Teradata spins off Starburst

Teradata has announced that it is spinning off the support and development of the Presto SQL on Hadoop engine, into a new company called Starburst Data.

BSP and Graphs

Bulk Synchronous Parallel is a clustered low-cost solution (a la Hadoop) being adopted for graph databases and graph analytics

SQL and NoSQL

Adding SQL to a NoSQL database will only be of limited value unless you also have a database optimiser