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- January 15, 2021
15 Jan'21
Informatica takes Customer 360 master data management to cloud
Updated MDM service benefits from integrations with the broader cloud-native Informatica platform that is built on top of a microservices Kubernetes-based architecture.
- January 15, 2021
15 Jan'21
ScyllaDB NoSQL database to improve with Project Circe
ScyllaDB Project Circe sets out to help improve consistency, elasticity and performance for the open source NoSQL database.
- January 13, 2021
13 Jan'21
Oracle Database 21c brings blockchain and JavaScript
Oracle's flagship DB platform is moving beyond its roots with the 21c update, to embrace more languages and models in a bid to create a universal converged database offering.
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- January 12, 2021
12 Jan'21
Cockroach Labs nabs $160M to grow distributed SQL database
Cockroach Labs is looking to advance its CockroachDB database platform in 2021 with $160 million in new funding that it will use to help expand features and market reach.
- January 08, 2021
08 Jan'21
Starburst raises $100M as PrestoSQL rebrands as Trino
Starburst is advancing its enterprise data platform with new funding that will help advance its cloud efforts around the open source Trino query engine formerly known as PrestoSQL.
- January 07, 2021
07 Jan'21
Quest Software adds data governance and DataOps with Erwin
With new data modeling, catalog and governance technology from an acquisition, Quest looks to build a broader data platform to help organizations optimize and benefit from data.
- January 06, 2021
06 Jan'21
Dremio raises $135M to boost data lake transformation effort
The CEO of Dremio outlines why the vendor is growing as organizations increasingly rely on cloud data storage to fuel business intelligence and analytics.
- January 06, 2021
06 Jan'21
How Alation builds on data catalog for data intelligence
Aaron Kalb, co-founder and Chief Data and Analytics Officer (CDAO) of Alation, provides insight into the evolution of his company's technology to embrace data governance that enables data intelligence for organizations to fully benefit from their ...
- December 29, 2020
29 Dec'20
Emerging data management trends to watch in 2021
A number of nascent efforts across the enterprise data landscape became manifest in 2020 that are likely to become larger trends into 2021, including the data lakehouse, Iceberg and Presto.
- December 28, 2020
28 Dec'20
ChaosSearch looks to bring order to data lakes
Data lakes are like junk drawers in the sky, but new tech from ChaosSearch organizes the mess and makes it searchable. Here, CEO Ed Walsh shares the details and what's next in 2021.
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- December 22, 2020
22 Dec'20
Ascend aims to ease data ingestion with low-code approach
Data platform vendor Ascend has announced a new low-code approach to building out data pipelines on cloud data lakes to accelerate analysis and insights.
- December 15, 2020
15 Dec'20
AWS expands cloud databases with data virtualization
At AWS re:invent 2020 the public cloud giant unveiled enhancements to its database and analytics portfolio, including the Babelfish project for migrating from SQL Server to PostgreSQL.
- December 15, 2020
15 Dec'20
Cloud data warehouse Firebolt secures $37 million at launch
Firebolt, a new challenger to established cloud data storage vendors including Microsoft and Google, launched recently after securing $37 million in financing.
- December 11, 2020
11 Dec'20
Stargate API brings GraphQL to Cassandra database
DataStax has integrated the open source Stargate API 1.0 release into its Astra DBaaS platform, bringing GraphQL to the Apache Cassandra database.
- December 10, 2020
10 Dec'20
Varada accelerates data virtualization with Presto
The new Varada Data Platform combines data virtualization with the open source Presto SQL query engine to help enable rapid searches on cloud data lakes.
- December 08, 2020
08 Dec'20
SingleStore raises $80M for distributed SQL database
Raj Verma, CEO of SingleStore, explains why the vendor rebranded from MemSQL and how its platform is more than just an in-memory database, but is a general-purpose database.
- December 04, 2020
04 Dec'20
Collibra grows enterprise data governance for the cloud
Collibra CEO discusses the importance of data governance for enterprises and how to tie data governance to business terminology to go beyond simply controlling data.
- December 02, 2020
02 Dec'20
Oracle MySQL Database Service integrates analytics engine
The enterprise edition of the MySQL database is being enhanced on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to enable users to run analytics queries on the same system as transactional queries.
- November 30, 2020
30 Nov'20
MongoDB Atlas Online Archive brings data tiering to DBaaS
MongoDB's online archive service gives organizations the ability to automatically archive data to lower-cost storage, while still enabling the data to be queried.
- November 25, 2020
25 Nov'20
Ataccama automates data governance with Gen2 platform update
Data management vendor Ataccama adds new automation features to its Gen2 platform to help organizations automatically discover metadata and build an accurate business glossary for data.
- November 24, 2020
24 Nov'20
IBM to deliver refurbished Db2 for the AI and cloud era
IBM has a tuned-up version of Db2 planned, featuring a handful of AI and machine learning capabilities to make it easier for users to send and manage Db2 data across clouds.
- November 23, 2020
23 Nov'20
Fauna improves data API collaboration and security
A database company founded by former Twitter engineers is pushing forward its vision of a way to consume database as a service using its own Fauna Query Language.
- November 20, 2020
20 Nov'20
Yellowbrick data warehouse update boosts workload management
Hybrid cloud data warehouse vendor updates platform with self-healing cluster capabilities and a "penalty box" feature to improve workload management.
- November 18, 2020
18 Nov'20
DataStax optimizes Cassandra for Kubernetes with K8ssandra
The data management vendor is combining monitoring tools, helm charts and an operator to improve Cassandra database deployment and management for cloud-native Kubernetes environments.
- November 17, 2020
17 Nov'20
Snowflake builds out data cloud with Snowpark
Snowflake is continuing to grow the capabilities of its cloud architecture with new developer and security capabilities that aim to help users optimize information.
- November 17, 2020
17 Nov'20
Cockroach adds geospatial data to cloud-native database
Cockroach Labs is updating its namesake database platform with new features that improve security and performance, as well as getting an open source Pebble storage engine.
- November 12, 2020
12 Nov'20
AWS Glue DataBrew a new no-code data preparation tool
AWS Glue DataBrew is a new feature that will enable users to extract, transmit and load data to get it ready for analysis without having to write code.
- November 12, 2020
12 Nov'20
Databricks builds out SQL Analytics for data lakehouse
Databricks is building out its lakehouse platform with a new SQL Analytics service that will make it easier to run SQL queries with better visualization in the cloud.
- November 12, 2020
12 Nov'20
Google brings wizard approach to cloud database migration
Google Cloud's top database executive details the tech giant's new tool for enterprises to move databases to the cloud, as the need has accelerated in the coronavirus pandemic era.
- November 12, 2020
12 Nov'20
New Yugabyte release boosts distributed SQL database security
Yugabyte now has row-level geo-partitioning for its open source distributed SQL database, enhanced multi-region features and several new features to improve security.
- November 03, 2020
03 Nov'20
Informatica update improves cloud data management
Informatica is out with its fall 2020 update, integrating capabilities from its July acquisition of Compact Solutions that advance its enterprise data catalog.
- October 30, 2020
30 Oct'20
Dremio speeds up cloud data lakes for business intelligence
The Dremio fall 2020 update brings new performance to the vendor's cloud data lake engine technology, including Apache Arrow-based caching and runtime filtering.
- October 29, 2020
29 Oct'20
Cazena launches Instant AWS Cloud Data Lake service
Cazena advanced its cloud data platform with an integrated service that helps organizations to more quickly benefit from a cloud data lake running on AWS.
- October 27, 2020
27 Oct'20
Rockset raises $40M for real-time indexing database
The CEO and co-founder of real-time indexing database vendor details the evolution of the company from its origins in the open source RocksDB project to future development projects.
- October 20, 2020
20 Oct'20
MongoDB Atlas now enables multi-cloud database clusters
Multi-cloud data portability comes to MongoDB Atlas with a new capability that will enable users to run a database application across multiple clouds simultaneously.
- October 16, 2020
16 Oct'20
The new normal for enterprise data governance
Mastercard data exec highlights the foundational role of enterprise data governance during the pandemic era with more people working from home and new demands on businesses.
- October 15, 2020
15 Oct'20
Oracle accelerates Exadata database cloud service
More powerful server hardware is coming to the Exadata database service, bringing increased scalability and throughput for Oracle's database and analytics workloads.
- October 14, 2020
14 Oct'20
Idera targets cloud data lake market with Qubole acquisition
Qubole joins the Idera Inc. group of software companies, bringing data pipeline capabilities into the group to target customers that need more cloud data storage.
- October 13, 2020
13 Oct'20
Upsolver advances open cloud data lake, data pipeline efforts
Upsolver enhanced its data preparation platform to transform data lake content into a data lakehouse structure that enables data queries and analysis.
- October 09, 2020
09 Oct'20
Nutanix brings database management into Era 2.0
Nutanix is now looking beyond just on-premises hardware and private clouds to help its users deploy and manage data based across hybrid cloud deployments.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.