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- February 17, 2022
17 Feb'22
Hyperledger expands open source blockchain efforts
The CTO of a major blockchain group provides insight into the growing effort to build open source blockchain technologies for enterprises, though challenges remain.
- February 16, 2022
16 Feb'22
ArangoDB 3.9 scales graph database operations
The open source graph database vendor released a new version of its platform with new features to enable users to better deal with the challenges of growing data workloads.
- February 15, 2022
15 Feb'22
InfluxData expands time series database capabilities
The open source-based InfluxDB platform is adding capabilities to better handle data coming from industrial sensors and devices that enable organizations to optimize operations.
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- February 14, 2022
14 Feb'22
Elastic 8.0 aims to enhance search relevance
Elastic is updating its flagship platform with a major release that adds enhanced vector search and natural language processing capabilities to improve data query results.
- February 10, 2022
10 Feb'22
Data quality startup Superconductive raises $40M
The vendor behind the open source Great Expectations data quality technology is looking to build a commercial cloud service to help data professionals accurately profile data.
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Sponsored News
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- February 10, 2022
10 Feb'22
Oracle Autonomous cloud database gains MongoDB API support
The tech giant continues to build out its multimodel database capabilities with the general availability of a new API for widely used MongoDB applications.
- February 10, 2022
10 Feb'22
ScyllaDB 5.0 set to advance NoSQL database capabilities
At Scylla Summit 2022, the open source NoSQL database vendor introduced upcoming services including a DBaaS as well as a new platform release, and a user outlined its application.
- February 09, 2022
09 Feb'22
Reverse ETL vendor Census raises $60M
Census raises new money as the vendor ramps up its operations to help organizations get data from data warehouses to power large-scale business applications.
- February 09, 2022
09 Feb'22
Starburst brings in $250M to advance data mesh aspirations
The vendor continues on its path toward an initial public offering, as demand for its open source Trino-based data lake query engine platform grows.
- February 07, 2022
07 Feb'22
Analytics database vendor Exasol launches DBaaS on AWS
The OLAP database vendor now has a new cloud service model that provides users with a managed instance for data analysis, business intelligence and machine learning.
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- February 02, 2022
02 Feb'22
Onehouse emerges with managed Apache Hudi data lake service
One of the original creators of the Hudi project at Uber has launched a new company set to bring a managed service to market to operationalize cloud data lakes.
- February 01, 2022
01 Feb'22
Open source database vendor MariaDB set for IPO
As cloud database-as-a-service demand grows, the open source-based relational database vendor is looking to go public, a decade after it was first forked from the MySQL database.
- January 27, 2022
27 Jan'22
Google scales up Cloud Bigtable NoSQL database
Automated scalability is a key theme for the latest set of update features that Google is landing in its cloud managed NoSQL database service, providing users with more capacity.
- January 27, 2022
27 Jan'22
Confluent Kafka connects apps on new Dish 5G network
Streaming data is at the foundation of a new smart 5G service from Dish Network, where enterprises build applications that directly benefit and customize the network platform.
- January 26, 2022
26 Jan'22
Apache Kafka 3.1 opens up data streaming for analytics
The latest release of open source Kafka data streaming technology brings a series of new features that provide users with usability improvements for real-time data queries.
- January 25, 2022
25 Jan'22
Dremio raises $160M for cloud data lake platform technology
The vendor is raising new money as demand for cloud data platform technology continues to grow as enterprises look to improve business intelligence and data analytics.
- January 25, 2022
25 Jan'22
Data access key to Regeneron's innovation efforts
After developing a COVID-19 treatment in mere months, Regeneron adopted a data catalog and is developing a data governance framework to speed up its drug development pipeline.
- January 21, 2022
21 Jan'22
Apache Hop data orchestration hits open source milestone
The open source technology moves beyond its roots to enable a full data platform as data moves from one source to another for operations, business intelligence and analytics.
- January 21, 2022
21 Jan'22
MongoDB 5.2 database improves time series capabilities
The vendor is improving on capabilities introduced in MongoDB 5.0 with an update that continues the company's push to support operational and analytics workloads.
- January 20, 2022
20 Jan'22
Hudi powering data lake efforts at Walmart and Disney+ Hotstar
An open source cloud data lake platform is finding adoption at large organizations including Uber, Walmart and Disney+ Hotstar as the demands of data scale grow.
- January 20, 2022
20 Jan'22
Coalesce launches with data transformation platform
The CEO and co-founder of Coalesce gives insight into the startup's mission and the challenges organizations face with transforming data so that it's useful for data analysts.
- January 19, 2022
19 Jan'22
Confluent Cloud Q1 2022 update boosts event data streaming
The event streaming vendor is expanding its cloud platform with schema linking, data warehouse connectors and a load metrics API to improve scale and performance.
- January 18, 2022
18 Jan'22
Fivetran updates data integration platform with dbt Core
With automated data transformations and new data lineage visualization graphs, Fivetran is looking to make building data pipelines easier for data users.
- January 13, 2022
13 Jan'22
Observable raises $35.6M for data collaboration platform
After spending 15 years at Google, Melody Meckfessel brought at least one key lesson to her data visualization startup Observable: 'no grumpy developers.'
- January 10, 2022
10 Jan'22
Anomalo brings data quality platform to Snowflake
Elliot Shmukler, co-founder and CEO of Anomalo, details how he was inspired to build his data startup after a critical data failure while he was working at Instacart.
- January 05, 2022
05 Jan'22
Western Union looks to improve data quality with Talend
Thomas Mazzaferro, chief data officer at Western Union, outlines the financial services company's approach to cloud data migration and how Talend fits into the data architecture.
- December 17, 2021
17 Dec'21
Data forecast for 2022: Data quality and cloud convergence
Expect data quality to be a top area of investment and activity next year as the need to trust data for operations, insight and machine learning will only continue to grow.
- December 16, 2021
16 Dec'21
Data management trends in 2021: More money, more cloud
In 2021, interest in the cloud data lakehouse model helped to propel multiple vendors forward as new serverless database-as-a-service systems emerged as well.
- December 16, 2021
16 Dec'21
Cockroach Labs raises $278M for distributed SQL database
The cloud database vendor has appealed to enterprises with its data capabilities and continues to attract investors as the market opportunity expands.
- December 13, 2021
13 Dec'21
SnapLogic raises $165M to fund AI data integration
The data integration vendor's fundraising success shows the growth the iPaaS and RPA markets have seen in recent years, with a steady pace of investment and acquisitions.
- December 10, 2021
10 Dec'21
Vendia expands serverless blockchain data sharing platform
The Vendia Share service gets new features that enable more database-type capabilities, alongside smart contracts to support complex business rules.
- December 09, 2021
09 Dec'21
Why Criteo chose Aerospike real-time database
Criteo is in the process of migrating to Aerospike Database to reduce the number of servers it needs to power its global advertising marketplace from 5,000 to 600.
- December 08, 2021
08 Dec'21
Calyptia spurs observability data with Fluent Bit Enterprise
Collecting first-mile log data that is as close to the source as possible is the open source startup's goal as it builds out new commercial services.
- December 06, 2021
06 Dec'21
LogDNA raises $50M for observability data
The LogDNA CEO discusses challenges and the need for organizations to collect and analyze log data to enable operations, DevOps and security applications.
- December 03, 2021
03 Dec'21
AWS cloud database users detail applications
AWS has more than one database to choose from, as the cloud provider aims to provide users like eHealth and HBO Max with technologies to meet different use cases.
- December 01, 2021
01 Dec'21
AWS aims to ease cloud database management and migration
The tech giant is looking to help its users to better migrate to, manage and operate cloud databases with a series of new data management product releases and updates.
- November 30, 2021
30 Nov'21
AWS Lake Formation advances cloud data lake control
AWS added new features to its cloud data lake service, featuring Governed Tables to manage consistency of data and row-level access control for security.
- November 23, 2021
23 Nov'21
American Airlines flies its data warehouse to the cloud
The pandemic hit American Airlines hard, but its management took an optimistic view, seeing at as an opportunity to use data more effectively to improve operations.
- November 19, 2021
19 Nov'21
LogicMonitor introduces centralized log management platform
The data observability platform vendor's new platform enables enterprises to use AIOps and automation to find anomalies with their IT system, report them and head off widespread problems.
- November 19, 2021
19 Nov'21
Starburst Enterprise brings Apache Iceberg to data lakehouse
A new Starburst Enterprise release brings in new capabilities to help organizations use the Trino SQL query engine to analyze data stored on premises and in the cloud.
- November 17, 2021
17 Nov'21
Hightouch raises $40M for reverse ETL data platform
Co-founder Kashish Gupta provides insight into the data challenges that led Hightouch to develop a new approach to getting data out of data warehouses and into operational tools.
- November 16, 2021
16 Nov'21
CockroachDB update scales distributed SQL database
The latest database release from Cockroach Labs focuses on providing optimized capabilities for large deployments that can handle up to a petabyte of data.
- October 12, 2021
12 Oct'21
Google expands Cloud Spanner database with PostgreSQL
A year after it was first introduced, Google's BigQuery Omni multi-cloud data platform is now generally available as Google continues to push its data agenda in the cloud.
- October 07, 2021
07 Oct'21
How DataOps can improve healthcare outcomes
DataOps is more than just DevOps for data. It's a set of data orchestration, operations and management tools and principles that help organizations improve data pipelines.
- October 06, 2021
06 Oct'21
ArangoDB advances graph database fortunes with new funding
Claudius Weinberger, co-founder and CEO of ArangoDB, discusses why the vendor is raising money to meet the growing demand for graph database technology.
- September 30, 2021
30 Sep'21
Ascend extends flex-code data connectors
The data platform vendor looks to enable organizations to more easily read and write data from different data sources with a new low-code connector framework.
- September 30, 2021
30 Sep'21
PostgreSQL 14 improves open source database performance
The open source database has extended its JSON unstructured data support and enhanced its stored procedures capabilities to give users more database power.
- September 28, 2021
28 Sep'21
HPE intros GreenLake data lakehouse fabric for analytics
HPE taps multiple open source technologies, including Kubernetes, Apache Spark and Delta Lake, for developing new data fabric services on its GreenLake cloud platform.
- September 21, 2021
21 Sep'21
Nutanix boosts data management services in the cloud
Nutanix is aiming to make it easier to manage, deploy and protect data and databases across hybrid and multi-cloud environments with a series of product updates.
- September 15, 2021
15 Sep'21
Kafka streaming data gets governance from Confluent
Apache Kafka event streaming from Confluent helps online grocery provider Instacart deliver milk to customers when they need it, by helping to power real-time inventory updates.
- September 15, 2021
15 Sep'21
StreamNative raises $23M for Apache Pulsar data streaming
Leading vendor behind the open source event streaming project raised new funds to help build out a cloud platform for event data and message streaming.
- September 14, 2021
14 Sep'21
Snowflake aims at financial services with data cloud
Snowflake launches its new Data Cloud offering as it continues to expand the range of applications and capabilities for its customers, including Western Union and Capital One.
- September 14, 2021
14 Sep'21
Alation boosts platform with new data governance application
The new Alation service provides a series of capabilities to improve governance, including a centralized dashboard and data steward workbench for managing workflow.
- September 13, 2021
13 Sep'21
Materialize brings streaming SQL database to the cloud
To date, streaming database startup Materialize has not had a managed cloud service -- but that's changing, with a preview of the company's cloud DBaaS platform.
- September 09, 2021
09 Sep'21
How VMware's CDO views data management
The chief data officer of the virtualization vendor details her views on the increasing challenges of dealing with growing volumes of data and the critical importance of data governance.
- August 31, 2021
31 Aug'21
Databricks raises $1.6B more to boost data lakehouse
Investors are super confident in the growth potential for cloud data management and analytics as the impact of the Snowflake IPO continues to ripple through the industry.
- August 31, 2021
31 Aug'21
Apache Drill improves big data SQL query engine
Open source SQL query engine gets new release that will expand the number of data sources that can be queried, including Elasticsearch, Splunk and Apache Cassandra.
- August 27, 2021
27 Aug'21
Rockset advances real-time streaming data SQL queries
Rockset previews new features in its cloud database platform to help organizations more easily use real-time data to support data analytics and business intelligence.
- August 25, 2021
25 Aug'21
Cribl brings in $200M to advance data lake observability
Cribl looks to grow its LogStream platform capabilities with new funding that will help the vendor grow operations and advance its data lake visibility technology.
- August 20, 2021
20 Aug'21
With Amazon MemoryDB, AWS takes aim at Redis in the cloud
The tech giant is offering its users a new managed Redis-compatible in-memory database platform that will compete against services from Redis, Google and Microsoft.
- August 19, 2021
19 Aug'21
Hitachi Vantara expands Lumada DataOps suite
Hitachi Vantara integrated its data management technologies into a new product suite intended to help organizations with data operations. Data governance is coming next.
- August 17, 2021
17 Aug'21
Apollo GraphQL raises $130M to enable graph layer
The CEO and co-founder of a graph layer vendor provides insight into the growing need for the graph layer as a data technology to help connect the front end to the back end.
- August 17, 2021
17 Aug'21
Confluent builds out Kafka event streaming platform
Confluent aims to make it easier for users to query data in motion coming from Apache Kafka, with the ksqlDB pull query capability in its cloud platform update.
- August 17, 2021
17 Aug'21
Monte Carlo raises $60M to advance data observability
Vendor Monte Carlo brought in new funding as it builds out new capabilities to bring more data trust and visibility to both data warehouses and data lakes.
- August 16, 2021
16 Aug'21
MongoDB CTO's view of data challenges
The database vendor CTO discusses cloud migration, organizational structure and collaboration, go-to-market challenges organizations face, and the value of a chief data officer.
- August 11, 2021
11 Aug'21
Talend updates data fabric with more collaboration
With its summer 2021 update, data integration vendor Talend boosted its data sharing and integration features to help business users share trusted data sources.
- August 10, 2021
10 Aug'21
Kyligence 4.5 adds Clickhouse to Intelligent Data Cloud
The open source Clickhouse OLAP database joins the Apache Kylin analytical data warehouse in a new update that provides a platform for different types of data queries.
- August 10, 2021
10 Aug'21
Oracle puts MySQL HeatWave on Autopilot
Oracle updated its MySQL database cloud service with new capabilities designed to automate and optimize database operations and query execution.
- August 06, 2021
06 Aug'21
Why City Furniture embraced data virtualization
With data coming from on-premises and cloud sources and spanning legacy systems, databases and even flat files, City Furniture faced problems bringing all its data together.
- August 04, 2021
04 Aug'21
Varada scales cloud data platform with new release
Varada realized it needed more flexibility to help its users scale its data lake query platform, so it added elasticity capabilities to help meet that demand.
- August 03, 2021
03 Aug'21
Ahana raises $20M for Presto cloud data lake query tech
Ahana looks to grow the market for its open source-based cloud data query engine as the volume of stored data that organizations want to analyze continues to expand.
- July 30, 2021
30 Jul'21
Couchbase NoSQL database adds relational capabilities
With its latest update, Couchbase introduced features that bring the equivalent of tables and schema to its database to reduce friction for those moving from a relational database.
- July 28, 2021
28 Jul'21
Trifacta moves beyond data wrangling to DataOps
'Data wrangling' is a term that Trifacta assigns to data preparation, but there is more than that to the concept as part of the vendor's Data Engineering Cloud platform.
- July 27, 2021
27 Jul'21
Apache Cassandra 4.0 advances open source database
Among the new features in the open source Cassandra database update are virtual tables that help operators improve performance and optimize operations.
- July 22, 2021
22 Jul'21
Couchbase IPO brings NoSQL database to the stock market
Couchbase makes a move into the public markets with a Nasdaq listing as it continues to develop its NoSQL database technology that runs on premises and in the cloud.
- July 22, 2021
22 Jul'21
Observable expands enterprise data visualization platform
Observable expanded its platform for larger organizations to collaborate on data projects that make information more intuitive to understand and use.
- July 20, 2021
20 Jul'21
Monte Carlo Incident IQ looks to improve data observability
Various problems can cause data pipelines to break or contain inaccurate information. Monte Carlo aims to help its users figure out the root cause and fix it.
- July 14, 2021
14 Jul'21
Hazelcast Platform integrates data grid and event streaming
Hazelcast's new technology will provide a unified SQL query engine on a single cluster that will allow users to query both real-time data and data at rest.
- July 14, 2021
14 Jul'21
Informatica brings data governance and data catalog to cloud
Informatica moves more of its on-premises capabilities into the cloud as it aims to provide an integrated data platform for multiple use cases, including analytics and AI.
- July 13, 2021
13 Jul'21
MongoDB 5.0 expands open source document database operations
At the MongoDB.live 2021 virtual conference, the vendor unveiled its next-generation database platform with more time-series data support and live re-sharding capabilities.
- July 09, 2021
09 Jul'21
Rockset adds MySQL connector to real-time indexing database
Rockset made a set of connectors for MySQL and PostgreSQL generally available. The tools enable real-time data indexing for analytics on transactional data.
- July 08, 2021
08 Jul'21
Silk advances cloud data migration with $55M funding round
Silk has developed a virtualized data system that abstracts cloud resources, helping organizations port their on-premises databases to the cloud.
- July 07, 2021
07 Jul'21
Meltano spins out from GitLab to advance DataOps platform
Douwe Maan, founder and CEO of Meltano, outlines the new data startup's approach as it raises seed funding to advance an open source ELT system.
- June 25, 2021
25 Jun'21
Fivetran looks to Teleport Data for database replication
Fivetran is expanding its data integration capabilities with data validation technology that takes a different approach than change data capture for database replication.
- June 24, 2021
24 Jun'21
Firebolt raises $127M to fuel cloud data warehouse efforts
Firebolt looks to grow in the cloud data warehouse market with a proprietary file format and a focus on enabling developers to build data-driven apps on top of cloud data lakes.
- June 24, 2021
24 Jun'21
Confluent goes IPO as Kafka event streaming goes mainstream
The lead commercial vendor behind the open source Apache Kafka event streaming platform goes public as the market opportunity for data in motion grows.
- June 23, 2021
23 Jun'21
SingleStore updates unified database platform
The database vendor formerly known as MemSQL is out with a major update that adds new storage and multicolumn key support functionality to its unified database platform.
- June 23, 2021
23 Jun'21
PlanetScale CEO discusses $30M funding for cloud database
The CEO and co-founder of PlanetScale, Jiten Vaidya, outlines the challenges and opportunities for his firm's open source distributed SQL cloud database.
- June 17, 2021
17 Jun'21
Neo4j raises $325M in funding to advance graph database
Emil Eifrem, CEO and co-founder of Neo4j, discusses how the graph database vendor is seeing growing demand for its technology, with applications for data science and supply chain.
- June 16, 2021
16 Jun'21
Healthcare device maker boosts production with data quality
One of the world's biggest ventilator manufacturers ramped up production during the pandemic by improving its own data health to better understand and optimize operations.
- June 10, 2021
10 Jun'21
Quest updates Erwin Data Modeling and Data Intelligence
Quest is looking to build out what it calls a data empowerment platform with the help of data modeling and other technology from its recently acquired Erwin business unit.
- June 10, 2021
10 Jun'21
Prefect raises $32M for dataflow automation technology
Data startup Prefect is looking to grow its open source project and commercial business to help organizations manage automated data pipeline requirements.
- June 08, 2021
08 Jun'21
Snowflake expands cloud data warehouse platform to Snowpark
Snowflake customer Instacart, the online grocery giant, uses the Snowpark cloud data warehouse to list all its services in a data catalog to improve the user experience.
- June 04, 2021
04 Jun'21
Dremio accelerates data lake operations with Dart Initiative
The cloud data lake engine platform vendor looks to accelerate queries with its Dart Initiative, which uses a query cache plan to optimize SQL queries against data lakes.
- June 03, 2021
03 Jun'21
Q&A: Inside data catalog vendor Alation's $110M in funding
Alation co-founder and CEO Satyen Sangani shares why his company is raising money, where the technology is headed, and challenges facing data intelligence and data catalog technology.
- June 03, 2021
03 Jun'21
Cribl aims to ease data observability with LogStream update
LogStream 3.0 brings new configuration capabilities to Cribl's pipeline technology that can help organizations optimize log and metrics data.
- June 01, 2021
01 Jun'21
After sluggish revenues, Cloudera goes private in $5.3B deal
Big data vendor Cloudera is looking to expand its SaaS capabilities by exiting the public markets and acquiring startups Cazena and Datacoral to bring new self-service features.
- May 27, 2021
27 May'21
Google Datastream advances change data capture in the cloud
At Google's Data Cloud Summit, a new service released in preview to enable users to capture data from other sources to bring into Google's cloud data and analytics services.
- May 26, 2021
26 May'21
Databricks opens up data lakes for data sharing
At its virtual Data + AI Summit, the AI vendor detailed new capabilities to make information stored in cloud data lakes more accessible and secure.
- May 26, 2021
26 May'21
Microsoft builds distributed ledger for Azure SQL database
The tech giant debuted new database services, including more security for Azure Database for PostgreSQL and MySQL, and a distributed ledger for Azure SQL.