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 ...

Thanks to the technology behind ChatGPT, it’s become surprisingly simple to query a data set in plain English. As with most generative AI, results from OpenAI’s API are still imperfect, which means ...

Data analytics contender Databricks offers a platform that, along with the open source Apache Spark technology on which its core is based, has long been a favorite for attacking streaming data, data ...

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 ...

An update to the cardinality estimator feature in SQL Server 2022 will be one of the biggest changes to the database engine since its inception. Database engines like SQL Server are incredibly complex ...

Starburst Data Inc., which sells a commercial distribution of the Trino distributed SQL query engine, used its third annual Datanova conference today to announce updates that it says significantly ...

As enterprises see an unprecedented increase in real-time data analytics, InfluxDB on Wednesday said that it was releasing a next-generation time series engine for its managed database service ...

A program that accepts SQL commands and accesses the database to obtain the requested data. Users' requests in a query language or database language must be translated into an SQL request before the ...

British mathematician and entrepreneur, Clive Humby coined the phrase “Data is the new oil” in 2006. Fifteen years later, the analogy still holds true. This is especially true for large businesses who ...

For all the hype surrounding Big Data, the one constant has been SQL. Despite some early chatter about replacing SQL, it remains the lingua franca for accessing data sources big and small. The only ...