Confluent today unveiled KSQL, a SQL engine for Apache Kafka designed to enable users to run continuous interactive SQL queries on streaming data. The new software, which is currently in developer ...

Potentially raising the bar on SQL scalability, Facebook has released as open source a SQL query engine it developed called Presto that was built to work with petabyte-sized data warehouses ...

But if customers need to choose between a SQL engine that runs only over Spark, and one that can do that and run over Hadoop MapReduce and Apache Tez as well, Spark SQL may have some explaining to do.

While there is clearly no shortage of ways to invoke SQL against Hadoop, the Presto SQL engine developed by Facebook has clearly proven it can scale. This week, Teradata threw its weight behind the ...

During this preview period, Google Cloud SQL will be free of charge. Google will announce pricing a month before it starts charging for it. “You can now choose to power your App Engine ...

Test figures published by social network Facebook are designed to show the results of a series of advances in the Presto open-source query engine, including a new ORC reader.

Qubole, a big data-as-a-service company, is open sourcing its Quark platform, a cost-based SQL optimizer. The Quark project is also available in a SaaS implementation via the Qubole Data Service (QDS) ...

Instead of flying blind with SQL query performance, the company decided to pit the Hadoop engines against each other in a no-holds barred competition, or what Comcast Principal Architect Michael Fagan ...

On Thursday, Google added a good old fashioned SQL database to Google App Engine, a means of building and hosting applications atop Google's online infrastructure. The Google infrastructure is ...

Potentially raising the bar on SQL scalability, Facebook has released as open source a SQL query engine it developed called Presto that was built to work with petabyte-sized data warehouses.