If you suspected the title of this blog is click-bait, then you would be correct. But bear with me anyway on a little retrospection of the relational database market— where it has been and where I ...

The market is abuzz with terms like NoSQL, Big Data, NewSQL, Database Appliance, etc. Often, IT decision makers can get very confused with all the noise. They do not understand why they should ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from ...

Last issue I talked about Thor Technologies, its new round of funding and its “best of breed” solutions. But what the Thor folks really wanted to talk about was the use of SQL-based relational ...

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Apache Hadoop is a comprehensive ecosystem which now features many open source components that can fundamentally change an enterprise’s approach to storing, processing, and analyzing data. Unlike ...

Data indexing is key element for fast content retrieval from a RDBMS. Default SQL tables come with a rather large primary key, ie. which includes all aggregation primitives, but without any secondary ...

This project aims to move the data from a Relational database system (RDBMS) to a Hadoop file system (HDFS). Here are the technology stacks we will use in this project. Please feel free to turn the ...