An overview of 12 open source and commercial SQL-on-Hadoop tools: Apache Hive, Apache Sqoop, Apache Phoenix, Impala, Presto, BigSQL, CitusDB, Hadapt, Jethro, Lingual, and HAWQ.

On Monday April 7th an OpenSSL security update was released for the “Heartbleed” vulnerability. Here at Xplenty we’ve immediately installed the security update to protect ourselves from this vulnerability and...

In his recent article “Turbocharge Your Porsche - Buy An Elephant”, Bill Inmon, “the father of data warehousing”, criticizes Cloudera for associating Big Data with the data warehouse, two totally...

Introducing Apache Hadoop to the organization can be difficult - everyone is trained and experienced in the old ways of SQL and all the analytics tools integrate with SQL. Certain...

Relational databases are here to stay - they are common, integrate with other information systems, do a good job of querying structured data, and people know how to use them....

Despite the Hadoop hype machine crunching away, not everyone is fond of that little yellow elephant. In fact, some fear it. But why should the cute mammal and the innovative...

Mortal Kombat’s master of ice Sub-Zero and the living-dead fire breathing Scorpion are major archenemies. As the story goes, Sub-Zero and his clan of assassin ninjas slaughtered their rival clan,...

The Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics were the most celebrated winter games on the net. Their official website had more visitors in one night than Vancouver 2010 had during the entire...

Ken and Ryu are both the best of friends and the greatest of rivals in the Street Fighter game series. When it comes to Hadoop data storage on the cloud...