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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 …

This week, Tableau just released version 8.0.4 of their namesake product. One key feature is …

I first learned about R last year at a local meetup on open science. http://www.meetup.com/Vancouver-R-Users-Group-data-analysis-statistics/events/73785912/ …

Amyn Rajan participated in a podcast with Enterprise Management 360° in discussing Big Data Analytics. …

I was wary that Carl Steinbach didn’t published the July Hive User Group meetup‘s agenda …

As we kick off the Hadoop Summit this week, some interesting news about new funding …

As I am planning to attend the Hadoop Summit next week in San Jose, I …

HBaseCon was conveniently the day after Cassandra Summit so I added it onto last weeks’ …

I was reading a great article in the Globe and Mail today about co-operative education programs …

My usual blogging tends to focus on the data access and analytics work that Simba …

Working in the database technology business, we run into a lot of software companies who …

Last week at the SAP Sapphire conference, I was able to get some more insight …

Simba has been a leader in OLAP and MDX data connectivity for the last decade …

Google IO has came and gone. It was a drink-from-the-fountain experience for this IO newbie. …

An interesting post by Alex Williams at techcrunch from this past March about “Oracle Is …

Yesterday, Teradata announced Teradata Intelligent Memory – part of the Teradata Unified Data Architecture. I …

Darryl Taft at eWeek wrote a very good article Hadoop Drives Down Costs, Drives Up …

Google IO 2013 is less than two weeks away now and there’s a lot of …