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

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 ...

Oracle has announced SQL access to data stored in an Oracle Big Data Appliance, initially from Exadata systems, but over time from other models in its Engineered Systems family and then from ...

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 ...

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.

Learn more about the Foundations for Big Data Analysis with SQL course here including a course overview, cost information, related jobs and more.

Now, it’s time to follow up with a discussion of Microsoft’s cloud-centric approach to big data using HDInsight. Microsoft SQL Server and Big Data in the Cloud HDInsight is a 100% Apache Hadoop ...

Teradata brings big data into the SQL family Teradata addresses the issue of combining unstructured, semi-structured and traditional row-and-column data warehousing in a single architecture.

Oracle's latest big idea for big data aims to eliminate data silos with new software connecting the dots between the Oracle Database, Hadoop and NoSQL.