and update individual fields in a record," said Kelly Stirman, MongoDB's director of products. "Even if they get better, you still can't scale these systems." The model for scaling relational is ...

3. DBAs get Oracle Database-style security controls. So Oracle Big Data SQL opens up table-based access to the data in Hadoop, but with access comes risk. Thus, Oracle gave this feature a way to apply ...

In an age of NoSQL and Hadoop, original "Big 3" RDBMS vendor Oracle Corp. is getting back to its roots with a new product designed to integrate access across all three data stores with a single SQL ...

SQL continues to make inroads in the open source Big Data space this week, with Qubole Inc. open sourcing Quark for SQL virtualization, while MapR Technologies Inc. is converging SQL and JSON in the ...

When it comes to implementing a big data strategy in a Microsoft SQL Server shop, you’re generally going to consider one of three strategies. In the first strategy, which I won’t be addressing today, ...