They are built primarily with Microsoft tools and run on Microsoft SQL databases.

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Maritz also said the company has a strategy of creating easy ways for non-SQL databases to plug into cloud environments.

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You could replace your Microsoft SQL databases with other competing products.

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More frequently than ever before, we want to take immediate action and transact on Big Data, and no SQL databases are quickly becoming the hammer to crack this nut.

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Skytree is a machine learning program intended to serve as a replacement for SQL databases, and has the ability to take even unstructured sets of data and crunch it faster than traditional methods.

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Even Microsoft is getting into the game with its Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) that enables SQL Server customers evolve their SQL databases to Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) architecture to take advantage of commodity hardware.

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Particularly SQL. Most of these business applications run on these databases.

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