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AWS data warehousing and analytics

• December 04, 2019 04 Dec'19

  Amazon cloud database and data analytics expand

  AWS expands its Redshift data warehouse capabilities including managed storage and query acceleration at the re:Invent 2019 conference, alongside a new managed Cassandra database service.

• December 02, 2019 02 Dec'19

  Vendors move away from open source database software licensing

  While open source is a key to success for many database vendors, it can also potentially lead to a competitive threat from a cloud scale provider.

• September 30, 2019 30 Sep'19

  Cloud database services multiply to ease admin work by users

  The list of vendors offering managed cloud database services is growing rapidly, which gives IT teams more opportunities to offload management of database systems.

• September 26, 2019 26 Sep'19

  Quilt Data emerges from stealth to enable cloud data search

  Startup emerges with a new approach to organize and search cloud data storage repositories.

• September 25, 2019 25 Sep'19

  Cloudera Data Platform gives big data users multi-cloud path

  Cloudera released a big data platform combining its technologies and ones from Hortonworks, initially in the AWS cloud but with multi-cloud support to come.

• September 12, 2019 12 Sep'19

  Amazon Quantum Ledger Database brings immutable transactions

  Based on technology built internally at Amazon, the tech giant's newest database provides a centralized approach for enabling a cryptographically secure ledger system.

• August 15, 2019 15 Aug'19

  AWS Lake Formation goes GA, as cloud data lake market grows

  First released in late 2018, AWS Lake Formation is now generally available and it could be the force that helps to accelerate adoption in the cloud data lake market.

• July 03, 2019 03 Jul'19

  Snowflake product VP expounds on data warehouse for the cloud

  In this Q&A, Christian Kleinerman, vice president of product development at cloud data warehouse vendor Snowflake, talks about the fast-moving company's plans for the next year.

• June 26, 2019 26 Jun'19

  Immuta Automated Data Governance Platform comes to AWS

  Immuta's Automated Data Governance Platform, providing data visibility, accessibility and protection, is now available as a managed service on AWS Marketplace.

• May 07, 2019 07 May'19

  ProvenDB brings blockchain applications to world of MongoDB

  Blockchain is intriguing technology, but carries with it high system overhead. ProvenDB adds blockchain to MongoDB in an effort to gain acceptable performance.

• February 01, 2019 01 Feb'19

  Open source cloud databases battle software 'strip mining'

  Cloud giants like AWS have adopted open source databases, causing Confluent, MongoDB and others to guard their assets the best way they know how: licensing.

• December 14, 2018 14 Dec'18

  Data companies vie to fill spots in AWS cloud data lineup

  Third-party vendors that offer data platforms to AWS users tout hedges against cloud lock-in. But they must both compete and collaborate with the cloud leader.

• November 30, 2018 30 Nov'18

  Amazon Timestream, QLDB aim to grab more DBMS users for AWS

  Built-for-purpose databases target general ones, especially in the cloud. At re:Invent 2018, AWS added time-series and transaction ledger databases to expand its line.

• October 12, 2018 12 Oct'18

  MarkLogic Data Hub Service aims to ease cloud use of NoSQL DBMS

  MarkLogic rolled out a cloud-service version of its NoSQL database management system, a move designed to make the technology more cost-effective for cloud users.

• December 01, 2017 01 Dec'17

  AWS graph database Amazon Neptune sets sail at re:Invent 2017

  After Cyber Monday, Amazon Web Services techies headed for re:Invent 2017. There, among a deluge of cloud product announcements by AWS, the Amazon Neptune graph database surfaced.

• October 30, 2017 30 Oct'17

  Connectedness is king, as Neo4j graph database ports to Spark

  The Neo4j graph database emphasizes easy relationship mapping for diverse data points. Now, its related Cypher query language is hooking into Apache Spark.

• October 05, 2017 05 Oct'17

  Big data systems up ante on data quality measures for users

  At the Strata conference in New York, IT managers detailed steps they're taking to improve data quality in their big data environments in order to help ensure analytics accuracy.

• June 23, 2017 23 Jun'17

  MongoDB Atlas footprint grows bigger with Azure, Google cloud support

  MongoDB has expanded cloud coverage for its Atlas hosted database service, with Azure and Google versions joining an initial AWS-based offering to give users a choice on cloud platforms.

• May 12, 2017 12 May'17

  Startup Confluent makes Kafka cloud play to ease streaming deployment

  Kafka is a linchpin in many on-premises big data pipelines. Now, software vendor Confluent is offering a Kafka cloud service to ease use of the messaging and data streaming system in the cloud.

• April 20, 2017 20 Apr'17

  Spark processing engine more at home in cloud, Databricks CEO says

  Corporate users are becoming more open to deploying big data systems with Apache Spark in the cloud, Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi says in a Q&A on the open source processing platform.

• March 31, 2017 31 Mar'17

  AWS data lake pumps up Beachbody's analytics architecture

  Fitness company Beachbody set up a data lake system in the AWS cloud to support big data analytics applications after deciding that an on-premises deployment would be too complicated.

• December 02, 2016 02 Dec'16

  Amazon ushers in pay-by-query pricing with Athena data engine

  Amazon's Athena data engine brings interactive SQL queries to S3 data sets and lets users pay as they go. It's based on an open source framework called Presto that Teradata and others also employ.

• September 30, 2016 30 Sep'16

  Vendors move to make Hadoop cloud deployments simpler, less costly

  Users increasingly are eyeing the cloud for big data management and analytics applications, and IT vendors are moving to ease the process -- and the price -- of running Hadoop in the cloud.

• August 30, 2016 30 Aug'16

  Snowflake cloud data warehouse targets gaps big clouds overlook

  Cloud data warehouse offerings from smaller vendors seek to address functionality gaps that bigger players may miss. Newcomer Snowflake Computing targets concurrent queries, for example.

• June 24, 2016 24 Jun'16

  DataStax gets graph DB and Titan gets rewrite

  DataStax Enterprise 5.0 couples a Cassandra column-family data store with a rewritten version of the open source Titan graph database. The goal is fast analytics closely tied to fast transactions.

• March 16, 2016 16 Mar'16

  Social media startup uses NoSQL Redis Cloud to 'scale to infinity'

  Because of growing data demands, and the need to nimbly scale up and down, a startup social networking platform chose a Redis Labs NoSQL database management system running on AWS.

• August 31, 2015 31 Aug'15

  IBM pushes MPP engine to boost cloud database services line

  IBM has added massively parallel processing and R language support to its dashDB software -- important steps for a data warehouse database tailored for distributed cloud computing.

• November 14, 2014 14 Nov'14

  Startup Cazena talks up big data in the cloud at AWS re:Invent

  Cazena, a stealth-mode startup founded by former Netezza executives, is looking to solve the pain points that many enterprises have with managing and analyzing big data in the cloud.

• February 26, 2014 26 Feb'14

  Market data firm eXelate opts for Aerospike in-memory store

  A digital marketer finds an Aerospike in-memory store can drive near-real-time marketing decisions; and a look at cloud data and new big data measures.

• June 17, 2013 17 Jun'13

  Amazon Redshift generates buzz among Fortune 1000

  Amazon's new cloud-based data warehouse service is making a big impression on companies large and small, despite initial warnings from industry analysts.

• January 17, 2013 17 Jan'13

  NuoDB cloud data management set to make SQL 'of the cloud'

  NuoDB's software said to bring elastic scaling of cloud computing to the SQL database. The goal is to add servers for transactional jobs as needed.

• December 07, 2012 07 Dec'12

  Amazon set to upend status quo with Redshift data warehouse in the cloud

  Fast-moving Amazon.com will try to upend the conventional data warehouse software market with a low-cost, cloud-based warehousing service.