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Today, Couchbase announced the release of Couchbase Server 4.0 Release Candidate. In conjunction with this …

Remote data access on mobile devices presents developers and users with a number of unique challenges not found in server or desktop environments. Unreliable network connections, battery life optimization, and security implications are the major factors that need to be considered by developers and end users. This post gives a brief overview of these issues and offers some best practices.

Today, Simba announced that its connectivity platform has been licensed by SAP for use with …

I was reading an article by Dan Woods at Forbes.com titled “Can Hortonworks Dominate The …

35 days. As part of benchmarking our ResultSet compression protocol, we wanted to set up …

Simba ODBC, JDBC Connectivity Makes it Easy to Connect Any Data Source to Leading NoSQL …

Mitesh Shah is a senior Business Intelligence consultant for Decision First Technologies, a BI consulting …

Storage plugin extensibility is a key feature of Apache Drill. Drill supports Hive, HBase, and …

In order to build engaging visual analytics that help people understand their data, Tableau BI …

This year’s just-wrapped Hadoop Summit 2015–particularly the exhibit hall–was somewhat subdued compared to last year. …

Couchbase Connect wrapped up last week, and I had the pleasure of attending and giving …

Simba is in the business of helping people write custom ODBC drivers.  If you work …

Exciting news! Couchbase Server 4.0 Beta was announced this morning at Couchbase Connect 2015 currently taking place June 2 …

May is conference month and the memorable event–for all the ideas and progress over the past year–for …

Different ways of mapping MongoDB’s nested documents to relational schema, allowing analysis via BI tools and SQL

Concur handles expense reports. A LOT of expense reports. Think billions. As the world’s leading …

Question How long will it take to sort 100TB of data? 100TB. Think about it …

Couchbase and Simba will be at Informatica World 2015 on May 11 to 15. Curious …

Update: The Beta versions of the ODBC and JDBC connectivity solutions are now available: http://www.simba.com/couchbase/couchbase-odbc-jdbc-connectivity-solutions-beta-now-available  For the …

The past weekend was Europe’s transition to daylight savings time. The past three weeks is what I …

Being part of Simba gives you chances to explore not only the realm of any …

This year’s opening event on the Big Data circuit–Strata Hadoop World–was prefaced the day before by Pivotal’s …

Another Strata + Hadoop World event has come and gone, and well, what can I …

I stole the title of this post from a blog post on the Sisense website.  …

I was reading a good article on Datanami entitled “Apache Spark Continues to Spread Beyond …

We’re happy to provide a new Simba Spark Extension for Lumira to download. This extension provides …

Did You Say Free Lunch? It’s 10PM on a Sunday night and I haven’t packed …

I was recently reading an article entitled “An Introduction to Data Wrangling” by Stephen Swoyer …

Today, we announced the launch of version two of our Cassandra ODBC connector. The release introduces …

Gosh, it’s been almost a year since I last touched on the subject of JSON. But a couple …

As promised in our most recent webinar “Connect SAP Lumira to MongoDB Data with the …

Today, Simba Technologies Inc. announced the launch of its innovative Spark ODBC Driver version 1.0.2. …

As software engineers, we aren’t often presented a chance to express our artistic talents…at least …

  If you ask most Vancouverites what the quintessential cuisine is for Vancouver, you’ll likely …

Mac OS X has never had a large need for ODBC administrators on Mac: There …

I’m pleased to announce the launch of SimbaEngine SDK 9.4, which brings development of extreme …

It took Strata three years to outgrow a hotel. I had to consult my Google …

Simba Technologies Inc. is pleased to announce the availability of version 1.7 of its innovative …

Last week, Simba Technologies joined with several thousand close friends at the Javits Convention Center …

Shortly after I started work at Simba, several people were recognized for signing up to …

I have the privilege of speaking on the Big Data Analytics panel of next week’s …

It must have been a busier than usual week in San Francisco last week. (Or at …

Version 1.1.7 of the Simba ODBC Driver with SQL Connector for Google BigQuery has been …

(This Simba Technologies-authored post is published at MapR. Read it in its entirety here.) The …

The good folks at Tableau Software (@Tableau) recently released v8.2 of their flagship analytics software, extending …

In the “Big Data” space, Simba has always been the leader in data connectivity being …

What’s in a name? Pardon my paraphrase of a certain bard: What’s in a name? …

Is it me or has OLAP finally (re)emerged from the shadow of the transactional systems? I was …

It is a post-MapReduce world. Last week’s announcement out of Google IO was that Google …

This week was the Spark Summit in San Francisco.  It was a great event with …