Teradata Aster has launched a new tool which allows business analysts to work with Hadoop data through SQL query structures. Its Aster SQL-H provides a bridge between widely used business ...

Now Teradata is making a "big data" play. The Aster SQL-MapReduce framework combines SQL with prepackaged MapReduce modules that are executed through an integrated Hadoop environment.

Teradata says its architecture allows developers and data scientists to query unstructured data in the Hadoop Distributed File System with SQL, a more commonly used language.

At the 2016 Hadoop Summit this week in San Jose, Teradata is announcing the certification of multiple BI and visualization solutions on the Teradata Distribution of Presto, including Information ...