The optimizer is the heart and soul of a relational DBMS. It analyzes SQL statements and determines the most efficient access plan for satisfying each statement. The optimizer accomplishes this by ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An update to the cardinality estimator feature in SQL Server 2022 will be one of the biggest changes to the database engine since its inception. Database engines like SQL Server are incredibly complex ...

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 ...

Unravel Data, an AI-enabled data observability and FinOps platform, is releasing Unravel 4.8.1, enabling Google Cloud BigQuery customers to see and better manage their cloud data costs. This launch ...

In part 1 of my SQL Server 2022 features series, you learned about the improvements to the cardinality estimator component of query optimization. In this installment, you will learn about another ...