There's a particular issue with SQL Server in that while it can split a task into threads and execute them in parallel, only one task can read or write data at a time, and that tends to be the ...

Recognizing that Hadoop and SQL database technology need to be joined at the hip in the enterprise, EMC Greenplum today announced Pivotal HD, an implementation of the company’s massively parallel ...

In this talk, I present an architectural overview of the SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse DBMS system. PDW is a massively parallel-processing, share-nothing, scaled-out version of SQL Server for DW ...

Aerospike, Inc., a real-time data platform provider, is introducing Aerospike SQL Powered by Starburst, enabling customers to run massively parallel, complex SQL queries on petabyte-scale data stored ...

Learn about the cost threshold for parallelism option. See how its value affects whether SQL Server runs parallel plans for queries, and find out how to set it.