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 ...

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Apache Spark may have gained fame for being a better and faster processing engine than MapReduce running in Hadoop clusters. But the in-memory software is increasingly finding use outside of Hadoop, ...

With access to larger amounts of memory on both processors and via Flash cards, interest is starting to rise in in-memory databases that make it easier to combine transaction processing and analytics ...

MemSQL has introduced the MemSQL Spark Connector. According to the vendor, the combination of an in-memory database from MemSQL and Spark's memory optimized processing framework gives enterprises the ...

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 ...