Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. farm-ccapp.jpg The Climate Corporation app allows farms, soil, and weather to be monitored from anywhere. Image: Lyndsey ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Big Data is supposed to level the business playing field, but up until now it has not. Because even though it’s cheaper to store data in Hadoop or to work with open source NoSQL in theory, it’s too ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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