“SQL on everything” is the tagline associated with Presto, the query engine that was initially developed by Facebook to rapidly analyze massive amounts of data — particularly data that lay scattered ...

Query optimisation remains a critical discipline in database systems, underpinning the efficiency and responsiveness of data-driven applications. By selecting optimal execution plans, modern query ...

Of all the user personas across the data landscape, the data consumer is arguably the most difficult to appease. Oftentimes, such users are heedless of the backend processes required to service the ...

• The project is to develop an SQL query processor with JAVA and JAVACC. • The application can parse the SQL string, execute the query with data files and return the query result. • Developed query ...

This article is part of a VB Lab Insights series paid for by Capital One. For cloud-based companies, the ability to leverage nearly unlimited amounts of data can unlock possibilities that lead to more ...

I'm on a project that inherited some old generalized metadata search code and it can get terribly bogged down speed-wise. It's a bit annoying wait a couple minutes for a search to run: an example ...

Is it SQL, NoSQL, or NewSQL? Even though it's just naming conventions, MemSQL is usually thought of as part of the NewSQL lot. That is, databases grounded on the relational SQL model yet adopting some ...

71% of us would rather search via voice assistant than by physically typing in queries. Here are the six most important steps for voice search optimization. Have you ever tried to search for some data ...