New structured data service allows faster access for applications

As enterprises make more use of widely-available analytics engines such as Presto, Apache Spark SQL or Apache Hive, they often run into inefficient data formats and face performance challenges as a result. Open source cloud data software company Alluxio is launching a new Structured Data Service (SDS) that will allow developers and data scientists to benefit from a more simplified data platform that enables connections to different catalogs for access to structured data, with less copies and pipelines and more compute-optimized data. "Alluxio now provides just-in-time data transform of data to be compute-optimized, independent of the storage format for OLAP… [Continue Reading]