What is an MPP database (massively parallel processing database)? An MPP, or massively parallel processing, database is a database that is optimized to be processed in parallel for many operations to ...

A recent update to Amazon Aurora merges transactional and analytical database models to rev up results for some AWS users. The Amazon Aurora Parallel Query feature, which was in preview since February ...

The tide is changing for analytics architectures. Traditional approaches, from the data warehouse to the data lake, implicitly assume that all relevant data can be stored in a single, centralized ...

Citus Data has launched CitusDB for Hadoop, a service that can process petabytes of data within seconds. The offering shows once again that the new class of analytics databases that can analyze ...

When the Big Data moniker is applied to a discussion, it’s often assumed that Hadoop is, or should be, involved. But perhaps that’s just doctrinaire. Hadoop, at its core, consists of HDFS (the Hadoop ...

Victor Lee is director of product management at TigerGraph. Graph databases excel at answering complex questions about relationships in large data sets. But they hit a wall—in terms of both ...