Impala, part of Cloudera Distribution Including Apache Hadoop (CDH) 4.1, is a native SQL query engine that runs on Hadoop clusters, providing easy query access to raw HDFS data and to HBase databases.

Teradata Aster has launched a new tool which allows business analysts to work with Hadoop data through SQL query structures. Its Aster SQL-H provides a bridge between widely used business ...

SQL is, arguably, the biggest workload many organizations run on their Hadoop clusters. And there’s good reason why: The combination of a familiar interface (SQL) along with a modern computing ...

In a previous article, we discussed several key advances in SQL on Hadoop that are making Big Data capabilities increasingly accessible to analytics organizations. While SQL democratizes Big Data by ...

Now Teradata is making a "big data" play. The Aster SQL-MapReduce framework combines SQL with prepackaged MapReduce modules that are executed through an integrated Hadoop environment.

Microsoft released two community technology preview (CTP) test versions of its Hadoop connectors today, one that works with Microsoft's current flagship SQL Server and other with its data ...

MapR has integrated the Apache Drill SQL-on-Hadoop engine into its big data platform. MapR led the development of Drill, which is part of a larger movement within the company toward building a ...

In a live interview at Strata 2013, Howser stated that Hadapt believes “the worlds of SQL and Hadoop will converge” sometime into the future. Therefore, Hadapt’s efforts to bringing SQL to ...

SQL is the gateway drug to enterprise adoption says analysts at recent developer conference. Hadoop Summit, leading big data developer conference, saw the maturation of the Hadoop ecosystem ...

Out of the Hadoop box What's new is that now AtScale goes beyond Hadoop (in the cloud or on-premises), offering support for Teradata DW, Google Dataproc and BigQuery.