Anyone who's ever tried to build distributed applications (dApps) on the (Ethereum) blockchain would concur: Although blockchains are conceptually quite close to databases, querying databases feels ...

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 ...

Proof of SQL drastically reduces SQL query times from 30 minutes to sub-second speeds, promising significant efficiency gains for real-time data processing applications. A new zero-knowledge proof (ZK ...

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Today, a new company called Ahana, focused on analytics using the open source Presto query engine, is emerging from stealth and announcing it has raised $2.25M in seed funding. GV (formerly Google ...

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Company positions its Presto-based distributed SQL query technology, which provides access to data in any source, as an alternative to traditional data warehouse systems. Starburst Data, a big data ...

StarTree Inc., a company that’s commercializing the open-source Apache Pinot real-time data analytics platform, is setting its sights on the market for observability tools, saying it’s a ripe target ...

Here's a look at different ways to query Hadoop via SQL, some of which are part of the latest edition of MapR's Hadoop distribution SQL: old and busted. Hadoop: new hotness. That’s the conventional ...