3. DBAs get Oracle Database-style security controls. So Oracle Big Data SQL opens up table-based access to the data in Hadoop, but with access comes risk. Thus, Oracle gave this feature a way to apply ...

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The death of SQL has been greatly exaggerated. With all apologies to Mark Twain, the demise of Structured Query Language (SQL), having been forecasted for a while, is far from a done deal. In fact, ...

and update individual fields in a record," said Kelly Stirman, MongoDB's director of products. "Even if they get better, you still can't scale these systems." The model for scaling relational is ...

On Thursday, Google announced a whole series of database and data analytics improvements to its cloud data architecture. In this article, we'll focus on the substantial improvements to Spanner and ...

In the vast universe of IT, data is categorized as being either structured or unstructured, from a macro perspective. Generation of unstructured data is orders of magnitude higher than that generated ...

When it comes to implementing a big data strategy in a Microsoft SQL Server shop, you’re generally going to consider one of three strategies. In the first strategy, which I won’t be addressing today, ...