Databricks SQL is a key component in the company’s ambition to construct a data lakehouse architecture that blends the best of data lakes, which are based on object storage systems, and traditional ...

Teradata has fired the starting pistol in the race to make unstructured, semi-structured and traditional row-and-column data warehousing manageable and accessible in a single integrated architecture.

Ten years ago, SQL Server instances were cautiously being moved to on-prem virtual machines, observed Kathi Kellenberger, editor of the Simple Talk blog at Redgate and a Microsoft Data Platform MVP.

Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz, Architecture Director at Nice Systems, points out that SQL still has the edge when it comes to reporting functionality, security and manageability. On the other hand, he admits, ...