PolyBase, a data virtualization feature for SQL Server, allows users to seamlessly query data from various external sources directly using T-SQL (Transact-SQL) without the need for separate client ...

PolyBase will be released in the first half of 2013, as part of the next version of SQL Server PDW and will integrate data in Hadoop's Distributed File System (HDFS) with the relational database ...

With the recently released SQL Server 2016, you can now use SQL queries against Hadoop and Azure blob storage. Not only do you no longer need to write map/reduce operations, you can also join ...

Earlier releases of SQL Server with PolyBase, ranging from SQL Server 2016 to SQL Server 2019, will continue supporting the feature set until EOL. Other PolyBase features like scale-up groups and data ...

SQL Server 2016 introduces substantial new capabilities that promise to advance organizations to manage data for business intelligence and analytics.

Hekaton, Microsoft's coming in-memory database engine, will be built into the next version of SQL Server. Meanwhile, SQL Server 2012 SP1 is now generally available.