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• May 06, 2021 06 May'21

  MariaDB expands SkySQL cloud database for high availability

  The Xpand distributed SQL capability is now generally available on the MariaDB SkySQL DBaaS, providing users with more performance and scalability.

• May 05, 2021 05 May'21

  Future of data management is in the cloud

  Organizations are increasingly moving their data management efforts to the cloud with cloud database systems set to produce the majority of revenue by 2022.

• May 04, 2021 04 May'21

  Syniti boosts DataOps chops with DMR merger

  The CEO of an enterprise data management vendor explains why his firm is merging with Data Migration Resources to expand their reach and data quality offerings.

• April 27, 2021 27 Apr'21

  Oracle Enterprise Manager 13.5 unifies database management

  The updated tool introduces a database workload analyzer feature to help administrators optimize operation on premises and in the cloud.

• April 22, 2021 22 Apr'21

  Redis Labs previews future database and caching features

  Open source database vendor previews a series of upcoming improvements as Redis users at RedisConf 2021 provide insights into how they are using the technology today.

• April 21, 2021 21 Apr'21

  Oracle brings GoldenGate data integration service to cloud

  Oracle is making its GoldenGate real-time data technology available on its second-generation Oracle Cloud Infrastructure platform, as well as enabling multi-cloud operations.

• April 20, 2021 20 Apr'21

  Era Software raises $15.25M for enterprise data management

  The startup that began as the EraDB time series database is advancing its efforts with new funding and a cloud service for its EraSearch data management platform.

• April 20, 2021 20 Apr'21

  Dgraph GraphQL database users detail graph use cases

  Graph DB vendor Dgraph Labs is expanding its AWS cloud footprint with new regions and adding change data capture capabilities in its latest open source release.

• April 19, 2021 19 Apr'21

  Pandemic triggered data security movement to DBaaS

  Database-as-a-service technology has aided enterprises tasked with keeping data secure with IT professionals working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic.

• April 15, 2021 15 Apr'21

  Soda launches cloud service to improve data observability

  Data quality vendor Soda has had a busy 2021, building out new services and raising funding to help organizations identify and remediate data quality problems.

• April 15, 2021 15 Apr'21

  Bigeye raises $17M Series A funding to boost data quality

  The former Uber product manager and current CEO and co-founder of a startup outlines the challenges and opportunities of enabling a new data trust platform with data quality at its foundation.

• April 13, 2021 13 Apr'21

  Informatica pulls together cloud data management in the cloud

  Informatica rolls out its Intelligent Data Management Cloud, as customers provide insight into cloud data management challenges and opportunities at Informatica World 2021.

• April 07, 2021 07 Apr'21

  Alation brings data catalog technology to the public cloud

  Alation's data intelligence technology is getting easier for organizations to use, with a new managed service that can help enterprises better use the data they have.

• April 07, 2021 07 Apr'21

  Yellowbrick Manager embraces Kubernetes for data warehouse

  Yellowbrick is building out a new unified control plane to help users manage distributed cloud data warehouse deployments. The vendor also advanced its data lake integration.

• April 07, 2021 07 Apr'21

  Trifacta unveils new integrations to enable data wrangling

  Trifacta on Wednesday unveiled an updated tool to enable customers to work with their directly in Google BigQuery along with two new integrations designed to improve data preparation.

• April 06, 2021 06 Apr'21

  Upsolver raises $25M for no-code data lake platform

  Upsolver's CEO discusses why the vendor is raising new money to advance its cloud data lake go-to-market efforts, and technologies such as the open source Presto query engine.

• April 02, 2021 02 Apr'21

  Vaccination data poses data management challenges for firms

  If companies are considering the use of vaccination credentials to reopen offices, IT teams should start planning now.

• March 30, 2021 30 Mar'21

  Aiven set to grow open source database-as-a-service platform

  There is no shortage of challenges and competition in the open source database market, but Aiven CTO Heikki Nousiainen sees opportunities for growth.

• March 26, 2021 26 Mar'21

  Presto users detail what's next for open source SQL engine

  The open source Presto project is gaining adoption beyond just Uber and Facebook as the need to connect and query disparate sources of data continues to be in demand.

• March 24, 2021 24 Mar'21

  CrateDB 4.5 takes distributed SQL database open source

  The distributed SQL database vendor is out with a new version of its CrateDB database that brings improved security and management features for on-premises and cloud deployments.

• March 24, 2021 24 Mar'21

  Incorta 5 advances direct data mapping technology

  The big data analytics platform vendor will add more data connectors and advance data visualization capabilities as enterprises' need for more insights from data continues to grow.

• March 17, 2021 17 Mar'21

  Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse updated with new data tools

  Oracle is updating its cloud data warehouse platform with new tools that aim to enable users to more easily benefit from data analytics and machine learning predictions.

• March 17, 2021 17 Mar'21

  Instaclustr acquires Credativ to boost managed databases

  The managed open source database services vendor is looking to grow its platform offering by bringing in new expertise to enable PostgreSQL deployments.

• March 16, 2021 16 Mar'21

  Starburst and Varada partner for Trino data platform effort

  Managing Trino, the open source project formerly known as PrestoSQL, could get easier and faster with a new partnership from two leading vendors in the market.

• March 12, 2021 12 Mar'21

  Flatfile looks to be universal translator for data loading

  Startup raises new funding to help advance its vision for making it easier for business users to extract, load and transform data from one source to another.

• March 10, 2021 10 Mar'21

  Precisely looks to boost data integrity software platform

  Precisely is getting an infusion of capital as it moves forward with its decades-long business mission to help organizations use data effectively to make key decisions.

• March 09, 2021 09 Mar'21

  Apache Daffodil advancing Data Format Description Language

  Data integration and data loading efforts could get easier to execute, as open source DFDL project becomes a Top-Level Project at the Apache Software Foundation.

• March 05, 2021 05 Mar'21

  Oracle Database 21c looks for adoption of blockchain tables

  Blockchain isn't just for cryptocurrency. The technology can be an additional layer of security and authenticity enabling an immutable transaction ledger in a relational database.

• March 04, 2021 04 Mar'21

  Yugabyte raises $48M to build out distributed SQL database

  The leader of a young open source database company explains why the vendor is raising new money as the demand for cloud scalability continues to grow.

• March 02, 2021 02 Mar'21

  Microsoft ignites Apache Cassandra Azure service

  Microsoft rolled out a series of enhancements for the company's cloud data efforts, including updates to Azure Cosmos DB and a new database service for Cassandra.

• March 02, 2021 02 Mar'21

  Airbyte set to advance open source data integration platform

  The CEO of a data integration startup explains how he is looking to grow the technology and community behind the vendor's open source data extract and loading platform.

• February 25, 2021 25 Feb'21

  DataStax Astra serverless DBaaS optimizes deployments

  DataStax is changing how its DBaaS works, providing a way for users to more easily scale both up and own and only pay for the resources that are consumed.

• February 25, 2021 25 Feb'21

  AWS Data Exchange and the third-party cloud data marketplace

  The general manager of the AWS Data Exchange data feed service details what the cloud data marketplace is all about and where it's headed in the future.

• February 23, 2021 23 Feb'21

  Hasura 2.0 expands GraphQL API-to-database connectivity

  Hasura is looking beyond solely transactional databases with its new platform update, enabling users to more easily connect with BigQuery as well as other data sources.

• February 19, 2021 19 Feb'21

  Alation 2021.1 data catalog improves data intelligence

  Alation updated its platform with new features for data discovery and search, as well as more data governance capabilities to enhance data trust.

• February 18, 2021 18 Feb'21

  Grafana Enterprise brings observability stack on premises

  Grafana Labs is launching a new on-premises project stack for data observability, based on a series of open source projects that the company leads or supports.

• February 16, 2021 16 Feb'21

  Matillion raises $100M for ETL to enable data middleware

  The co-founder and CEO of Matillion, talks about his company’'s latest round of Series D funding and how data will be the key to success for many organizations in 2021.

• February 16, 2021 16 Feb'21

  New SingleStore CIO's vision is to enrich lives through data

  Oliver Schabenberger is moving from BI and analytics to data management, and in this Q&A discusses his surprising departure from an established vendor to go to a newer company.

• February 12, 2021 12 Feb'21

  YugabyteDB 2.4 brings new Spark to distributed SQL database

  Distributed SQL database vendor issues new stable release of its platform, adding support for Apache Spark 3.0 and encryption for data at rest.

• February 12, 2021 12 Feb'21

  Starburst Galaxy brings Trino to the cloud

  Starburst previewed a new managed service based on the open source Trino-based data management and query engine platform technology during the Datanova virtual conference.

• February 11, 2021 11 Feb'21

  Talend CEO talks about vendor's growth strategy

  With its cloud business a primary driver of growth, Talend is progressing toward the goal of increasing annual revenue from $250 million to $1 billion.

• February 10, 2021 10 Feb'21

  Time series database firm EraDB launches Erasearch

  EraDB made its EraSearch log management platform generally available, providing organizations with a system that can help improve performance and scalability.

• February 09, 2021 09 Feb'21

  Monte Carlo gets new funding to expand data observability

  The CEO of data management startup Monte Carlo, which raised $25 million in Series B funding Tuesday, details her views on the key pillars of data reliability.

• February 05, 2021 05 Feb'21

  Hazelcast Jet 4.4 brings SQL to stream processing engine

  Hazelcast Jet brings new SQL query capabilities to the stream processing platform that will enable developers to continuously query streaming data without interrupting data flow.

• February 04, 2021 04 Feb'21

  Vendia raises $15.5M for serverless blockchain data sharing

  Vendia is building out its data platform that uses distributed ledger blockchain technology to help organizations and developers more easily share data.

• February 03, 2021 03 Feb'21

  Collibra acquires predictive data quality vendor OwlDQ

  With OwlDQ, Collibra is bringing data quality capabilities to its data intelligence platform to help users better understand and evaluate the impact of different sources of data.

• February 02, 2021 02 Feb'21

  MongoDB Realm Sync simplifies cloud data synchronization

  MongoDB put into general availability its mobile Realm database to data synchronization service, easing the challenge for developers to connect data from the edge to the cloud.

• February 01, 2021 01 Feb'21

  Databricks fueling data lakehouse goals with $1B funding round

  Databricks gets a major vote of confidence from big name investors, including Franklin Templeton, as it raises new funding to help it advance its cloud data management technology efforts.

• January 29, 2021 29 Jan'21

  Apache Iceberg rising for new cloud data lake platforms

  The open source Apache Iceberg project is helping to define a new data tier for cloud data lakes that can help to improve performance and access for large data sets.

• January 27, 2021 27 Jan'21

  DataStax enters event streaming market with Apache Pulsar

  DataStax is getting into the event streaming market with the acquisition of Kesque, which uses the open source Apache Pulsar project as the foundation for its platform.

• January 27, 2021 27 Jan'21

  Neo4j unveils cloud graph database for the enterprise

  Neo4j Aura Enterprise is a fully-managed cloud database built for large organizations. The vendor previously developed Aura Professional, a similar tool for SMBs.

• January 21, 2021 21 Jan'21

  Kyligence builds out data cloud for OLAP and big data

  Kyligence is advancing the Apache Kylin project with a cloud-native offering that can help organizations more efficiently execute and manage data queries against large data sets.

• January 20, 2021 20 Jan'21

  Fivetran data connectors boost enterprise data integration

  An enterprise data integration vendor is building out its suite of data connectors with updates for organizations to create data pipelines for business processes and analytics.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.