By optimizing all hardware components for SQL Server, the reference architecture configurations will reduce the time, effort and cost of deploying data warehouse systems, according to Microsoft.

In case you are wondering who “she” is and what school she went to, Doris is an open source, SQL-based massively parallel processing (MPP) analytical data warehouse that was under development ...

SQL Server and Parallel Data Warehouse, Microsoft said. Hadoop, which is hosted at the Apache Software Foundation, was formed by Yahoo and is based partly on the MapReduce programming model ...