But if customers need to choose between a SQL engine that runs only over Spark, and one that can do that and run over Hadoop MapReduce and Apache Tez as well, Spark SQL may have some explaining to do.

Instead of flying blind with SQL query performance, the company decided to pit the Hadoop engines against each other in a no-holds barred competition, or what Comcast Principal Architect Michael Fagan ...

Test figures published by social network Facebook are designed to show the results of a series of advances in the Presto open-source query engine, including a new ORC reader.

Indeed, Quantum is essentially just another SQL engine without Qubole’s overall suite of engines. Typically, Qubole charges enterprises by compute minutes.

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 ...

StarRocks today announced a fully-managed, cloud-native version of SQL engine to help enterprises with real-time analytics.

Confluent today unveiled KSQL, a SQL engine for Apache Kafka designed to enable users to run continuous interactive SQL queries on streaming data. The new software, which is currently in developer ...