DUBLIN, Calif., July 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Sybase, Inc., an SAP® company (NYSE: SAP) and industry leader in enterprise and mobile software, today announced the general availability of Sybase® IQ 15.3 ...

Facebook yesterday open sourced Presto, its distributed SQL query engine built to improve Big Data analytics beyond existing solutions such as Hadoop MapReduce and Hive. The improvements are ...

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DGIST developed a new graph-based database partitioning method and its system implementation showed 4.2 times faster performance on average than Apacke Spark SQL DGIST developed a core technology that ...

OGSA-DAI (Open Grid Services Architecture Data Access and Integration) is a framework for building distributed data access and integration systems. Until recently, it lacked the built-in functionality ...

SAP AG has acquired a small California software vendor in a move to enhance the data integration capabilities in its business software, SAP officials said. SAP has bought Callixa Inc., a San Francisco ...

Spatial data processing and query algorithms underpin a critical component of modern geospatial analysis, enabling efficient handling and interrogation of vast and complex datasets. Contemporary ...

When the Big Data moniker is applied to a discussion, it’s often assumed that Hadoop is, or should be, involved. But perhaps that’s just doctrinaire. Hadoop, at its core, consists of HDFS (the Hadoop ...

I started using APL for data analysis around 1972. The powerful language, based on a 1962 book by Ken Iverson, A Programming Language, was and is notable for three things: its use of Greek letters and ...