Traditionally, each time an ... sets in memory. SQL Server 2012 then borrowed this columnar processing technique for its own use. As an example of how the new SQL Server could speed performance ...

A common SQL habit is to use SELECT * on a query, because it’s tedious to list all the columns you need. Plus, sometimes those columns may change over time ... you can speed things up for ...

One set of features that I really like focus on adaptive query processing. These new features speed processing of workloads ... functions (TVFs): In older releases, SQL Server was notorious for having ...

IBM will be joining Cloudera, Hortonworks, and others in the great SQL-on-Hadoop performance race when it ships Big SQL version 3 next month. In addition to peddling unadulterated speed ... that have ...

The next version of Microsoft's relational database management system (RDMS) promises to bring immense performance gains to online transactional processing systems.

Actian today made available an update to an embedded database that promises to increase SQL query ... results of that processing can then be shared more efficiently shared over limited WAN bandwidth.

Query tuning is key to peak performance in SQL Server databases. However, lots of developers and DBAs constantly struggle to pinpoint the root cause of performance issues and spend way too much time ...

Apache Spark's Structured Streaming brings SQL querying capabilities to data streams, allowing you to perform scalable, real-time ... work at the speed of Spark’s continuous processing, you ...

SQL Stream Builder adds to Cloudera Dataflow, which includes edge processing, real-time data ingestion, along with support for other streaming engines such as Kafka Streams, Spark Streaming ...