user beware. You have to understand what big data can actually do and what are its limitations. As you map your ...