Oracle is hoping to turn heads in the crowded data analysis market with Big Data SQL, a software tool that can run a single SQL query against Oracle’s own database as well as Hadoop and NoSQL data ...

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 ...

In an age of NoSQL and Hadoop, original "Big 3" RDBMS vendor Oracle Corp. is getting back to its roots with a new product designed to integrate access across all three data stores with a single SQL ...

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, ...

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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 ...

As AI continues to dominate the technology landscape, the data underlying the information these artificial intelligence solutions train on is under more scrutiny than ever. Here, data professionals ...

Despite the growth of “NoSQL” databases over the past few years, SQL is going nowhere isn’t going anywhere. In fact, it seems Structured Query Language is in ascendance in a realm that once seemed ...

Full disclosure: I am a co-author of an upcoming book on SQL Server 2012, and I do a lot of work with Microsoft. Why would a new version of SQL Server be a big deal for this blog? As a mainstream ...