Potentially raising the bar on SQL scalability, Facebook has released as open source a SQL query engine it developed called Presto that was built to work with petabyte-sized data warehouses. Currently ...

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) this week revealed that it has acquired Ampool, a provider of a distributed SQL engine based on the open source Presto project that allows users to access data stored ...

Streaming data specialist Redpanda on Tuesday revealed the acquisition of SQL database vendor Oxla and introduced the Agentic Data Plane for training and managing AI tools. Once integrated with ...

On Aug. 8, 2012, a group of engineers at Facebook started the Presto project, introducing a new SQL query engine to help the social media giant to scale. After a decade of growth, the technology is ...

Data analytics contender Databricks offers a platform that, along with the open source Apache Spark technology on which its core is based, has long been a favorite for attacking streaming data, data ...

A program that accepts SQL commands and accesses the database to obtain the requested data. Users' requests in a query language or database language must be translated into an SQL request before the ...

A new open-source project wants to take analytics to the next level. BlazingSQL is a GPU-accelerated SQL engine built on the RAPIDS ecosystem. RAPIDS is an open-source suite of software libraries for ...

Open table formats such as Apache Iceberg standardize data and metadata semantics across engines, but they do not provide SQL dialect interoperability, leaving identifier resolution to each engine. In ...