Everyone wants faster database queries, and both SQL developers and DBAs can turn to many time-tested methods to achieve that goal. Unfortunately, no single method is foolproof or ironclad. But even ...

Despite the increasing focus on offering more access to more users in organizations, ad hoc querying of big data remains a problem for most, according to Jair Aguirre, lead data scientist at Booz ...

As I discussed in an earlier column, SQL Server keeps a plan cached for each query it sees (assuming the query requires planning in the first place, of course). That's great for speeding up processing ...

Drill is also unique, says Norris, in that it was designed to scale across more data types than other ad hoc query methods for data in various stages of structure. Drill supports ANSI SQL standards, ...

Kinetica, the real time data analytics company, is announcing an integration between Kinetica’s analytic database and ChatGPT, marking the industry’s first database integration with the radically ...

Hybrid document-oriented, key-value database brings easy, ad hoc queries into the mix with a SQL-like query language Couchbase Server, similar to MongoDB and RethinkDB, is a document-oriented ...