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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 …

The Apache Drill beta release is near! This guide will show you how to set …

I was reading a very good overview of Teradata written by Mark Smith entitled “Teradata …

Here’s a re-cap of last week’s Hadoop Summit 2014. It’s difficult for me to convey my …

Several colleagues and I attended Hadoop Summit in San Jose last week. Here are six …

Here’s some exciting news for you enterprise data connectivity junkies out there: SAP’s BI 4.1 …

When building an ODBC driver, you need to map the data from the data-source into …

It’s been a great day 1 of the pre-Hadoop Summit workshop. I attended Rich Raposa‘ …

I am very proud to tell everyone that our SimbaEngine SDK 9.3 is ready now. …

I was reading a great post by Matt Turck at Venture Beat entitled “The state …

Latest news is that Vishal Sikka is leaving SAP.  Vishal has been key to driving …

OpenSSL is said to be powering two thirds of the secure communication on the Internet. …

Last week Teradata announced version 15.0 that has much better integration with Hadoop.  Teradata really gets …

I was working in the last few weeks getting a new driver to work with …

I was reading a good article entitled “Databricks Moves to Standardize Apache Spark” by Alex …

Introduction As Hive 0.13 is just about to go out the door, I want to …

I love the database world. Just when people thought database technology was not interesting, there has …

OS X is a popular platform for data scientists to use for analyzing data. You …

One aspect of the current climate for polyglot development is the wide selection and rapid …

Serdar Yegulalp at InfoWorld wrote a very nice article entitled “Splunk’s big data promise: Google …

Strata Santa Clara 2014 was last week. If you didn’t make it out, there are a …

As SAP HANA gains more and more traction in the marketplace, a lot of people …

One of the announcements by Simba this week at the Strata conference was the availability …

So what about JSON? JSON has been on the headline for the last few years. …

Yesterday, Simba officially announced our suite of Mac ODBC drivers for Big Data.  Every time …

The MongoDB ODBC driver has been gaining a lot of traction as MongoDB gains traction.  …

I just received the Splunk product announcement: “Introducing Splunk ODBC Driver: Industry Standard Connectivity to …

I saw a couple of good retrospectives in the last couple of weeks to frame …

The MDX query language is a key way to access data in SAP HANA.  SAP …

Alex Kodat wrote a good post on TDWI entitled “Can Big Data and SQL Get …

There is a good blog post by Robert Fox on sandhill.com entitled “Evolution of Hybrid …

SQL to MongoDB is a powerful advantage as the world of Big Data and NoSQL …

Have you ever wondered how to debug a Windows program that’s crashed? Here’s a trick …

When reading all the predictions for 2014, it is interesting to see how ODBC and …

Visual Studio, the IDE of choice for Windows C++ development here at Simba, has a …