The performances of Amazon and Cloudera stand out from the pack in Gartner's new data warehousing Magic Quadrant. Both are oh-so-close to breaking through into leadership roles.
- By Steve Swoyer
- April 7, 2016
Microsoft is rolling into the BI town on a big bandwagon with their forthcoming SQL Server 2016 release this summer. Who will be the winners and losers when the dust settles?
- By Jake Dolezal
- March 30, 2016
NoSQL technologies were developed to address the scaling and availability issues unique to Web application development. We explore the ACID vs. BASE dilemma for enterprises.
- By Steve Swoyer
- March 22, 2016
Two companies take a different approach to building the better-than-data warehouse data warehouse.
- By Steve Swoyer
- March 9, 2016
Almost two years on, it looks as if Spark SQL, the SQL interpreter for the red-hot Spark cluster computing framework, is shaping up to be a query-processing powerhouse.
- By Steve Swoyer
- March 8, 2016
Edge analytics is the new form of smart analytics that can help your enterprise find the best data faster. Plus why swarms are smarter than the experts and picking the right open source solutions for database building.
- By Quint Turner
- February 5, 2016
Take being a change agent on as your duty as a data professional, sitting on the "gold" of the organization -- data. To get you started, here are six ROI-producing (and fun) data technologies to deploy now.
- By William McKnight
- February 2, 2016
Highlights of the major business intelligence events in 2015, the year when do-it-yourself business intelligence took off.
- By Steve Swoyer
- December 15, 2015