The company outlines plans for SQL Server, including a new lower-cost workgroup version aimed at open source and other competitors. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and ...

Enriching Apache Spark so it’s not just a platform but also a store is just part of the innovation occurring at SnappyData Inc., according to Jags Ramnarayan (pictured), founder and chief technical ...

Continuing its campaign to evangelize the virtues of the SQL query language while also embracing alternatives, MemSQL, Inc. is rolling out a connector for the popular Apache Spark framework that it ...

First created as part of a research project at UC Berkeley AMPLab, Spark is an open source project in the big data space, built for sophisticated analytics, speed, and ease of use. It unifies critical ...

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Redis Labs is offering integration with Spark SQL, and releasing a Spark-Redis connector package that promises to accelerate processing time. Redis Labs is a commercial provider of Redis, the open ...

Looking to combine the best real-time attributes of NoSQL databases, DataStax this week unveiled a DataStax Enterprise 4.5 database platform that combines Cassandra with the Apache Spark in-memory ...

Microsoft introduced a lower cost version of its database software on Wednesday, a move that could lead to further price cuts in the database market. The company plans to introduce SQL Server 2000 ...