Blogs

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

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 …

The recent HANA SPS7 introduced Smart Data Access. http://help.sap.com/hana/Whats_New_SAP_HANA_Platform_Release_Notes_en.pdf There’s a good writeup of this …

SAP HANA Smart Data Access is a new feature that allows you to take data …

Simba Technologies, a leader in Big Data connectivity, enables powerful analytics on your Big Data …

  A new year—2014—always brings hope and optimism. The world of data at least on …

I was reading an interesting article in Forbes titled “Hortonworks Wants To Own Big Data …

With the turkey out of the way both north and south of the 49thand the …

I attended Dreamforce this year and was amazed at the size and scope of the …

Given the odd white stuff here in Vancouver here in the first week of December, …

If you are looking for a solution for Big Data in the Cloud, Qubole looks …

As Hadoop and Hive gain traction in the marketplace, many people are looking to connect …

There has been a lot of talk about Hive/Hadoop replacing the relational database.  I personally …

The Strata / Hadoop World conference last week in NY was great as it showcased …

Last week, I was part of the Simba team at Strata Conference / Hadoop World.  …

I spent last week at the Teradata Partners User Conference.  This was Teradata’s annual user …

Cloudera is definitely a leader in the world of Hadoop and Big Data. I was …

Last week I attended Splunk’s annual user conference in Las Vegas. One of the sessions …

This week at Oracle OpenWorld, Larry Ellison announced the Oracle 12c In-Memory Column Store Option.  …

Last week at the annual Tableau user conference, Tableau and Teradata both announced that Tableau …

Cloudera just released version 2.5 of their ODBC drivers for Hive and Impala. A key …