And SQL Server 2019's enhanced PolyBase technology will allow the engine to connect to high-volume data and blend it with SQL Server-based transactional data and data marts.

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 ...

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 ...

SQL Server 2019 builds on intelligent query processing features that were implemented in SQL Server 2017, and expands them to new areas of the database engine.

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 ...