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• June 18, 2018 18 Jun'18

  Hortonworks cloud options grow via Google, Microsoft, IBM

  Hortonworks now supports Google Cloud Storage and has also broadened cloud deals with Microsoft and IBM, aiming to increase cloud uses of its big data platform.

• March 21, 2018 21 Mar'18

  Kubernetes gains momentum in big data implementation process

  Big data vendors and users are looking to Kubernetes-managed containers to help accelerate deployments and enable more flexible use of computing resources.

• March 15, 2018 15 Mar'18

  Streaming tool from StreamSets eyes data in motion for GDPR

  StreamSets software for inspecting big data brings governance to data in motion. Such capabilities may find more use as the European Union's GDPR deadline looms.

• February 22, 2018 22 Feb'18

  Google TPUs open up on cloud; LinkedIn intros Hadoop Dynamometer

  In big data news, we find Google TPUs, or Tensor Processing Units, offered as a cloud service, while LinkedIn is open sourcing a Hadoop test simulator called Dynamometer.

• February 16, 2018 16 Feb'18

  MongoDB 4.0 takes ACID transactions to multi-document level

  MongoDB is taking a deeper step into SQL-style processing waters with a 4.0 update that brings increased support for ACID-compliant transactions to its NoSQL database.

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• January 03, 2018 03 Jan'18

  Apache Hadoop 3.0 goes GA, adds hooks for cloud and GPUs

  Is this the post-Hadoop era? Not in the eyes of Hadoop 3.0 backers, who see the latest update to the big data framework succeeding in machine learning applications and cloud systems.

• 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.

• December 01, 2017 01 Dec'17

  Apache Impala gets top-level status as open source Hadoop tool

  Born at Cloudera, the MPP query engine known as Apache Impala has become a top-level open source project. It's one of various tools bringing SQL-style interactivity to big data analytics.

• 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.

• September 28, 2017 28 Sep'17

  MapR-DB uses NoSQL to drive real-time analytics

  The Strata conference in New York saw big data platform vendor MapR Technologies update MapR-DB, its NoSQL database engine, to better perform in real-time analytics applications.

• September 26, 2017 26 Sep'17

  Bank sees ETL processes evolve from IT to front-line users

  ETL jobs -- once the sole province of IT -- take on a new form as data wrangling and self-service gain greater traction with business users of analytics.

• September 06, 2017 06 Sep'17

  Energy partnership drills down on data quality issues

  Breitburn Energy Partners employed data quality tools to address the business pain of bad data, using the software to give end users the means to fix data quality issues themselves.

• August 31, 2017 31 Aug'17

  Confluent's Kafka data-streaming framework gets 'SQL-ized'

  SQL on Hadoop arrived -- so did SQL on Spark. Now, SQL on Kafka is emerging to provide a different way to look at Kafka data as it streams through the enterprise.

• August 30, 2017 30 Aug'17

  Big data vendors, users see Hadoop stack from different sides

  In this Talking Data podcast, TechTarget editors discuss Hadoop's future, IBM's decision to resell the Hortonworks distribution of the open source technology and other big data issues.