If you have known columns represented in fixed width or delimited file there is so little processing to do that it is always going to be fast on any platform.

In the old days of receiving data on 1/2" tape the list brokers used to supply the tapes with 1/2 page of A4 telling you the record format, encoding, number...

In one position I was given a MacBook PRO.  Prior to that I had no experience with Macs other than wincing at the price tag and moving on.  To be...

I've found that when working in a team the database and application work immeasurably better, the development goes much faster and deployments go smoother.
When dealing with remote development teams...

For destructive deployments we had an explicit DBA schema so the relevant data could backed up and be rolled back.  The deployment/rollback usually involved some form of sp_rename for the...

Certainly HIVE gives a sort of SQL called HQL which is based on the MySQL dialect.
Cassandra has CQL, Aerospike has AQL and Couchbase has NiQL.
Apache Spark goes for...

The thing with NOSQL is that it is not a single thing, it's a massive range of things.  Each one is intended to solve a particular problem.  The trick is...

When I was experimenting with Neo4J I found that consistent performance was a strength.  A 4 hop query seems to take the same amount of time regardless of data volumes

There are similarities between Gremlin and Cypher.  I'm not confident to say one way or the other but have noticed the pictorial style of the MATCH statement looks just like...

I saw recently a paper comparing the performance of Postgres, MySql, Oracle and SQL Server.  As loads got more complex so the difference in performance between the proprietary and the...

I spent some time working through the Vagrant tutorials.  There are a number of pre-canned virtual boxes with all sorts of software as part of the box.  This allows you...

Excellent editorial Steve.  I've spent 3 years playing with all sorts of data technologies and have learned some hard lessons.

1. There are some fundamental disciplines that must not...