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• June 07, 2023 07 Jun'23

  Ascend.io, Databricks integration improves data visibility

  The update includes support for Databricks' Unity Catalog to enable joint customers to better organize and view datasets that can be used to inform data science and BI projects.

• June 06, 2023 06 Jun'23

  Snowflake launches Government & Education Data Cloud

  The industry-specific platform is the vendor's seventh and includes data sets and other pre-built capabilities to meet the needs of government agencies and educational institutions.

• June 06, 2023 06 Jun'23

  Collibra update targets data quality, lineage and discovery

  The data management vendor's Data Intelligence Cloud now includes pushdowns that enable work within Snowflake and Databricks and prebuilt workflows focused on data visibility.

• June 06, 2023 06 Jun'23

  Tibco data virtualization, integration tools add visibility

  No longer focused on analytics following a recent reorganization, the vendor updated its data management platforms with new multi-cloud and change data capture capabilities.

• June 02, 2023 02 Jun'23

  Data mesh helping fuel Sloan Kettering's cancer research

  The cancer hospital and research center began using tools from data management vendor Dremio two years ago to decentralize its data operations and improve speed-to-insight.

• May 25, 2023 25 May'23

  Fivetran's new funding a hedge against economic uncertainty

  The data integration vendor added $125 million in financing to not only fuel R&D but also ensure that operations remain smooth if there is a recession.

• May 25, 2023 25 May'23

  Snowflake acquisition of Neeva to add generative AI

  The pending purchase will let the data cloud vendor infuse generative AI throughout its data management suite and potentially open the technology's use to a broader audience.

• May 18, 2023 18 May'23

  Confluent platform update targets streaming data quality

  The vendor unveiled a tool designed to address concerns about the quality of continuous data as well as a feature that enables secure continuous data sharing.

• May 17, 2023 17 May'23

  Peloton rides, runs, rows with AWS for data management

  The connected fitness company has long used AWS tools. When its data volume surged during COVID-19, Redshift was critical -- and still is as the company attempts a fiscal comeback.

• May 16, 2023 16 May'23

  Qlik completes purchase of Talend, boosts integration suite

  With the acquisition, the longtime analytics vendor adds a data fabric approach and improved data quality and governance prowess to its burgeoning data integration platform.

• May 10, 2023 10 May'23

  Informatica unveils plan to infuse Claire with generative AI

  The longtime independent vendor plans to infuse its existing AI engine with generative AI to simplify data management by enabling customers to use natural language.

• April 28, 2023 28 Apr'23

  New Starburst, DBT integration eases data transformation

  The integration enables data mesh adopters to work with data from multiple sources without having to move it in and out of a central repository for transformation and analysis.

• April 27, 2023 27 Apr'23

  InfluxData update ups speed, power of time series database

  The new version of InfluxDB features an architecture built with Apache Arrow and written in Rust to improve the speed and flexibility of the time series database.

• April 18, 2023 18 Apr'23

  Rockset adds vector embedding support to real-time database

  The real-time database vendor now enables users to search and combine unstructured data with structured and semi-structured data to provide more in-depth modeling and analysis.

• April 04, 2023 04 Apr'23

  Alation unveils enhanced partnerships with Databricks, DBT

  The data catalog vendor launched new connectors with its partners designed to help joint customers better understand data in their lakehouses and more easily transform the data.

• March 06, 2023 06 Mar'23

  New high-volume agent connectors highlight Fivetran update

  The data ingestion specialist's latest platform update focuses on enabling users to ingest high volumes of data to fuel real-time analysis and adds a new private deployment option.

• February 10, 2023 10 Feb'23

  InfluxData raises $81M to advance time series capabilities

  The vendor is the creator and lead sponsor of the open source InfluxDB database and plans to use the new funding to further product development as it aims for profitability.

• December 20, 2022 20 Dec'22

  Data forecast for 2023: Time to extract more value

  Expect more organizations to optimize data usage to drive decision intelligence and operations in 2023, as the new year will be one of economic challenges for many.

• December 15, 2022 15 Dec'22

  Apache Cassandra 4.1 extends open source NoSQL database

  The open source Cassandra database is out with its first major update in 18 months, bringing with it an improved consensus protocol to boost transaction performance.

• December 13, 2022 13 Dec'22

  Aiven launches managed ClickHouse database as a service

  The open source database cloud services vendor continues to expand the number of technologies it supports, adding new analytics capabilities in a managed offering.

• December 13, 2022 13 Dec'22

  SingleStoreDB 8.0 brings WebAssembly to unified database

  The database vendor updates its hybrid transactional and analytical database with new JSON data query acceleration technology and developer support for WebAssembly.

• December 08, 2022 08 Dec'22

  CockroachDB brings user-defined functions to distributed SQL

  User-defined functions land in Cockroach Labs' new database update aiming to improve application development. The release also adds Intelligent Insights for performance monitoring.

• December 08, 2022 08 Dec'22

  Disney improves data integration efficiency with AWS Glue

  During the pandemic, Disney revamped its data integration process after the media and entertainment giant's existing data integration tools proved unable to meet its new needs.

• December 02, 2022 02 Dec'22

  EDB brings new tools to open source PostgreSQL database

  The database vendor released new extensions designed to help PostgreSQL users with best practices for storage, user access and performance optimizations for database operations.

• November 30, 2022 30 Nov'22

  AWS adds data quality, scalability services for cloud data

  The cloud giant expanded its data portfolio with a series of features designed to help organizations more easily scale database and data warehouse deployments.

• November 29, 2022 29 Nov'22

  AWS expands cloud data options with Amazon DataZone

  The cloud computing giant at its AWS re:Invent 2022 conference introduced a series of new capabilities to help organizations better integrate and manage data across services.

• November 28, 2022 28 Nov'22

  Alation Connected Sheets extends data intelligence platform

  The data intelligence vendor's Connected Sheets lets spreadsheet users directly pull in data sets from a data catalog to improve data governance and visibility.

• November 23, 2022 23 Nov'22

  How Fauna looks to advance serverless database technology

  The CEO of the serverless database vendor is overseeing his firm's drive to build out a developer-focused database as an API to let organizations deploy applications faster.

• November 17, 2022 17 Nov'22

  Alluxio 2.9 scales out open source data orchestration

  Multi-environment cluster synchronization lands in Alluxio platform to give organizations a single view of data across multiple deployments, wherever they are located.

• November 16, 2022 16 Nov'22

  Microsoft SQL Server 2022 bridges on-premises to cloud

  Enabling hybrid deployments that span the cloud and on-premises is the key goal for Microsoft's latest update of its 33-year-old relational database.

• November 16, 2022 16 Nov'22

  PlanetScale boosts cloud database with data caching

  The database vendor will enable users to speed up queries that are running slowly with its new Boost service, which uses insights about query performance.

• November 15, 2022 15 Nov'22

  Redpanda updates event data streaming cloud platform

  The event data streaming vendor rebuilt its cloud system using technology acquired in April, providing a new user console and interface to let organizations use real-time data.

• November 15, 2022 15 Nov'22

  MotherDuck raises $47.5M for open source DuckDB database

  The database startup received new funding to build out a hybrid cloud platform that will let organizations run DuckDB both in the cloud and on premises.

• November 10, 2022 10 Nov'22

  Speedb data engine brings key value store to open source

  The startup looks to provide a competitive alternative to RocksDB by building out its data technology and community of developers with a move to an open source methodology.

• November 09, 2022 09 Nov'22

  Neo4j 5 accelerates graph database queries

  The cypher query language got a big boost in the Neo4j 5 database update, letting users execute more complex queries faster than with earlier releases.

• November 07, 2022 07 Nov'22

  Snowflake data cloud adds Python, multi-cloud collaboration

  The cloud data vendor released preview updates to its platform to accelerate data queries, better support multi-cloud operations and boost developer productivity.

• November 07, 2022 07 Nov'22

  EdgeDB raises $15M for open source graph-relational database

  The startup vendor of open source database technology raised new money to help build out a platform that aims to relieve the object-relational impedance mismatch.

• November 03, 2022 03 Nov'22

  Momento accelerates databases with serverless data caching

  The startup has built a new platform that lets organizations more easily scale and accelerate database queries in the cloud without adding more infrastructure.

• November 03, 2022 03 Nov'22

  Aerospike Cloud advances real-time database service

  The database vendor has steadily advanced its core database technology in 2022 with JSON and Trino support and is now building out a new database-as-a-service platform.

• November 02, 2022 02 Nov'22

  Alation set to advance data intelligence with new $123M

  The data intelligence vendor, which aims to help enterprises organize data with data catalog technology, sees fundraising success and market demand for its platform.

• November 01, 2022 01 Nov'22

  Equalum CDC Connect embeds change data capture and streaming

  The CDC technology vendor expanded the reach of its real-time data integration platform that provides event data streaming to keep data moving to where it's needed.

• October 27, 2022 27 Oct'22

  Cinchy raises $14.5M to expand dataware data management

  The startup's technology aims to help enterprises liberate data from applications where it can be locked so that users can more easily get at data from multiple locations.

• October 26, 2022 26 Oct'22

  InfluxDB Cloud overhauls time series database engine

  InfluxData updated its InfluxDB Cloud database service with a new engine, new storage and real-time data capabilities, and expanded support for SQL queries.

• October 26, 2022 26 Oct'22

  Serverless PostgreSQL platform Bit.io goes GA, raises $7.5M

  PostgreSQL database-as-a-service vendor launches a cloud service that integrates features designed to accelerate data migration from different sources.

• October 19, 2022 19 Oct'22

  RisingWave Labs raises $36M for stream processing database

  Open source-based streaming database vendor looks to expand into the cloud with a database-as-a-service platform written in the Rust programming language.

• October 18, 2022 18 Oct'22

  Oracle Database 23c brings JSON, graph to relational database

  The tech giant previewed the next major milestone for its namesake database at the CloudWorld conference, providing users with features to better work with different data models.

• October 18, 2022 18 Oct'22

  Oracle extends MySQL HeatWave database to the data lakehouse

  The Oracle MySQL HeatWave service provides both transactional and analytics processing capabilities and now also lets users tap into data lake storage for queries.

• October 13, 2022 13 Oct'22

  PostgreSQL 15 advances open source relational database

  The new release of the widely deployed and supported PostgreSQL platform integrates enhanced logging, data compression, SQL and data replication capabilities.

• October 11, 2022 11 Oct'22

  Google grows data cloud capabilities for data management

  The tech giant brings open source Apache Iceberg table format support to its BigLake data lake as it extends BigQuery support for unstructured data and Apache Spark.

• October 06, 2022 06 Oct'22

  ArangoDB expands scope of graph database platform

  The database vendor extended its namesake database platform to support machine learning applications with its revamped ArangoGraph Insights Platform cloud database service.

• October 04, 2022 04 Oct'22

  Confluent brings designer and governance to streaming data

  The streaming data platform vendor added a stream designer and new governance capabilities to its cloud service for organizations working with real-time data coming from Kafka.

• September 23, 2022 23 Sep'22

  How Lufthansa is flying its data warehouse to the cloud

  Moving from an on-premises data system to the cloud can be a complex operation. Lufthansa is looking to remove some of the complexity with virtualization.

• September 21, 2022 21 Sep'22

  CockroachDB serverless database debuts with migration tools

  After a year in preview, the database vendor is making its serverless offering generally available. It provides a new production-ready database for distributed SQL.

• September 20, 2022 20 Sep'22

  Imply advances Apache Druid real-time analytics database

  The database vendor is continuing its effort to evolve the Apache Druid database, developing new capabilities to help users more easily load and transform data.

• September 15, 2022 15 Sep'22

  Google eases cloud database migration, improves Datastream

  Google wants to make migrating to its new AlloyDB database easier for its users as well as provide new support for database migration from PostgreSQL.

• September 13, 2022 13 Sep'22

  Oracle brings MySQL Heatwave cloud database service to AWS

  The tech giant launched a new MySQL cloud database service running on AWS infrastructure that will support both analytical and transactional database workloads.

• September 09, 2022 09 Sep'22

  Kafka co-creator details event data streaming evolution

  The open source Apache Kafka streaming technology and commercial vendor Confluent have grown over the last decade as organizations increasingly have turned to real-time data.

• August 31, 2022 31 Aug'22

  Meta and partners build Velox open source execution engine

  The Facebook parent company, along with multiple contributors, including Ahana, Voltron Data and Intel, are developing a new open source technology to make data processing faster.

• August 30, 2022 30 Aug'22

  Alation adds Snowflake service, updates data catalog

  The vendor launched the Alation Cloud Service for Snowflake designed to enable Snowflake users to more easily use Alation's data intelligence capabilities.

• August 30, 2022 30 Aug'22

  StarTree raises $47M for Apache Pinot-based analytics database

  The vendor raised new money to continue to grow its database technology as the applications for analytics databases have expanded in recent years with more real-time data needs.

• August 24, 2022 24 Aug'22

  Zilliz raises $60M for open source Milvus vector database

  The leading commercial backer behind the open source Milvus database project is looking to advance the technology to build out a database for AI application workloads.

• August 23, 2022 23 Aug'22

  InfluxData eases event streaming data collection

  The new Native Collectors service in the cloud is an attempt by the time series database vendor to let users connect to message broker services and event streaming data.

• August 19, 2022 19 Aug'22

  PlanetScale reaches to the edge with serverless driver

  The vendor continues to build out its database-as-a-service platform and is now aiming to make it easier for developers to connect to edge services.

• August 18, 2022 18 Aug'22

  MariaDB set to expand geospatial database capabilities

  With the purchase of CubeWerx, the database vendor will add geospatial capabilities to its SkySQL database service that will enable satellite imagery analysis in applications.

• August 17, 2022 17 Aug'22

  Arcion data pipeline updates for schema evolution

  The vendor added new database support to its change data capture platform including for BigQuery and Imply, as well as features for schema update and data column transformations.

• August 17, 2022 17 Aug'22

  Cloudera users get fully managed data lakehouse platform

  The vendor is expanding its set of offerings with the launch of CDP One, a service initially available only on AWS that enables serverless deployment in the cloud.

• August 11, 2022 11 Aug'22

  GridGain, Apache Ignite founder talks in-memory databases

  Nikita Ivanov details the origin of his company and discusses the growing need organizations have for real-time database processing capabilities to complete modern transactions.

• August 09, 2022 09 Aug'22

  A look at Presto, Trino SQL query engines

  The co-creator of the open source project at Facebook reflects on 10 years of growth as he helps lead one of its resulting tools into the future.

• July 28, 2022 28 Jul'22

  Truist chief data officer on data management challenges

  The CDO of bank holding company Truist outlines what she sees as an optimal data management culture as the demand for data skills continues to grow.

• July 22, 2022 22 Jul'22

  Apache Beam users detail stream data processing applications

  At a Beam conference, users detail how they're using the open source data processing technology at large scale in support of a growing number of data pipelines.

• July 20, 2022 20 Jul'22

  Oracle Database Service for Azure connects Microsoft to OCI

  Oracle and Microsoft are extending their partnership to enable Microsoft cloud users to directly provision and access Oracle Cloud Infrastructure database services.

• July 19, 2022 19 Jul'22

  Confluent update eases multi-cloud event data streaming

  The event data streaming vendor's new update introduces features to make it easier to integrate into a multi-cloud data stack deployment with the debut of a Terraform provider.

• July 14, 2022 14 Jul'22

  StarRocks brings open source OLAP database to the cloud

  The open source online analytical transaction processing DBaaS startup takes a different approach to accelerate queries as it moves to the cloud.

• July 14, 2022 14 Jul'22

  ScyllaDB V open source NoSQL database embraces WebAssembly

  New release of the open source NoSQL database adds an optimized I/O scheduler to accelerate read/write operations and improve workload scalability.

• July 06, 2022 06 Jul'22

  IBM acquires Databand for data observability technology

  The tech giant continued to build out its data fabric platform by acquiring a data startup with a platform that enables organizations to monitor and optimize data pipelines.

• June 30, 2022 30 Jun'22

  Cloudera embraces Apache Iceberg as cloud data lake evolves

  The Cloudera Data Platform now supports the open source cloud data lake table format as part of the continuing evolution of the broader Hadoop ecosystem.

• June 29, 2022 29 Jun'22

  DataStax extends Astra Streaming event data platform

  The data platform vendor extended its Apache Pulsar-based Astra Streaming platform with support for more streaming protocols, including Kafka, JMS and RabbitMQ.

• June 29, 2022 29 Jun'22

  Yugabyte distributed SQL database adds migration service

  The YugabyteDB 2.15 distributed SQL database update introduces a table group feature to accelerate and optimize performance for different database workloads.

• June 28, 2022 28 Jun'22

  Databricks accelerates data lakehouse at Data + AI Summit

  Databricks committed to making its Delta Lake technology fully open source as the vendor rolled out platform updates to accelerate data analytics and machine learning workloads.

• June 23, 2022 23 Jun'22

  Starburst acquires Varada to accelerate data lake queries

  After a year of partnering, the data lake query vendor decided to acquire fellow Trino SQL query engine supporter Varada to help boost query performance.

• June 22, 2022 22 Jun'22

  Treeverse set to launch LakeFS cloud data lake service

  The open source LakeFS technology gets a fully managed cloud service to help organization better iterate and version cloud data sources for development efforts.

• June 22, 2022 22 Jun'22

  Reltio integrates data quality with cloud MDM platform

  The master data management vendor adds new capabilities to its cloud service to enable organizations to more easily integrate validated data with business operations.

• June 17, 2022 17 Jun'22

  Neon previews serverless PostgreSQL database service

  Startup emerges to launch a new developer-focused cloud database as a service based on open source PostgreSQL, with capabilities to enable branching for application development.

• June 15, 2022 15 Jun'22

  DataStax raises $115M to advance its data stack

  The CEO of the data platform vendor, which is a leading contributor to the open source Cassandra database, details why the vendor is looking to assemble a full data stack.

• June 14, 2022 14 Jun'22

  Yellowbrick 6 advances cloud data warehouse deployments

  The data warehouse vendor is growing its hybrid data warehouse capabilities with version 6.0 of its namesake platform that is now enabled to run on AWS.

• June 14, 2022 14 Jun'22

  Snowflake Data Cloud expands with Unistore Hybrid Tables

  Snowflake adds more capabilities, including support for Apache Iceberg data lake tables and both transactional and analytics workloads, with Hybrid Tables.

• June 09, 2022 09 Jun'22

  Meltano 2.0 provides a superset of open source DataOps tools

  The startup and GitHub spinoff added the Apache Superset business intelligence technology to enable organizations to more easily build full data operations pipelines.

• June 07, 2022 07 Jun'22

  MongoDB 6.0 set to bring analytics to NoSQL database

  The vendor plans to update its database technology with new capabilities including queryable encryption and columnstore index to accelerate data analytics queries.

• June 02, 2022 02 Jun'22

  Incorta integrates Delta Sharing with Direct Data Mapping

  Incorta looks to make it easier for users to collaborate and share data across different sources, to aid business intelligence and data analytics operations.

• June 01, 2022 01 Jun'22

  PlanetScale brings new insights to its database as a service

  The vendor expanded its cloud database service with new capabilities for integrated data observability with insights, as well as the ability to scale read-only replicas.

• May 26, 2022 26 May'22

  Alation boosts data intelligence with Open Data Quality

  The vendor's latest update brings users more integration options to connect with data quality tools and adds more capabilities for data governance to the data catalog platform.

• May 25, 2022 25 May'22

  CockroachDB boosts automation in distributed SQL database

  The database vendor has updated its CockroachDB platform with features to enable users to more reliably scale and control operations to meet data demands.

• May 24, 2022 24 May'22

  Informatica advances Intelligent Data Management Cloud

  The data management vendor added new services to its cloud data platform, including specific offerings for the financial services and healthcare industry verticals.

• May 24, 2022 24 May'22

  Monte Carlo set to boost data observability with $135M raise

  Monte Carlo's CTO provides insight into the state of the data market as the volume of data sources and pipelines continues to be a challenge for organizations to optimize.

• May 18, 2022 18 May'22

  Apollo GraphQL creates supergraph for connected data service

  Apollo is out with updates for its namesake GraphQL platform, including a new router technology and a data federation update to help organizations connect to data sources.

• May 17, 2022 17 May'22

  Percona Platform aims to boost open source database support

  The open source database services provider is out with a new integrated offering that provides automated capabilities for organizations to manage and optimize database operations.

• May 17, 2022 17 May'22

  Imply raises $100M for analytics database technology

  The lead vendor behind the open source Apache Druid database raises new money to help grow its go-to-market efforts and build out new technology as it heads toward a possible IPO.

• May 11, 2022 11 May'22

  Google introduces AlloyDB PostgreSQL-based cloud database

  The tech giant is growing its cloud database portfolio with a new service that add analytics query acceleration to and boosts performance of the PostgreSQL database.

• May 11, 2022 11 May'22

  PingCap brings TiDB distributed SQL HTAP database to cloud

  The TiDB Cloud provides a fully managed deployment of the open source TiDB database, which provides both analytical and transactional processing functionality.

• May 10, 2022 10 May'22

  Talend Data Fabric updates data health functionality

  The data integration vendor is improving its data fabric with enhancements that strengthen its trust score for providing a metric for data quality and health.