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StarRocks today announced a fully-managed, cloud-native version of SQL engine to help enterprises with real-time analytics.

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 ...

Dremio, the leading SQL engine for Iceberg, achieves sub-second BI with Reflections Query Acceleration technology. Announced enhancements include recommendations for optimal query acceleration usage, ...

Microsoft's documenation for SQL Server on Linux clarifies things a bit here. Here's the specific wording: "It's the same SQL Server database engine (for both the Windows and Linux versions), with ...

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 ...

To address that issue, MapR Technologies created Apache Drill, an open source SQL query engine designed to generate schemas on demand. Available for the distribution of Hadoop crafted by MapR, Drill ...

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.