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  • Survey of the Smartwatch market

    Survey of the Smartwatch market

    March 29, 2015 by George Chow

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

  • Life at Simba: Breaking Out with the Simba Escapologists

    Life at Simba: Breaking Out with the Simba Escapologists

    March 13, 2015 by Simba Marketing

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

  • Strata Hadoop World 2015 summary

    Strata Hadoop World 2015 summary

    February 27, 2015 by George Chow

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

  • Hadoop, Stormtroopers, and Flash Mobs, Oh My! A Strata + Hadoop World 2015 Recap from the Exhibit Floor

    Hadoop, Stormtroopers, and Flash Mobs, Oh My! A Strata + Hadoop World 2015 Recap from the Exhibit Floor

    February 22, 2015 by Toph Whitmore

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

  • “It’s not About Big Data, it’s About More Data Sources”

    “It’s not About Big Data, it’s About More Data Sources”

    February 18, 2015 by Amyn Rajan

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

  • Apache Spark continues to make inroads

    Apache Spark continues to make inroads

    February 16, 2015 by Amyn Rajan

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

  • Free Download – Simba Spark Extension for Lumira

    Free Download – Simba Spark Extension for Lumira

    February 11, 2015 by Kyle Porter

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

  • No Such Thing as a Free Lunch? Not If You Work at Simba

    No Such Thing as a Free Lunch? Not If You Work at Simba

    January 28, 2015 by Sylvia Lee

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

  • Data Wrangling – a very important part of data management

    Data Wrangling – a very important part of data management

    January 15, 2015 by Amyn Rajan

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

  • Have a Happy New and denormalized Year…

    Have a Happy New and denormalized Year…

    December 31, 2014 by George Chow

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

  • Free Download – Simba MongoDB Extension for Lumira

    Free Download – Simba MongoDB Extension for Lumira

    December 12, 2014 by Kyle Porter

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

  • The Simba Technologies Spark ODBC Driver is Ready To Go!

    The Simba Technologies Spark ODBC Driver is Ready To Go!

    December 3, 2014 by Wilson Ma

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

  • Simba Gets Crafty

    Simba Gets Crafty

    November 18, 2014 by Sylvia Lee

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

  • Life at Simba: AYCE Sushi Lunches

    Life at Simba: AYCE Sushi Lunches

    November 6, 2014 by Sylvia Lee

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

  • DSN Hierarchy Models for ODBC Administrators on Mac OS X

    DSN Hierarchy Models for ODBC Administrators on Mac OS X

    November 4, 2014 by Norris Lee

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

  • Simba Revolutionizes Connectivity Driver Development with SimbaEngine SDK 9.4

    Simba Revolutionizes Connectivity Driver Development with SimbaEngine SDK 9.4

    November 4, 2014 by Jerry Wu

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

  • Strata NYC 2014 retrospective

    Strata NYC 2014 retrospective

    November 2, 2014 by George Chow

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

  • Introducing the New Simba MongoDB ODBC Driver: SQL for MongoDB Data is Here!

    Introducing the New Simba MongoDB ODBC Driver: SQL for MongoDB Data is Here!

    October 28, 2014 by Wilson Ma

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

  • Simba in the Big Apple: A Strata + Hadoop World NYC Recap

    Simba in the Big Apple: A Strata + Hadoop World NYC Recap

    October 27, 2014 by Toph Whitmore

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

  • My GranFondo Experience

    My GranFondo Experience

    October 2, 2014 by Adrian Glover

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

  • Digital Economy Congress 2014

    Digital Economy Congress 2014

    October 2, 2014 by George Chow

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

  • Recapping Cassandra Summit 2014 (featuring CQL3)

    Recapping Cassandra Summit 2014 (featuring CQL3)

    September 19, 2014 by George Chow

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

  • Now Available: Simba Technologies ODBC Driver with SQL Connector for Google BigQuery v. 1.1.7

    Now Available: Simba Technologies ODBC Driver with SQL Connector for Google BigQuery v. 1.1.7

    September 10, 2014 by Kyle Porter

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

  • Connecting Apache Hive™ to ODBC/JDBC Applications: A How-to

    Connecting Apache Hive™ to ODBC/JDBC Applications: A How-to

    September 9, 2014 by Kyle Porter

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

  • Connect Tableau to MongoDB, Salesforce, Cassandra, and…Well, Just About Anything

    Connect Tableau to MongoDB, Salesforce, Cassandra, and…Well, Just About Anything

    August 27, 2014 by Toph Whitmore

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

  • Simba continues to lead with ODBC for Spark SQL and everything else

    Simba continues to lead with ODBC for Spark SQL and everything else

    August 25, 2014 by Amyn Rajan

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

  • “A Shark by any other name would run as fast (or faster)”

    “A Shark by any other name would run as fast (or faster)”

    August 21, 2014 by George Chow

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

  • OLAP for Big Data…

    OLAP for Big Data…

    July 18, 2014 by George Chow

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

  • Google Chucks MapReduce, Databricks is in the Cloud, and Shark Meets its Maker: A Spark Summit 2014 Synopsis

    Google Chucks MapReduce, Databricks is in the Cloud, and Shark Meets its Maker: A Spark Summit 2014 Synopsis

    July 2, 2014 by George Chow

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

  • Databricks – an interesting plan for Spark, Shark, and Spark SQL

    Databricks – an interesting plan for Spark, Shark, and Spark SQL

    July 2, 2014 by Amyn Rajan

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

  • Setting up Apache Drill to Query Hive and HBase: a How-to

    Setting up Apache Drill to Query Hive and HBase: a How-to

    June 19, 2014 by Norris Lee

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

  • Teradata, Alteryx, and Big Data

    Teradata, Alteryx, and Big Data

    June 18, 2014 by Amyn Rajan

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

  • Hadoop Summit 2014 Summary

    Hadoop Summit 2014 Summary

    June 12, 2014 by George Chow

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

  • Six Things I Learned at Hadoop Summit

    Six Things I Learned at Hadoop Summit

    June 12, 2014 by Toph Whitmore

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

  • Interoperability Matters: With Simba Connectivity Integration, SAP BI 4.1 Signals Commitment to the Progressive Enterprise

    Interoperability Matters: With Simba Connectivity Integration, SAP BI 4.1 Signals Commitment to the Progressive Enterprise

    June 12, 2014 by Toph Whitmore

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

  • Mapping Unstructured Data: A How-to

    Mapping Unstructured Data: A How-to

    June 11, 2014 by Kyle Porter

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

  • Understanding YARN (or Day 1 of pre-Hadoop Summit 2014 workshop)

    Understanding YARN (or Day 1 of pre-Hadoop Summit 2014 workshop)

    June 1, 2014 by George Chow

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

  • SimbaEngine SDK 9.3 with ODBC 3.8 is Ready

    SimbaEngine SDK 9.3 with ODBC 3.8 is Ready

    May 27, 2014 by Jerry Wu

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

  • The State of Big Data – Actually, The State of All Data

    The State of Big Data – Actually, The State of All Data

    May 17, 2014 by Amyn Rajan

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

  • Vishal Sikka leaves SAP

    Vishal Sikka leaves SAP

    May 5, 2014 by Amyn Rajan

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

  • Heartbleeding or not?

    Heartbleeding or not?

    April 13, 2014 by Jerry Wu

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

  • Teradata 15.0 – a major new release integrating Hadoop

    Teradata 15.0 – a major new release integrating Hadoop

    April 13, 2014 by Amyn Rajan

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

  • Handy Tableau tips and tricks…

    Handy Tableau tips and tricks…

    April 11, 2014 by George Chow

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

  • Databricks and Apache Spark

    Databricks and Apache Spark

    March 23, 2014 by Amyn Rajan

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

  • Understanding HiveServer2 0.13 Performance

    Understanding HiveServer2 0.13 Performance

    March 20, 2014 by George Chow

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

  • I love the database world

    I love the database world

    March 17, 2014 by Amyn Rajan

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

  • Dependent Libraries on OSX

    Dependent Libraries on OSX

    March 13, 2014 by James Duong

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

  • Evolving Hive

    Evolving Hive

    March 6, 2014 by George Chow

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

  • Connecting Tableau to Splunk using Simba ODBC

    Connecting Tableau to Splunk using Simba ODBC

    March 6, 2014 by Amyn Rajan

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

  • Strata Santa Clara 2014: SQL

    Strata Santa Clara 2014: SQL

    February 18, 2014 by George Chow

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

  • SAP HANA and the MDX Query Language

    SAP HANA and the MDX Query Language

    February 17, 2014 by Amyn Rajan

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

  • Big Data JDBC Drivers

    Big Data JDBC Drivers

    February 16, 2014 by Amyn Rajan

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

  • So what about JSON?

    So what about JSON?

    February 6, 2014 by George Chow

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

  • Mac ODBC Drivers

    Mac ODBC Drivers

    February 4, 2014 by Amyn Rajan

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

  • MongoDB ODBC Driver – SQL Access for MongoDB

    MongoDB ODBC Driver – SQL Access for MongoDB

    January 31, 2014 by Amyn Rajan

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

  • Splunk ODBC Driver

    Splunk ODBC Driver

    January 29, 2014 by Amyn Rajan

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

  • The Year that was in Hadoop and Hive

    The Year that was in Hadoop and Hive

    January 29, 2014 by George Chow

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

  • MDX Query Language – SAP certifies arcplan Enterprise to connect to HANA

    MDX Query Language – SAP certifies arcplan Enterprise to connect to HANA

    January 27, 2014 by Amyn Rajan

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

  • SQL access to non-relational sources is proliferating

    SQL access to non-relational sources is proliferating

    January 24, 2014 by Amyn Rajan

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

  • The evolution of NoSQL

    The evolution of NoSQL

    January 18, 2014 by Amyn Rajan

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

  • Using SQL to MongoDB to uncover Social Media trends

    Using SQL to MongoDB to uncover Social Media trends

    January 15, 2014 by Amyn Rajan

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

  • Debugging crashes on Windows

    Debugging crashes on Windows

    January 13, 2014 by Simba Marketing

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

  • The On Ramp To Big Data – ODBC and JDBC

    The On Ramp To Big Data – ODBC and JDBC

    January 12, 2014 by Amyn Rajan

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

  • Visual Studio Tip: Enabling TODO tasks

    Visual Studio Tip: Enabling TODO tasks

    January 10, 2014 by Simba Marketing

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

  • An update on SAP HANA SPS7

    An update on SAP HANA SPS7

    January 8, 2014 by Amyn Rajan

    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 and ODBC

    SAP HANA Smart Data Access and ODBC

    January 8, 2014 by Amyn Rajan

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

  • Enable Analytics on Big Data in Tableau and Excel

    Enable Analytics on Big Data in Tableau and Excel

    January 6, 2014 by Simba Marketing

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

  • Spark in 2014

    Spark in 2014

    January 2, 2014 by George Chow

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

  • Hortonworks and Big Data

    Hortonworks and Big Data

    December 24, 2013 by Amyn Rajan

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

  • Explaining IoT to the Masses – iBeacon

    Explaining IoT to the Masses – iBeacon

    December 17, 2013 by George Chow

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

  • Salesforce ODBC Driver – connect easily from Excel, Tableau, Lumira, etc to Salesforce.com

    Salesforce ODBC Driver – connect easily from Excel, Tableau, Lumira, etc to Salesforce.com

    December 16, 2013 by Amyn Rajan

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

  • Strata NYC 2013 and the Hive Year in Review

    Strata NYC 2013 and the Hive Year in Review

    December 11, 2013 by George Chow

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

  • Big Data in the Cloud – Qubole looks interesting

    Big Data in the Cloud – Qubole looks interesting

    November 17, 2013 by Amyn Rajan

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

  • Connect Microsoft SSIS to Hadoop Hive

    Connect Microsoft SSIS to Hadoop Hive

    November 12, 2013 by Amyn Rajan

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

  • Hadoop and Relational go hand in hand

    Hadoop and Relational go hand in hand

    November 5, 2013 by Amyn Rajan

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

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