With GemFire XD, Pivotal Closes the Big Data Analytics Loop
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The team at Pivotal made a handful of announcements today focused on the Big Data and analytics layer of its enterprise platform play. Namely, the company announced Pivotal HD 2, the latest version of its Hadoop distribution that incorporates HAWQ, a modified version of the Greenplum database, for SQL analytics. Version 2 is based on […]