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- October 08, 2020
08 Oct'20
Denodo Platform 8.0 expands data virtualization features
The updated platform from Denodo looks to help organizations via enhanced features that connect and query disparate sources of data across different environments.
- October 07, 2020
07 Oct'20
SODA Foundation improves Open Data Framework
An open source data management group enhanced its Open Data Framework with the Greenland 1.1 update, improving multi-cloud file support and expanding connectivity to data storage options.
- October 02, 2020
02 Oct'20
Amazon Timestream time series database generally available
AWS continues to grow its portfolio of cloud database services, as the Amazon Timestream database emerges out of preview to help serve the growing market demand for time series databases.
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- October 01, 2020
01 Oct'20
PostgreSQL 13 advances popular open source database
The open source database project has its first major milestone release of 2020, bringing users accelerated data query performance and optimizations to improve overall operations.
- September 29, 2020
29 Sep'20
Cloudera adds data engineering capability to enable DataOps
Big data vendor Cloudera is looking to help data engineers use its platform with a new service that brings more power and management to running Spark for building data pipelines.
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Sponsored News
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- September 24, 2020
24 Sep'20
Talend evolves enterprise data integration efforts
The CTO of Talend outlines the path the data integration vendor has taken in recent years as the market for big data has evolved along with the need to treat data as an asset.
- September 22, 2020
22 Sep'20
Ahana releases managed Cloud for Presto service
New Ahana cloud system brings a managed service to market that integrates data management and visualization capabilities to aid in business intelligence and data analytics.
- September 18, 2020
18 Sep'20
Aerospike Connect improves integrations with NoSQL database
Aerospike updates connectors for popular data query and event streaming tools, including Kafka, Spark, Pulsar and soon Presto, helping users to get more real-time data.
- September 15, 2020
15 Sep'20
The evolving role of the chief data officer
The job of the chief data officer is expanding to be more strategic as the need for organizations to connect and make sense of vast sums of data continues to grow.
- September 10, 2020
10 Sep'20
Data mapping as a service, a modern form of data discovery
The CEO of ActiveNav provides insight into how data mapping fits into the data management landscape as the vendor launches a new data mapping-as-a-service platform.
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- September 03, 2020
03 Sep'20
Reltio sets new course for master data management strategy
The founder of data management firm Reltio provides insight into the evolving nature of master data management, as organizations look to get a more complete view of their data.
- August 27, 2020
27 Aug'20
Kafka users Northrop Grumman, Walmart highlight event streaming
Walmart and Northrop Grumman talk about deployment and the benefits of using the open source Kafka technology to enable modern data-driven applications.
- August 26, 2020
26 Aug'20
Confluent Platform 6 brings cluster linking to Apache Kafka
Event streaming vendor Confluent adds new cluster linking capabilities in its latest platform update, bringing more scalability for deployments that span multiple clouds.
- August 26, 2020
26 Aug'20
Snowflake IPO shows strength of cloud data warehouse
The cloud data warehouse services vendor files for an IPO as it looks to build out and expand its data portfolio to help organizations manage and analyze data assets.
- August 25, 2020
25 Aug'20
Redis Labs looks to grow database with $100M funding
Redis Labs CEO Ofer Bengal gives insight into the state of the open source Redis database and caching layer, and where the vendor is headed, with a possible IPO on the horizon.
- August 20, 2020
20 Aug'20
Google enhances Cloud Spanner and other databases
Google is adding a series of enhancements to its cloud database portfolio, with new capabilities for the Bigtable data store, Firestore mobile database and other platforms.
- August 18, 2020
18 Aug'20
Informatica CEO outlines digital transformation challenges
Informatica chief Amit Walia gives insight into what organizations need most to enable digital transformation and why enterprise data management is at the foundation.
- August 13, 2020
13 Aug'20
Oracle Autonomous JSON Database takes on MongoDB, Couchbase
The new Autonomous JSON Database is an attempt by Oracle to specifically support customers who only want document database capabilities and not a full multimodel database.
- August 12, 2020
12 Aug'20
K2View takes aim at DataOps with new funding
K2View CEO and co-founder talks about how his company's micro-database fabric approach to user data aims to improve data management by consolidating data in one place.
- August 11, 2020
11 Aug'20
How Riot Games upped its enterprise data governance game
Data governance product manager at Riot Games details how the game vendor dealt with data ownership challenges by embracing new processes and technologies for data management.
- August 04, 2020
04 Aug'20
Isima emerges with bi(OS) converged data platform
Startup launches with the general availability of a converged platform that offers the promise of integrating multiple data management and analysis steps into a single offering.
- July 31, 2020
31 Jul'20
Subsurface event reveals what lies below the cloud data lake
Users at the Dremio-sponsored Subsurface virtual conference detail data lake efforts and trends, including the emerging Apache Iceberg project, originally created by Netflix.
- July 30, 2020
30 Jul'20
Hasura Cloud launches GraphQL-as-a-service platform
Hasura made its GraphQL platform available as a managed service, enabling organizations to connect and query different data sources using the open source GraphQL language.
- July 29, 2020
29 Jul'20
Rockset updates real-time indexing cloud database
Technology based on the open source RocksDB project is helping cloud database vendor Rockset improve scalability for real-time data applications that don't benefit from data lakes.
- July 28, 2020
28 Jul'20
Data accuracy vendor boosts MDM data quality
Naveego's latest platform update introduces a new user interface that looks to make it easier for users to integrate different data sources while ensuring data quality.
- July 23, 2020
23 Jul'20
Immuta adds automated data governance for Databricks
Immuta has extended its data governance with new features that help enterprises with data privacy compliance for Databricks Unified Data Analytics Platform workloads.
- July 23, 2020
23 Jul'20
Starburst advances Presto to handle Hadoop data better
Enterprise Presto SQL vendor Starburst updated its data query platform with expanded support for legacy Hadoop workloads as well as modern cloud data lake deployments.
- July 21, 2020
21 Jul'20
Startup TileDB raises funds to advance universal data engine
A database technology project originally developed at MIT gets new funding that will help the startup database vendor grow and aim at a broader market.
- July 16, 2020
16 Jul'20
Distributed SQL database capabilities come to MariaDB X5
Open source database vendor updates its MariaDB platform with a new release that integrates improved Kafka support and a faster InnoDB storage engine to accelerate performance.
- July 15, 2020
15 Jul'20
YugabyteDB 2.2 improves open source distributed SQL database
Yugabyte updates its open source database platform that is API compatible with both Apache Cassandra and PostgreSQL with improved scalability capabilities.
- July 14, 2020
14 Jul'20
BigQuery Omni enables Google multi-cloud data analytics
Google BigQuery data analytics users can now query data across clouds from multiple providers, including AWS and Microsoft Azure, without the need to first move the data.
- July 10, 2020
10 Jul'20
AWS and Oracle battle for hybrid cloud database deployment
Oracle's Autonomous Database and the Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) are coming down from the cloud and are now available for users to run on premises.
- July 08, 2020
08 Jul'20
SODA Foundation launches to unify open source data management
A new Linux Foundation-sponsored group will support open source data management and promote interoperability between applications and data sources, on premises or cloud-based.
- July 07, 2020
07 Jul'20
Informatica expands enterprise data catalog capabilities
Informatica brought new features to its enterprise data catalog, including Data Asset Analytics, a tool to help organizations understand the value of their data.
- July 02, 2020
02 Jul'20
Ahana brings PrestoDB SQL query engine to the cloud
Soon after announcing its seed round of funding, Ahana launched commercial support services for the open source federated SQL data query technology.
- July 01, 2020
01 Jul'20
Confluent enables infinite Kafka scalability in the cloud
Kafka gets data retention boost that can make it easier for users to store event streaming data for long periods of time, which can help with data analysis.
- June 30, 2020
30 Jun'20
Fivetran raises $100M to advance enterprise data integration
The co-founder and CEO of Fivetran talks about what the vendor is doing to help organizations meet the challenges of enterprise data integration.
- June 25, 2020
25 Jun'20
Databricks debuts Delta Engine built on top of Spark 3.0
At the Spark + AI Summit 2020, Starbucks and health IT vendor Cerner Corp. outlined how they use Databricks' Data Lake architecture to accelerate data analytics.
- June 24, 2020
24 Jun'20
Taking a practical approach to open source PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL database users including Ikea and Konica Minolta Healthcare detail how and why they chose to use the open source database at the Postgres Vision 2020 virtual conference.
- June 23, 2020
23 Jun'20
IBM advances its Cloudant cloud database as DBaaS grows
Adam Kocoloski, VP and CTO of IBM cloud data services, details IBM's direction and strategy for cloud databases and explains why Cloudant is changing to boost scalability.
- June 19, 2020
19 Jun'20
Yellowbrick CEO outlines hybrid path to cloud data warehouse
Neil Carson, co-founder and CEO of Yellowbrick, details the state of data warehouse market and outlines use cases for hybrid on-premises and cloud deployments.
- June 18, 2020
18 Jun'20
Why the open source DBaaS market is hot
Open source database vendors face an array of challenges and opportunities as they flock to the cloud with new database-as-a-service platforms.
- June 16, 2020
16 Jun'20
Apache Hudi grows cloud data lake maturity
The open source Apache Hudi project helps large organizations like Uber with stream processing capabilities that handle billions of records on data lakes every day.
- June 09, 2020
09 Jun'20
Snowflake files for IPO after months of speculation
Cloud data warehouse vendor Snowflake took a major step toward going public on Tuesday, filing an initial public stock offering with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
- June 09, 2020
09 Jun'20
Yugabyte boosts distributed SQL database with new funding
The new CEO of Yugabyte, Bill Cook, explains why his distributed SQL database firm is growing as it raises its Series B round of funding with open source at the foundation.
- June 05, 2020
05 Jun'20
Data growth spawns enterprise data management system challenges
Enterprises are creating and using more data and storing more of it in the cloud. If they use that data strategically, they can improve business outcomes.
- June 02, 2020
02 Jun'20
Snowflake expands cloud data warehouse capabilities
Snowflake is building out its platform with new integrations to enable users to more easily connect to different data sources, including Salesforce Einstein Analytics.
- May 29, 2020
29 May'20
Improving enterprise data governance with data trust
Talend users from Covanta and AutoZone provide insight into data management challenges amid growing data complexity at the Talend Connect virtual conference.
- May 28, 2020
28 May'20
Couchbase sees a blurring line between cloud NoSQL and SQL
Matt Cain, president and CEO of Couchbase, explains why NoSQL is part of digital transformation efforts, as his company prepares to launch a database as a service.
- May 27, 2020
27 May'20
Apache Pulsar joins Kafka in Splunk Data Stream Processor
Splunk is integrating open source Apache Kafka capabilities alongside Apache Pulsar support to better enable its latest Data Stream Processor release.
- May 22, 2020
22 May'20
Instaclustr CTO on open source database as a service
Ben Bromhead, co-founder and CTO of Instaclustr, provides insight into the state of the open source database-as-a-service market as COVID-19 changes priorities and traffic flows.
- May 20, 2020
20 May'20
Percona users detail open source database challenges
Speakers from Shopify and LinkedIn outline open source database cloud and security challenges and best practices at the Percona Live Online conference.
- May 18, 2020
18 May'20
Grafana 7.0 from Grafana Labs expands data visualization
Distributed tracing data joins log metrics in Grafana 7.0 release, providing users with more ways to connect, observe and visualize data coming from different services.
- May 18, 2020
18 May'20
How a synthetic data approach is helping COVID-19 research
Israeli researchers are using a system developed by big data vendor MDClone to collaborate on COVID-19 data to help find ways to deal with the pandemic.
- May 14, 2020
14 May'20
IBM fast-tracks updates to key middleware, Db2 for cloud era
Hoping to close the competitive gap with rivals AWS and Microsoft, IBM plans to revamp its lineup of legacy middleware products with improved cloud and AI technologies.
- May 13, 2020
13 May'20
Redis Labs expands database to real-time data processing
Open source database vendor Redis Labs released RedisGears and RedisAI in an effort to expand the Redis platform beyond database to enable a real-time data processing system.
- May 12, 2020
12 May'20
Cockroach Labs looks to accelerate cloud-native database
Spencer Kimball, co-founder and CEO of Cockroach Labs, talks about the distributed SQL database vendor and its future, with new financing and a new cloud-native database release.
- May 07, 2020
07 May'20
ScyllaDB 4.0 brings DynamoDB to open source NoSQL database
After years of focusing on Apache Cassandra compatibility, ScyllaDB 4.0 now also is compatible with Amazon's DynamoDB, bringing new deployment options for users.
- May 06, 2020
06 May'20
Confluent improves Kafka event streaming in the cloud
Confluent unveiled the first new capabilities of its Project Metamorphosis, designed to help users deploy and manage event streaming in the cloud.
- May 05, 2020
05 May'20
Dremio accelerates cloud data lake queries for AWS
New features in the AWS Edition of Dremio's data lake engine make it easier for organizations to scale and manage data lake queries in the cloud.
- April 30, 2020
30 Apr'20
How a logical data fabric can improve data management
As data continues to grow across different sources, speakers at the Fast Data Strategy virtual summit outline how a logical data fabric approach can help.
- April 29, 2020
29 Apr'20
Couchbase automates cloud-native database management
New version of NoSQL database vendor Couchbase's Autonomous Operator brings more management to cluster administrators for automated cloud-native database deployments.
- April 28, 2020
28 Apr'20
Actian Avalanche Real-Time Connected Data Warehouse adds integration
Actian is expanding its Cloud Data Warehouse with data integration capabilities to enable users to onboard and search data from both cloud and on-premises data sources.
- April 27, 2020
27 Apr'20
Elastic expands data management efforts to workplace search
Elastic previewed a new search service that brings enterprise and software-as-a-service data sources together to help users find relevant data, where it resides.
- April 22, 2020
22 Apr'20
How the GraphQL Foundation is enabling data graphs
The GraphQL Foundation has grown over the course of its first year as database and application developers adopt the API layer approach to connecting different data sources.
- April 20, 2020
20 Apr'20
AWS brings cloud data lake services to bear against COVID-19
AWS has set up a large cloud data lake filled with information and resources on COVID-19 in an effort to help medical researchers fight the global pandemic.
- April 14, 2020
14 Apr'20
Chief data officer role advances enterprise data governance
With organizations of all sizes coping with the impact of COVID-19, the importance of enterprise data governance and chief data officers is coming into sharper focus.
- April 09, 2020
09 Apr'20
How graph data science is helping the fight against COVID-19
Technology to rapidly correlate and connect disparate data sets in a knowledge graph is being used by German researchers and others in the fight against the coronavirus.
- April 07, 2020
07 Apr'20
Okera sees increasing demand for enterprise data governance
Data governance and access vendor raises $14 million as incoming CEO Nick Halsey sees a continuing need for enterprise data governance and secure data access in the COVID-19 era.
- April 03, 2020
03 Apr'20
PlanetScale extends multi-cloud database as a service
Open source-based PlanetScaleDB adds support for Microsoft Azure, enabling a multi-cloud database as a service platform that supports the three major public cloud providers.
- April 02, 2020
02 Apr'20
Oracle NoSQL database comes to the cloud
Another Oracle database is coming to the cloud with the general availability of Oracle NoSQL Database Cloud Service as the demand for database as a service continues to grow.
- April 01, 2020
01 Apr'20
MariaDB SkySQL enables cloud-native database as a service
MariaDB brings back an old name for its cloud-native database-as-a-service platform. MariaDB CEO Michael Howard details how he's looking to compete against the big cloud providers.
- March 31, 2020
31 Mar'20
DataStax making Cassandra easier with Kubernetes Operators
New Kubernetes tool for the Apache Cassandra database is DataStax's attempt to create a broadly adopted approach for cloud native deployment.
- March 26, 2020
26 Mar'20
Ascend boosts enterprise data governance with data lineage
The new capabilities of Ascend Govern bring data lineage and enterprise data governance as well as the ability to try and figure out the financial cost of data efforts.
- March 25, 2020
25 Mar'20
The business benefits of enterprise data governance and MDM
Data leaders from prominent large organizations provide insights into data governance best practices and benefits, at Informatica's MDM 360 and Data Governance virtual conference.
- March 20, 2020
20 Mar'20
Databricks bolsters security for data analytics tool
Databricks looks to bridge the gap between on-premises controls and the cloud with data analytics security policies in the company's latest platform update.
- March 17, 2020
17 Mar'20
Hazelcast Jet 4.0 boosts event streaming data platform
The vendor's real-time event streaming platform gets a boost as the newest version adds support for Python machine learning models to help make sense of the data deluge.
- March 16, 2020
16 Mar'20
Rockset brings Query Lambdas to real-time database
Real-time cloud database looks to help better enable developers to build applications with Query Lambdas capabilities that execute queries and lookups from REST endpoint triggers.
- March 11, 2020
11 Mar'20
Alluxio brings data catalog to data orchestration platform
The newly released Alluxio 2.2 adds new data catalog and transformation capabilities to help organizations bridge the gap between data and analytics.
- March 09, 2020
09 Mar'20
Matillion Data Loader goes GA: No-code tool addresses data ingestion
Matillion's new tool debuts a SaaS approach to help connect and load data from disparate sources without requiring organizations to conduct data transformations.
- March 06, 2020
06 Mar'20
Splice Machine 3.0 integrates machine learning capabilities, database
Monte Zweben, co-founder and CEO of Splice Machine, provides insight into what his distributed SQL database company is doing and where it's headed with its new 3.0 update.
- March 06, 2020
06 Mar'20
DataStax takes aim at open source Cassandra challenges
DataStax has acquired open source Cassandra services firm The Last Pickle, adding in key tools that could help overcome enterprise database adoption challenges.
- March 03, 2020
03 Mar'20
Talend Data Fabric Winter '20 update brings data inventory
Talend's Winter '20 Data Fabric milestone update integrates a new data inventory capability alongside enhanced data pipeline designer capabilities.
- February 25, 2020
25 Feb'20
Databricks Data Ingestion Network brings data to lakehouse
Databricks Ingest entered a public preview in a move by Databricks to enable a lakehouse that combines the best features of the data lake and data warehouse models.
- February 24, 2020
24 Feb'20
Lessons learned from Credit Karma GraphQL architecture
Credit Karma's vice president of engineering explains why and how the personal finance service is using the GraphQL data query technology to support its growing business.
- February 21, 2020
21 Feb'20
EnterpriseDB looks to grow market for PostgreSQL
Enterprises are increasingly using the open source PostgreSQL database. Read in this Q&A where the growth is coming from and how some of it is from users in the cloud.
- February 19, 2020
19 Feb'20
Dell EMC Streaming Data Platform integrates open source technology
Dell combines several open source streaming data technologies, including Apache Kafka, Apache Flink and Pravega, to create a new streaming data platform.
- February 14, 2020
14 Feb'20
Oracle Data Science efforts advance with new services
Oracle adds news new services to its cloud infrastructure platform in a bid to provide data scientists, as well as data analysts, with data management and query functionality.
- February 11, 2020
11 Feb'20
Snowflake raises $479 million to boost cloud data warehouse
Snowflake is looking to grow its data warehouse platform with new funding and a partnership with Salesforce that could differentiate its platform from rivals.
- February 10, 2020
10 Feb'20
GoodData says it is CCPA compliant
GoodData says it is complying with the California Consumer Privacy Act. Meanwhile, founder and CEO Roman Stanek talks about why complexity is a key challenge for data analytics.
- February 05, 2020
05 Feb'20
Couchbase Cloud takes a new approach to database delivery
Open source NoSQL database vendor Couchbase enters the cloud database market with a database as a service that lets users choose which public cloud vendor they want to use.
- February 04, 2020
04 Feb'20
Neo4j 4.0 major update boosts graph database security, scalability
Major milestone release of open source graph database platform enhances security with controls to limit the risk of data traversal and add multi-database support.
- February 03, 2020
03 Feb'20
Pepperdata Query Spotlight provides insight into data queries
New Query Spotlight tool looks to provide visibility across a data analysis cluster into how a query performs over time and why it might have degraded performance.
- January 28, 2020
28 Jan'20
Informatica data management sets a new direction
Five years after going private, Informatica has a new CEO and an updated data platform with new data management capabilities to better enable business users.
- January 23, 2020
23 Jan'20
Hitachi Vantara acquires data catalog vendor Waterline Data
With the acquisition of Waterline Data, Hitachi Vantara is bringing new data catalog capabilities that will expand the Lumada Data Services and DataOps portfolio.
- January 22, 2020
22 Jan'20
New Confluent Platform release boosts event streaming quality
Based on the open-source Kafka event streaming platform, the Confluent Platform 5.4 update adds new capabilities to help meet enterprise data management requirements.
- January 21, 2020
21 Jan'20
Where InfluxDB time series database is going
Users need more than SQL for querying databases, according to Paul Dix, co-founder and CTO of InfluxData. That's why the vendor created the Flux data scripting and query language.
- January 16, 2020
16 Jan'20
MariaDB X4 brings smart transactions to open source database
Open source database vendor MariaDB updates its flagship platform with new features to enable the convergence of transactional and analytical databases.
- January 15, 2020
15 Jan'20
New Oracle Enterprise Manager release advances hybrid cloud
Oracle updates its Enterprise Manager platform to version 13.4, bringing new hybrid management capabilities to database users across on-premises and cloud deployments.
- January 14, 2020
14 Jan'20
Former Hortonworks leader named new Cloudera CEO
Cloudera finds a new leader, pulling the former CEO of Hortonworks back into the fold to help set the direction for the big data Hadoop vendor as it moves forward in 2020.