Qubole, the Hadoop-as-a-service startup from Ashish Thusoo and Joydeep Sen Sarma, has raised a $13 million series B round of venture capital…
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Qubole is offering Facebook’s Presto query engine as a service
Facebook's open source engine for interactive queries on Hadoop is now available as a cloud service thanks to startup Qubole. Facebook claims Presto is 10 times faster than Hive for most queries.…
Read MoreMaybe big data is the killer app for Google’s cloud
Hadoop is popular and so is cloud computing, so it comes as no surprise that a battle would break out to establish the best place for running Hadoop. Lately, Google has been scoring some victories on the user side.…
Read MoreIs Qubole proving a demand for Hadoop in the cloud?
Hadoop-in-the-cloud startup Qubole says its customers used more than 100,000 nodes to run more than 350,000 jobs and process more than a petabyte of data in July. Those aren't Facebook numbers, but they seem to signal an appetite among smaller users.…
Read MoreHadoop startup Qubole raises $7M for Hive as a Service
Hadoop experts Qubole have just closed a Series A funding round for their service, which lets users run Hive data warehouse jobs in Amazon's cloud.…
Read MoreIf the future of BI is Hadoop, SQL and the cloud are the glue
There's no doubt that Hadoop is the data tool of the present and future, but more can be done to make it really shine for business intelligence.…
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