Aster Data has built a business out of map/reduce, and the release today of a thousand new SQL query building blocks—what it calls “functions”—is designed to give business users access to map/reduce ...

JSON has stolen some of XML's thunder with features such as human and machine readability, a lightweight, compact text structure and support for many software and hardware platforms. JSON (JavaScript ...

SQL is neither the fastest nor the most elegant way to talk to databases, but it is the best way we have. Here’s why Today, Structured Query Language is the standard means of manipulating and querying ...