Microsoft's PolyBase mashes up SQL Server and Hadoop
Microsoft is not the first company to mash up relational MPP technology with Hadoop, but it may be the most impactful player to do so.
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Veteran data geek Andrew Brust covers Big Data technologies including Hadoop, NoSQL, Data Warehousing, BI and Predictive Analytics.
Andrew Brust
Andrew J. Brust has worked in the software industry for 25 years as a developer, consultant, entrepreneur and CTO, specializing in application development, databases and business intelligence technology.
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Tableau 8 unveiled. Can it keep the good times rolling?
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Pentaho launches new version of suite, mobile app
Open source BI Vendor Pentaho revs its business analytics suite and releases a new mobile HTML 5 client for iPad.
Big data: Why it's really an architecture challenge
For big data to amount to a serious asset that business and operations can exploit, datacentres will have to take a long, hard look at infrastructure and architecture.
NYC Data Week News Wraps-Up
Strata + Hadoop World NYC is done, but cataloging the Big Data announcements isn't. This post aims to remedy that.
Cloudera’s Impala brings Hadoop to SQL and BI
Big Data darling Cloudera's Impala product promotes SQL to peer-level with MapReduce.
Strata + Hadoop World opens, brings Big Data announcements
At Strata + Hadoop World in New York, Big Data vendors announced products and partnerships that the push of Hadoop into the Enterprise.
More Big Data news: Datameer, Nominum/IBM, Actuate/Quiterian
Datameer launches an App Market, Nominum partners with IBM for "Big DNS" analytics, and open source BI player Actuate acquires Big Data analytics provider Quiterian.
NYC Data Week, Day 1: IBM, Tervela, Cisco and SiSense announce
Strata + Hadoop World NYC opens tomorrow. NYC Data week starts today, and so have the product announcements.
Gartner, IBM, Teradata make Big Data announcements
Gartner releases a report on Big Data spending; IBM and Oxford release a Big Data study; Teradata Aster launches a new appliance integrating MPP technology and Hadoop.