The solution is a massively parallel database with an integrated analytics engine that leverages the MapReduce framework for large-scale data processing and couples SQL with MapReduce. The ...

Database vendor Sybase is upgrading its column-oriented database, Sybase IQ, to run on a massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture. The company announced the beta of the new Sybase IQ ...

Technical Terms MapReduce: A programming model that simplifies distributed data processing by dividing tasks into map and reduce functions operating in a parallel, fault-tolerant manner.

Michael V. DiStefano, CEO at consultancy Integrasoft, discusses how grid computing needs a parallel, easily accessible distributed data layer. Grid computing evolved in the scientific and defense ...

Database vendor Sybase is upgrading its column-oriented database, Sybase IQ, to run on a massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture. The company announced the beta of the new Sybase IQ ...