For some time Microsoft didn't offer a solution for processing big data in cloud environments. SQL Server is good for storage, but its ability to analyze terabytes of data is limited. Hadoop ...

A new JavaScript API aims to facilitate limited local filesystem access in Web applications. A draft that documents the new API, authored by Mozilla's Arun Ranganathan, has been submitted to the ...

Today, Google is launching another initiative that is meant to drive more awareness for the JavaScript processing speed of its browser and the V8 engine it runs on, in the hopes that it will lure ...

Based on the conference and online discussions, we worked to document the project, its organizational and governance structures, and the various ways to contribute. Through these documents, we ...

Looking to speed up JavaScript applications, Intel is leading efforts to enable SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) capabilities in the official specification underlying JavaScript, although ...

Brief summary As you can see, it took us seven minutes to process the first query created with Hive, while processing the same query based on JavaScript took 50 minutes and 29 seconds.