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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.
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- 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.
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- 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.