As I described here, Power BI can send SQL queries in parallel in DirectQuery mode and you can see from the Timeline column there is some parallelism happening here – the last two SQL queries ...

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 ...

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 ...

Combining streaming, SQL, and Iceberg for cloud to air-gapped environments enabling governed data access to safely accelerate the production of enterprise AI agents SAN FRANCISCO, October 28, ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Cory Benfield discusses the evolution of ...

For all the hype surrounding Big Data, the one constant has been SQL. Despite some early chatter about replacing SQL, it remains the lingua franca for accessing data sources big and small. The only ...

Ahana Cloud Inc., the commercial curator of the Presto distributed query engine, today announced a cloud-native offering of Presto as a service on the Amazon Web Services Inc. cloud. The company also ...

Created by the social-media giant for its huge data warehouse and open-sourced in November 2013, Presto is a SQL engine designed for low-latency interactive analysis of data sources of all sizes. It ...

Cloudera, the company behind the most widely deployed Hadoop distribution, did something surprising yesterday at Strata + Hadoop World, NYC. Instead of beckoning "old school" database and BI ...

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 ...