What is an MPP database (massively parallel processing database)? An MPP, or massively parallel processing, database is a database that is optimized to be processed in parallel for many operations to ...

Microsoft is not the first company to mash up relational MPP technology with Hadoop, but it may be the most impactful player to do so. The announcement was made at the PASS Summit, which is the de ...

IBM has its own massively parallel processing (MPP) database. How does it fare against Teradata's? Wouldn't it be prudent to go with that option for DB2 (relational) users? Yes, DB2 is indeed ...

EMC today introduced the EMC® Greenplum® Modular Data Computing Appliance (DCA), the industry's first complete Big Data analytics platform. The EMC DCA allows enterprises for the first time to combine ...