Qubole Inc., the cloud analytics vendor, has added a serverless engine to its platform aimed at simplifying complex tasks like creating data pipelines and server clusters used to scale analytics ...

Not all SQL engines are built the same, however, and there were some notable differences in performance on the different query types. Impala and Spark tended to outperform Hive and Presto overall, ...

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The last two years have witnessed a significant proliferation in the number of SQL engines that can be layered in on top of Hadoop. Now Pivotal, a unit of EMC, is moving to try to consolidate all ...

Facebook is open-sourcing Presto, an SQL query engine that it developed in-house to help analysts, data scientists and engineers pick apart the information stored in its enormous 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.

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.

A new benchmark of SQL-on-Hadoop engines Impala, Spark and Hive finds they each have their own strengths and weaknesses when it comes to Business Intelligence (BI) workloads.

Google has unveiled Google Cloud SQL, a cloud database for Google App Engine developers, a move that comes as Oracle and Salesforce also sharpen their cloud database strategies.

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 ...