EMC Greenplum Brings SQL to Hadoop

Back in January, I wrote a blog post on how we, as an industry will need to combat the Big Data skills shortage. One of the ways I suggested was to bring traditional capabilities, methods and approaches to Big Data (namely Hadoop). On February 25, 2013, Greenplum (a...

Lowering the Barriers to Entry for Big Data

On February 25, 2013 with great fanfare, Greenplum (a division of EMC) announced the availability of PivotalHD the first milestone for EMC’s Pivotal Initiative. PivotalHD brings together the broad and ubiquitous understanding of SQL with the next generation data management of Hadoop.

This Communiqué analyzes the impact of how PivotalHD can lower the barriers to entry for Big Data by integrating SQL with Hadoop