SQL is neither the fastest nor the most elegant way to talk to databases, but it is the best way we have. Here’s why Today, Structured Query Language is the standard means of manipulating and ...

Without SQL’s gift for entering databases simply and swiftly ... privacy violations and regulatory breaches, and queries designed to overwhelm a server to the point where operations slow or halt. From ...

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 ...