Many programs have a tough time spanning across high levels of concurrency, but if they are cleverly coded, databases can make great use of massively parallel compute based in hardware to radically ...

Teradata, a long-time player in the massively parallel data warehouse space, has purchased Big Data Partnership, a London-based provider of big-data engineering, consulting and training, for an ...

Aster Data, a provider of data warehousing solutions for "big data" applications, yesterday announced Aster Data Version 4.0, which the company describes as the industry's first "Massively Parallel ...

The first generation of Azure SQL Data Warehouse (SQL DW) was announced in 2015, and SQL DW "Gen 2" reached general availability in 2018. Today, at its Ignite confab on Orlando, Microsoft is ...

Pivotal Software Inc. open sourced its SQL-based HAWQ analytics engine for Big Data processing. The company contributed HAWQ and MADlib, an associated parallel machine learning library -- which was ...

Microsoft's release of SQL Server 2008 R2 has sparked a bit of interest. There have been a number of changes to the database platform to make it more robust, scale and secure. Along with ...