A recent update to Amazon Aurora merges transactional and analytical database models to rev up results for some AWS users. The Amazon Aurora Parallel Query feature, which was in preview since February ...

What is an MPP database (massively parallel processing database)? An MPP, or massively parallel processing, database is a database that is optimized to be processed in parallel for many operations to ...

The tide is changing for analytics architectures. Traditional approaches, from the data warehouse to the data lake, implicitly assume that all relevant data can be stored in a single, centralized ...

Citus Data has launched CitusDB for Hadoop, a service that can process petabytes of data within seconds. The offering shows once again that the new class of analytics databases that can analyze ...

When the Big Data moniker is applied to a discussion, it’s often assumed that Hadoop is, or should be, involved. But perhaps that’s just doctrinaire. Hadoop, at its core, consists of HDFS (the Hadoop ...