Driving Greater SQL Scalability and Flexibility with Machine Learning - DATAVERSITY

It's time to dispel some myths surrounding SQL. That's the message from MemSQL, a scalable real-time Data Warehouse that is designed to ingest and transform millions of events of data per day, while simultaneously analyzing billions of rows of data using standard SQL. As that description makes clear, there's no reason to believe that there's no such thing as scalable SQL, according to Gary Orenstein, Senior VP for Products at MemSQL. One of the oft-cited reasons for moving from SQL to NoSQL is concern that SQL solutions can't scale, Orenstein says. But today, there's a renewed awareness that it is possible to scale SQL, partially thanks to Google's Cloud Spanner globally distributed, relational database service that counts among its features horizontal scaling.