Splice Machine has brought together technology from two Apache projects in its quest to create a SQL-on-Hadoop database.

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Kinesis Analytics will let users set up SQL queries that run on data that’s constantly updating, expanding the reach of the popular data analysis language beyond traditional database applications.

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Big Data SQL runs on Oracle's Big Data Appliance and is set up to play well with the tech titan's flagship Exadata database machine.