Who rules the ring when it comes to Hadoop SQL query engine performance? Can flashy newcomers like Presto and Spark take an established giant like MapReduce to the matt? Comcast recently held a ...

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 ...

Teradata Corp., a Big Data analytics vendor, today announced it was throwing development resources at the open source Presto project, which provides a SQL query engine for interactive queries. Created ...

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) this week revealed that it has acquired Ampool, a provider of a distributed SQL engine based on the open source Presto project that allows users to access data stored ...

Ahana Cloud Inc., the commercial curator of the Presto distributed query engine, today announced a cloud-native offering of Presto as a service on the Amazon Web Services Inc. cloud. The company also ...

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 ...

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Denodo, a leader in data management, today announced that it has joined the Presto Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to overseeing the Presto ...

Microsoft has just added support for query hints to Azure SQL Database, giving database administrators a powerful tool to manage the performance of ISV application code. Here's how it works. Database ...