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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
- May 10, 2022
10 May'22
Couchbase Server 7.1 advances enterprise NoSQL database
The database vendor is updating its namesake platform with an optimized storage engine and new integrations to connect data sources including cloud data lakes.
- May 04, 2022
04 May'22
Starburst boosts data lake connections and fault tolerance
The data lake query vendor is bringing new features to its platform to optimize queries with the open source Trino query engine across multiple formats and sources.
- May 04, 2022
04 May'22
Alluxio 2.8 improves data orchestration platform security
Open source-based data platform provider Alluxio is updating its namesake technology with enhanced Amazon S3 support and improved security for cloud data access.
- April 28, 2022
28 Apr'22
Hasura enables GraphQL joins for data federation
Connecting multiple GraphQL services is a new feature in the Hasura 2.6 update that helps organizations unify multiple data sources in a data federation.
- April 28, 2022
28 Apr'22
Ocient Hyperscale Data Warehouse scales data operations
The data warehouse vendor is targeting enterprises that need to use a trillion rows of data or more for analysis, with hyperscale technology that is now ready for broader adoption.
- April 26, 2022
26 Apr'22
Akamai goes DBaaS with Linode Managed Database service
The Linode Managed Database service is set to debut, bringing support for the MySQL database and expanding support to include PostgreSQL, Redis and MongoDB in the coming months.
- April 21, 2022
21 Apr'22
Databricks aims data lakehouse at media and entertainment
Gaming vendor Sega is using the data vendor's technology to unify its data for sales as well as game balancing to enable players to get the best experience.
- April 20, 2022
20 Apr'22
Oracle boosts Exadata Cloud Infrastructure with X9M
New hardware is coming to the tech giant's cloud service for database workloads, with the Exadata X9M for more compute and storage to provide increased performance and scale.
- April 19, 2022
19 Apr'22
Confluent secures event data streaming in cloud update
The vendor's Q2 2022 cloud update provides more precise security access control to help organizations better secure, scale and manage the Apache Kafka-based technology platform.
- April 12, 2022
12 Apr'22
Arcion brings change data capture platform to the cloud
Getting data out of one system and into another in the right format as quickly as possible is a challenge the Arcion Cloud service is aiming to address for organizations.
- April 07, 2022
07 Apr'22
Monte Carlo introduces Circuit Breakers for data pipelines
In an effort to help improve data workflow reliability, Monte Carlo is rolling out a new feature that can help organizations stop inaccurate data flows from affecting operations.
- April 07, 2022
07 Apr'22
NetApp acquires Instaclustr for database as a service
Instaclustr is being acquired by NetApp in a bid to the help the vendor grow beyond its on-premises storage roots into the bustling market for cloud software as a service.
- April 06, 2022
06 Apr'22
Google grows cloud capabilities with BigLake data lakehouse
Google is continuing to build out its cloud data services with a new approach that will serve as a central cloud service for unifying data across different clouds and formats.
- April 06, 2022
06 Apr'22
MongoDB 5.3 enhances time series data capabilities
MongoDB is continuing to grow its multimodel database capabilities, adding the ability to help users with gap filling for missing data sets, in the new 5.3 release.
- April 05, 2022
05 Apr'22
Databricks enables Delta Live Tables in data lakehouse
Databricks is looking to make it easier for users to build data pipelines to extract, transform and load data from any source using a Spark SQL data query.
- April 05, 2022
05 Apr'22
Redpanda expands event data streaming with more visibility
Alex Gallego, founder and CEO of Redpanda, discusses why his company acquired Kafka user interface vendor CloudHut, as organizations deal with the challenges of real-time data.
- March 31, 2022
31 Mar'22
Swim Continuum advances event streaming data intelligence
The vendor is continuing to build out its technology aimed at enabling organizations to build applications that use real-time data to improve operations.
- March 29, 2022
29 Mar'22
Oracle HeatWave ML fuses machine learning with database
The tech giant is continuing to build out the capabilities of its MySQL HeatWave cloud database with real-time elasticity, performance boosts and machine learning integration.
- March 29, 2022
29 Mar'22
Pinecone raises $28M to advance vector database
The startup's database technology enables enterprises to use traditional data stores alongside vector-based data to support advanced data queries and search.