AI
Vast Data Intentionally Blurs The Line Between Storage And Database
Depending on how you look at it, a database is a kind of sophisticated storage system or storage is a kind of a reduction of a database. …
SQL
Store
Spanning The Database World With Google
If relational databases had just worked at scale to begin with, the IT sector would be a whole lot more boring and we wouldn’t be having a conversation with Andrew Fikes, the vice president and Engineering Fellow at search engine, application, and cloud computing giant Google who has been instrumental in the creation of many of its databases and datastores since joining the company in 2001. …
Compute
It’s About Time For Time Series Databases
To get straight to the point: nobody wants to have large grain snapshots of data for any dataset that is actually comprised of a continuous stream of data points. …
AI
Flare Gives Spark SQL a Performance Boost
Spark has grown rapidly over the past several years to become a significant tool in the big data world. …
AI
Baidu Takes FPGA Approach to Accelerating SQL at Scale
While much of the work at Baidu we have focused on this year has centered on the Chinese search giant’s deep learning initiatives, many other critical, albeit less bleeding edge applications present true big data challenges. …
AI
Making Spark and Hadoop Run SQL Better And Faster
Here’s an image for you. There is no such thing as a data lake. …
AI
Pivotal Takes A Quickstep To Leapfrog Database Performance
There is a disconnect between the database engines that underpin both relational databases and the SQL front ends that have been grafted onto Hadoop analytics tools and the underlying hardware on which these databases run. …
Code
SQL Will Inevitably Come To NoSQL Databases
The name might be short for Not Only SQL, but to be a proper database that can be used by normal enterprises and not just by hyperscalers with their fleets of PhDs, any database, whether it is a relational or NoSQL, has to be able to support the Structured Query Language that has been associated with relational databases from day one. …