Sybase CTO Irfan Khan said that adding MapReduce functionality to the Sybase IQ analytic should significantly boost its performance. Who says there is a war raging between traditional SQL database ...

Google Inc. late last week claimed that results of in-house data-sorting tests bolster its claims that its MapReduce technology can manipulate more data faster than any conventional database.

Singapore-based startup, Percipient, has developed a way to sidestep a common Hadoop big data function, thereby shortening query processing time by more than 15 times. Hadoop is an open source ...

Who says there is a war raging between traditional SQL database vendors and the upstarts touting the so-called ‘NoSQL’ technology? A slew of relational database vendors, ranging from startups touting ...