Instead of flying blind with SQL query performance, the company decided to pit the Hadoop engines against each other in a no-holds barred competition, or what Comcast Principal Architect Michael Fagan ...

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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.

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 ...

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 ...

While there is clearly no shortage of ways to invoke SQL against Hadoop, the Presto SQL engine developed by Facebook has clearly proven it can scale. This week, Teradata threw its weight behind the ...

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 ...

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.

Only a temporary reprieve until GitHub Copilot integration is up and running Microsoft's policy of inserting Copilot into ...

Confluent today unveiled KSQL, a SQL engine for Apache Kafka designed to enable users to run continuous interactive SQL queries on streaming data. The new software, which is currently in developer ...