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Ignite, Microsoft's annual IT Pro and Developer confab kicks off today, with a slew of news in the data, analytics and AI areas of the company's stack, both in-cloud and on-premises.

For businesses that want to run analytics on low-cost Hadoop clusters, fully compliant SQL is now possible natively on the big data platform, according to Actian.

The biggest feature in the SQL Server 2019 preview launched at Ignite is SQL Server Big Data clusters. Travis Wright, Microsoft's principal program manager for SQL Server, explains exactly what ...

With growth in unstructured big data, RDBMS is inadequate for big data analytics. Know how to use SQL and MapReduce for big data analytics, instead.

Microsoft introduced a preview of the latest edition of its flagship RDBMS, SQL Server 2019, highlighting new Big Data capabilities integrated into the core database engine.

One of the critical decisions facing companies embarking on big data projects is which database to use, and often that decision swings between SQL and NoSQL. SQL has the impressive track record ...

The widely used Structured Query Language is gaining new life as a standard data access method for Big Data.

SQL continues to make inroads in the open source Big Data space this week, with Qubole open sourcing Quark for SQL virtualization, while MapR Technologies is converging SQL and JSON in the latest ...

Now Teradata is making a "big data" play. The Aster SQL-MapReduce framework combines SQL with prepackaged MapReduce modules that are executed through an integrated Hadoop environment.