The company outlines plans for SQL Server, including a new lower-cost workgroup version aimed at open source and other competitors. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and ...

Looker, provider of a BI platform, has added support for Presto and Spark SQL as well as updates to its support for Impala and Hive. Looker allows enterprises to describe, define and analyze the data ...

First created as part of a research project at UC Berkeley AMPLab, Spark is an open source project in the big data space, built for sophisticated analytics, speed, and ease of use. It unifies critical ...

Goldman Sachs says AI will boost productivity, cause a short spike in unemployment, and disrupt some jobs, but the impact will be brief. Acrobat Studio combines Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Express, and ...

With access to larger amounts of memory on both processors and via Flash cards, interest is starting to rise in in-memory databases that make it easier to combine transaction processing and analytics ...

Microsoft introduced a lower cost version of its database software on Wednesday, a move that could lead to further price cuts in the database market. The company plans to introduce SQL Server 2000 ...