Two weeks ago, Microsoft announced its commitment to Hadoop and promised to release new connectors to promote interoperability between Hadoop and SQL Server. Today we are announcing the availability ...

TDWI research shows that data warehouse professionals are increasingly adopting Hadoop as part of a modern multiplatform data warehouse. A TDWI survey that ran in 2012 found that 10 percent of data ...

Unless a "neutral" third party publishes them, we tend to view benchmarks as self-serving exercises that vendors typically stack in their own favor. But recent benchmarks issued by Cloudera and ...

SQL on Hadoop is a framework that allows users to leverage the power of Apache Hadoop in running Structured Query Language (SQL) queries. Apache Hadoop is an open-source software platform that is ...

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On and off, over the years, I have followed and written about the SQL-on-Hadoop saga. The adventure started with Apache Hive, which originally provided a SQL layer on top of MapReduce, bringing new ...

Commercial Hadoop distributor Cloudera is first out of the gate with a true SQL layer that sits atop Hadoop. It lets normal people – if you can call people who've mastered SQL normal – perform ad hoc ...

This repository expands on my earlier Docker-Hadoop repository where I put together a basic HDFS/YARN/MapReduce system. In the present repository I explore various SQL-on-Hadoop options by spelling ...