Michael Stonebraker has a history of database breakthroughs. He was a founder of Ingres, Illustra, Cohera and StreamBase Systems. He also served as CTO of Informix and helped develop Postgres. His ...

A non-standard inquiry. An ad hoc query is created to obtain information as the need arises. Contrast with a query that is predefined and routinely processed. See query and ad hoc. THIS DEFINITION IS ...

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 ...

Simba Technologies Inc., a provider of standards-based data access products, solutions and services for both relational and multi-dimensional data sources, has announced that Oracle's Technology ...

A federated SQL query execution engine created at Facebook, Presto brings interactive querying to all of your data — no matter where it resides Presto! It’s not only an incantation to excite your ...

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, ...

Kyligence Inc., the developer of an analytics platform based upon the Apache Kylin open-source distributed data warehouse, today announced a new version of its self-tuning analytics acceleration ...

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 ...

Analytic databases are the principal engines driving business intelligence, delivering operational data into reports, dashboards and ad-hoc queries. Analytic databases are the principal engines ...