Remember when SQL developers felt threatened by Big Data? Relational database management systems were old-school relics that couldn't cope with the vast amounts of unstructured, disparate data. NoSQL ...

“I don’t think that warehouses are going to go anywhere anytime soon,” Adriana Zubiri, program director of BigData Development at IBM, told theCUBE, SiliconANGLE’s Media team, at Hadoop Summit 2015.

In the birth of the Big Data revolution, first there was Apache Hadoop, leveraging the batch-oriented MapReduce processing engine and scale-out NoSQL databases. Ever since, the technology has been ...

Bernie Sprang, the executive in charge of database software for IBM’s software group, hopped into theCube at IOD 2012 to talk about the technological side of the big data PureData, his company’s ...

Hadoop continues to operate as a looming influence in the world of big data, and that holds true with the unveiling of the next step in Oracle's big data roadmap. The Redwood Shores, ...

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, ...

IBM will be joining Cloudera, Hortonworks, and others in the great SQL-on-Hadoop performance race when it ships Big SQL version 3 next month. In addition to peddling unadulterated speed, IBM will be ...

Another interesting session I attended at the PASS Summit in Seattle was one concerning dealing with VLDBs in SQL Server. It was called “Big Data – Working with Terabytes in SQL Server” presented by ...

Microsoft introduced a preview of the latest edition of its flagship RDBMS, SQL Server 2019, highlighting new Big Data capabilities. The company said v2019 creates a unified data platform by packaging ...

Microsoft announced late last month that it'll be ending support for two SQL Server capabilities, with cloud services and SQL Server 2022 typically proposed as replacements. The SQL Server 2019 Big ...