The death of SQL has been greatly exaggerated. With all apologies to Mark Twain, the demise of Structured Query Language (SQL), having been forecasted for a while, is far from a done deal. In fact, ...

One of the critical decisions facing companies embarking on big data projects is which database to use, and often that decision swings between SQL and NoSQL. SQL has the impressive track record, the ...

SQL continues to make inroads in the open source Big Data space this week, with Qubole Inc. open sourcing Quark for SQL virtualization, while MapR Technologies Inc. is converging SQL and JSON in the ...

In the vast universe of IT, data is categorized as being either structured or unstructured, from a macro perspective. Generation of unstructured data is orders of magnitude higher than that generated ...

Oracle's new Big Data SQL will allow businesses to run a single SQL query across Hadoop, NoSQL, and Oracle Database. The program seeks to reduce the need for moving data between systems. Big Data SQL ...

There’s no question that investing in data systems and infrastructure can make organizations more competitive and allow for new, exciting innovations. This makes every company a data company. But ...