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• March 24, 2022 24 Mar'22

  DataStax Astra DB integrates real-time data streaming

  The database-as-a-service vendor advanced the change data capture capabilities of its cloud database with technology from its Apache Pulsar-based streaming service.

• March 24, 2022 24 Mar'22

  PlanetScale eases serverless database schema migration

  The database-as-a-service platform vendor looks to make it easier for developers to build data-driven applications and revert schema changes when needed.

• March 22, 2022 22 Mar'22

  StarTree brings Apache Pinot real-time database to the cloud

  The open source Apache Pinot OLAP data store is set to become easier to deploy, manage and operate in the cloud with improved data ingestion and data observability capabilities.

• March 17, 2022 17 Mar'22

  Snowflake brings data cloud to healthcare and life sciences

  Snowflake is continuing to build out its industry vertical platform offerings, helping users in different market segments collect, share and analyze data.

• March 17, 2022 17 Mar'22

  Jitsuin rebrands as RKVST for blockchain data assurance

  The RKVST platform supports multiple types of blockchain data applications, including secured SBOM data sharing for cybersecurity.

• March 16, 2022 16 Mar'22

  Oracle Multi-VM Autonomous Database lands on Exadata systems

  The tech giant now enables users of the Exadata Cloud at Customer service to run multiple types of the vendor's fully managed and unmanaged databases on the same hardware.

• March 15, 2022 15 Mar'22

  Redis launches JSON database capabilities with RedisJSON 2.0

  The data platform vendor is growing beyond its data caching roots to support more data types and full database capabilities that integrate with RediSearch indexing technology.

• March 14, 2022 14 Mar'22

  Fauna brings real-time streaming to serverless database

  The ability to directly subscribe to real-time updates is the latest feature for the Fauna database that can help developers quickly bring data to applications.

• March 11, 2022 11 Mar'22

  Instaclustr to support Karapace open source schema registry

  Instaclustr is joining rival Aiven in an effort to support an open source technology that brings REST proxy and schema technology to Kafka event streaming.

• March 09, 2022 09 Mar'22

  Databricks extends data lakehouse platform to healthcare

  Healthcare data exists in widely varying formats. Getting it into a data lake where it can be used for analytics and machine learning is a challenge Databricks is looking to meet.

• March 08, 2022 08 Mar'22

  DataStax scales K8ssandra for cloud-native Cassandra

  The real-time data vendor is out with a new release of its K8ssandra Kubernetes operator that enables organizations to deploy, configure and run the Apache Cassandra database.

• March 04, 2022 04 Mar'22

  Directus brings Open Data Platform technology to the cloud

  The vendor's new managed cloud service is designed to enable organizations to connect applications, business intelligence and websites to data sources and databases.

• March 02, 2022 02 Mar'22

  Dremio opens up data lakehouse with new engine

  The data lakehouse vendor is expanding its cloud platform with a new SQL query engine and data metastore for data lakes that builds on top of the Apache Iceberg table format.

• March 02, 2022 02 Mar'22

  Anomalo Pulse dashboard aims for data quality insights

  The startup is enhancing its platform by providing users with a new dashboard that brings visibility into the state of data used for data analytics and business intelligence.

• March 01, 2022 01 Mar'22

  Imply Polaris brings Apache Druid database to the cloud

  Imply's new Polaris cloud database services builds on the open source Druid technology, with integrated data ingestion capabilities and a new multi-stage query engine.

• February 28, 2022 28 Feb'22

  DBT Labs raises expectations for data transformation

  DBT Labs co-founder and CEO Tristan Handy outlines his view on the modern data stack, how the vendor's technology powers data pipelines and why he raised money now.

• February 25, 2022 25 Feb'22

  SentinelOne reboots Scalyr as enterprise data platform

  The cybersecurity vendor launches DataSet as a separate technology service from its core cybersecurity platform to help organizations manage and query large volumes of data.

• February 24, 2022 24 Feb'22

  Ahana aims to improve Presto data lake security in the cloud

  Data startup Ahana has updated its Presto cloud platform with integrated governance and control capabilities for data lake deployments.

• February 24, 2022 24 Feb'22

  MetLife improves efficiency with Tibco Data Virtualization

  The insurance giant's investment management division has reduced its data integration process from weeks to hours since adopting the analytics vendor's technology in 2017.

• February 23, 2022 23 Feb'22

  Couchbase Mobile 3 brings NoSQL database to the edge

  The vendor looks to integrate an edge-to-cloud database architecture with a new release that provides developers with tools to manage distributed database deployments.

• February 23, 2022 23 Feb'22

  Voltron Data takes aim at data management with Apache Arrow

  CEO and co-founder Josh Patterson outlines the promise of the new language-agnostic data analytics development framework and why the vendor is raising big money to support it.

• February 17, 2022 17 Feb'22

  Hyperledger expands open source blockchain efforts

  The CTO of a major blockchain group provides insight into the growing effort to build open source blockchain technologies for enterprises, though challenges remain.

• February 16, 2022 16 Feb'22

  ArangoDB 3.9 scales graph database operations

  The open source graph database vendor released a new version of its platform with new features to enable users to better deal with the challenges of growing data workloads.

• February 15, 2022 15 Feb'22

  InfluxData expands time series database capabilities

  The open source-based InfluxDB platform is adding capabilities to better handle data coming from industrial sensors and devices that enable organizations to optimize operations.

• February 14, 2022 14 Feb'22

  Elastic 8.0 aims to enhance search relevance

  Elastic is updating its flagship platform with a major release that adds enhanced vector search and natural language processing capabilities to improve data query results.

• February 10, 2022 10 Feb'22

  Data quality startup Superconductive raises $40M

  The vendor behind the open source Great Expectations data quality technology is looking to build a commercial cloud service to help data professionals accurately profile data.

• February 10, 2022 10 Feb'22

  Oracle Autonomous cloud database gains MongoDB API support

  The tech giant continues to build out its multimodel database capabilities with the general availability of a new API for widely used MongoDB applications.

• February 10, 2022 10 Feb'22

  ScyllaDB 5.0 set to advance NoSQL database capabilities

  At Scylla Summit 2022, the open source NoSQL database vendor introduced upcoming services including a DBaaS as well as a new platform release, and a user outlined its application.

• February 09, 2022 09 Feb'22

  Reverse ETL vendor Census raises $60M

  Census raises new money as the vendor ramps up its operations to help organizations get data from data warehouses to power large-scale business applications.

• February 09, 2022 09 Feb'22

  Starburst brings in $250M to advance data mesh aspirations

  The vendor continues on its path toward an initial public offering, as demand for its open source Trino-based data lake query engine platform grows.

• February 07, 2022 07 Feb'22

  Analytics database vendor Exasol launches DBaaS on AWS

  The OLAP database vendor now has a new cloud service model that provides users with a managed instance for data analysis, business intelligence and machine learning.

• February 02, 2022 02 Feb'22

  Onehouse emerges with managed Apache Hudi data lake service

  One of the original creators of the Hudi project at Uber has launched a new company set to bring a managed service to market to operationalize cloud data lakes.

• February 01, 2022 01 Feb'22

  Open source database vendor MariaDB set for IPO

  As cloud database-as-a-service demand grows, the open source-based relational database vendor is looking to go public, a decade after it was first forked from the MySQL database.

• January 27, 2022 27 Jan'22

  Google scales up Cloud Bigtable NoSQL database

  Automated scalability is a key theme for the latest set of update features that Google is landing in its cloud managed NoSQL database service, providing users with more capacity.

• January 27, 2022 27 Jan'22

  Confluent Kafka connects apps on new Dish 5G network

  Streaming data is at the foundation of a new smart 5G service from Dish Network, where enterprises build applications that directly benefit and customize the network platform.

• January 26, 2022 26 Jan'22

  Apache Kafka 3.1 opens up data streaming for analytics

  The latest release of open source Kafka data streaming technology brings a series of new features that provide users with usability improvements for real-time data queries.

• January 25, 2022 25 Jan'22

  Dremio raises $160M for cloud data lake platform technology

  The vendor is raising new money as demand for cloud data platform technology continues to grow as enterprises look to improve business intelligence and data analytics.

• January 25, 2022 25 Jan'22

  Data access key to Regeneron's innovation efforts

  After developing a COVID-19 treatment in mere months, Regeneron adopted a data catalog and is developing a data governance framework to speed up its drug development pipeline.

• January 21, 2022 21 Jan'22

  Apache Hop data orchestration hits open source milestone

  The open source technology moves beyond its roots to enable a full data platform as data moves from one source to another for operations, business intelligence and analytics.

• January 21, 2022 21 Jan'22

  MongoDB 5.2 database improves time series capabilities

  The vendor is improving on capabilities introduced in MongoDB 5.0 with an update that continues the company's push to support operational and analytics workloads.

• January 20, 2022 20 Jan'22

  Hudi powering data lake efforts at Walmart and Disney+ Hotstar

  An open source cloud data lake platform is finding adoption at large organizations including Uber, Walmart and Disney+ Hotstar as the demands of data scale grow.

• January 20, 2022 20 Jan'22

  Coalesce launches with data transformation platform

  The CEO and co-founder of Coalesce gives insight into the startup's mission and the challenges organizations face with transforming data so that it's useful for data analysts.

• January 19, 2022 19 Jan'22

  Confluent Cloud Q1 2022 update boosts event data streaming

  The event streaming vendor is expanding its cloud platform with schema linking, data warehouse connectors and a load metrics API to improve scale and performance.

• January 18, 2022 18 Jan'22

  Fivetran updates data integration platform with dbt Core

  With automated data transformations and new data lineage visualization graphs, Fivetran is looking to make building data pipelines easier for data users.

• January 13, 2022 13 Jan'22

  Observable raises $35.6M for data collaboration platform

  After spending 15 years at Google, Melody Meckfessel brought at least one key lesson to her data visualization startup Observable: 'no grumpy developers.'

• January 10, 2022 10 Jan'22

  Anomalo brings data quality platform to Snowflake

  Elliot Shmukler, co-founder and CEO of Anomalo, details how he was inspired to build his data startup after a critical data failure while he was working at Instacart.

• January 05, 2022 05 Jan'22

  Western Union looks to improve data quality with Talend

  Thomas Mazzaferro, chief data officer at Western Union, outlines the financial services company's approach to cloud data migration and how Talend fits into the data architecture.

• December 17, 2021 17 Dec'21

  Data forecast for 2022: Data quality and cloud convergence

  Expect data quality to be a top area of investment and activity next year as the need to trust data for operations, insight and machine learning will only continue to grow.

• December 16, 2021 16 Dec'21

  Data management trends in 2021: More money, more cloud

  In 2021, interest in the cloud data lakehouse model helped to propel multiple vendors forward as new serverless database-as-a-service systems emerged as well.

• December 16, 2021 16 Dec'21

  Cockroach Labs raises $278M for distributed SQL database

  The cloud database vendor has appealed to enterprises with its data capabilities and continues to attract investors as the market opportunity expands.

• December 13, 2021 13 Dec'21

  SnapLogic raises $165M to fund AI data integration

  The data integration vendor's fundraising success shows the growth the iPaaS and RPA markets have seen in recent years, with a steady pace of investment and acquisitions.

• December 10, 2021 10 Dec'21

  Vendia expands serverless blockchain data sharing platform

  The Vendia Share service gets new features that enable more database-type capabilities, alongside smart contracts to support complex business rules.

• December 09, 2021 09 Dec'21

  Why Criteo chose Aerospike real-time database

  Criteo is in the process of migrating to Aerospike Database to reduce the number of servers it needs to power its global advertising marketplace from 5,000 to 600.

• December 08, 2021 08 Dec'21

  Calyptia spurs observability data with Fluent Bit Enterprise

  Collecting first-mile log data that is as close to the source as possible is the open source startup's goal as it builds out new commercial services.

• December 06, 2021 06 Dec'21

  LogDNA raises $50M for observability data

  The LogDNA CEO discusses challenges and the need for organizations to collect and analyze log data to enable operations, DevOps and security applications.

• December 03, 2021 03 Dec'21

  AWS cloud database users detail applications

  AWS has more than one database to choose from, as the cloud provider aims to provide users like eHealth and HBO Max with technologies to meet different use cases.

• December 01, 2021 01 Dec'21

  AWS aims to ease cloud database management and migration

  The tech giant is looking to help its users to better migrate to, manage and operate cloud databases with a series of new data management product releases and updates.

• November 30, 2021 30 Nov'21

  AWS Lake Formation advances cloud data lake control

  AWS added new features to its cloud data lake service, featuring Governed Tables to manage consistency of data and row-level access control for security.

• November 23, 2021 23 Nov'21

  American Airlines flies its data warehouse to the cloud

  The pandemic hit American Airlines hard, but its management took an optimistic view, seeing at as an opportunity to use data more effectively to improve operations.

• November 19, 2021 19 Nov'21

  LogicMonitor introduces centralized log management platform

  The data observability platform vendor's new platform enables enterprises to use AIOps and automation to find anomalies with their IT system, report them and head off widespread problems.

• November 19, 2021 19 Nov'21

  Starburst Enterprise brings Apache Iceberg to data lakehouse

  A new Starburst Enterprise release brings in new capabilities to help organizations use the Trino SQL query engine to analyze data stored on premises and in the cloud.

• November 17, 2021 17 Nov'21

  Hightouch raises $40M for reverse ETL data platform

  Co-founder Kashish Gupta provides insight into the data challenges that led Hightouch to develop a new approach to getting data out of data warehouses and into operational tools.

• November 16, 2021 16 Nov'21

  CockroachDB update scales distributed SQL database

  The latest database release from Cockroach Labs focuses on providing optimized capabilities for large deployments that can handle up to a petabyte of data.

• October 12, 2021 12 Oct'21

  Google expands Cloud Spanner database with PostgreSQL

  A year after it was first introduced, Google's BigQuery Omni multi-cloud data platform is now generally available as Google continues to push its data agenda in the cloud.

• October 07, 2021 07 Oct'21

  How DataOps can improve healthcare outcomes

  DataOps is more than just DevOps for data. It's a set of data orchestration, operations and management tools and principles that help organizations improve data pipelines.

• October 06, 2021 06 Oct'21

  ArangoDB advances graph database fortunes with new funding

  Claudius Weinberger, co-founder and CEO of ArangoDB, discusses why the vendor is raising money to meet the growing demand for graph database technology.

• September 30, 2021 30 Sep'21

  Ascend extends flex-code data connectors

  The data platform vendor looks to enable organizations to more easily read and write data from different data sources with a new low-code connector framework.

• September 30, 2021 30 Sep'21

  PostgreSQL 14 improves open source database performance

  The open source database has extended its JSON unstructured data support and enhanced its stored procedures capabilities to give users more database power.

• September 28, 2021 28 Sep'21

  HPE intros GreenLake data lakehouse fabric for analytics

  HPE taps multiple open source technologies, including Kubernetes, Apache Spark and Delta Lake, for developing new data fabric services on its GreenLake cloud platform.

• September 21, 2021 21 Sep'21

  Nutanix boosts data management services in the cloud

  Nutanix is aiming to make it easier to manage, deploy and protect data and databases across hybrid and multi-cloud environments with a series of product updates.

• September 15, 2021 15 Sep'21

  Kafka streaming data gets governance from Confluent

  Apache Kafka event streaming from Confluent helps online grocery provider Instacart deliver milk to customers when they need it, by helping to power real-time inventory updates.

• September 15, 2021 15 Sep'21

  StreamNative raises $23M for Apache Pulsar data streaming

  Leading vendor behind the open source event streaming project raised new funds to help build out a cloud platform for event data and message streaming.

• September 14, 2021 14 Sep'21

  Snowflake aims at financial services with data cloud

  Snowflake launches its new Data Cloud offering as it continues to expand the range of applications and capabilities for its customers, including Western Union and Capital One.

• September 14, 2021 14 Sep'21

  Alation boosts platform with new data governance application

  The new Alation service provides a series of capabilities to improve governance, including a centralized dashboard and data steward workbench for managing workflow.

• September 13, 2021 13 Sep'21

  Materialize brings streaming SQL database to the cloud

  To date, streaming database startup Materialize has not had a managed cloud service -- but that's changing, with a preview of the company's cloud DBaaS platform.

• September 09, 2021 09 Sep'21

  How VMware's CDO views data management

  The chief data officer of the virtualization vendor details her views on the increasing challenges of dealing with growing volumes of data and the critical importance of data governance.

• August 31, 2021 31 Aug'21

  Databricks raises $1.6B more to boost data lakehouse

  Investors are super confident in the growth potential for cloud data management and analytics as the impact of the Snowflake IPO continues to ripple through the industry.

• August 31, 2021 31 Aug'21

  Apache Drill improves big data SQL query engine

  Open source SQL query engine gets new release that will expand the number of data sources that can be queried, including Elasticsearch, Splunk and Apache Cassandra.

• August 27, 2021 27 Aug'21

  Rockset advances real-time streaming data SQL queries

  Rockset previews new features in its cloud database platform to help organizations more easily use real-time data to support data analytics and business intelligence.

• August 25, 2021 25 Aug'21

  Cribl brings in $200M to advance data lake observability

  Cribl looks to grow its LogStream platform capabilities with new funding that will help the vendor grow operations and advance its data lake visibility technology.

• August 20, 2021 20 Aug'21

  With Amazon MemoryDB, AWS takes aim at Redis in the cloud

  The tech giant is offering its users a new managed Redis-compatible in-memory database platform that will compete against services from Redis, Google and Microsoft.

• August 19, 2021 19 Aug'21

  Hitachi Vantara expands Lumada DataOps suite

  Hitachi Vantara integrated its data management technologies into a new product suite intended to help organizations with data operations. Data governance is coming next.

• August 17, 2021 17 Aug'21

  Apollo GraphQL raises $130M to enable graph layer

  The CEO and co-founder of a graph layer vendor provides insight into the growing need for the graph layer as a data technology to help connect the front end to the back end.

• August 17, 2021 17 Aug'21

  Confluent builds out Kafka event streaming platform

  Confluent aims to make it easier for users to query data in motion coming from Apache Kafka, with the ksqlDB pull query capability in its cloud platform update.

• August 17, 2021 17 Aug'21

  Monte Carlo raises $60M to advance data observability

  Vendor Monte Carlo brought in new funding as it builds out new capabilities to bring more data trust and visibility to both data warehouses and data lakes.

• August 16, 2021 16 Aug'21

  MongoDB CTO's view of data challenges

  The database vendor CTO discusses cloud migration, organizational structure and collaboration, go-to-market challenges organizations face, and the value of a chief data officer.

• August 11, 2021 11 Aug'21

  Talend updates data fabric with more collaboration

  With its summer 2021 update, data integration vendor Talend boosted its data sharing and integration features to help business users share trusted data sources.

• August 10, 2021 10 Aug'21

  Kyligence 4.5 adds Clickhouse to Intelligent Data Cloud

  The open source Clickhouse OLAP database joins the Apache Kylin analytical data warehouse in a new update that provides a platform for different types of data queries.

• August 10, 2021 10 Aug'21

  Oracle puts MySQL HeatWave on Autopilot

  Oracle updated its MySQL database cloud service with new capabilities designed to automate and optimize database operations and query execution.

• August 06, 2021 06 Aug'21

  Why City Furniture embraced data virtualization

  With data coming from on-premises and cloud sources and spanning legacy systems, databases and even flat files, City Furniture faced problems bringing all its data together.

• August 04, 2021 04 Aug'21

  Varada scales cloud data platform with new release

  Varada realized it needed more flexibility to help its users scale its data lake query platform, so it added elasticity capabilities to help meet that demand.

• August 03, 2021 03 Aug'21

  Ahana raises $20M for Presto cloud data lake query tech

  Ahana looks to grow the market for its open source-based cloud data query engine as the volume of stored data that organizations want to analyze continues to expand.

• July 30, 2021 30 Jul'21

  Couchbase NoSQL database adds relational capabilities

  With its latest update, Couchbase introduced features that bring the equivalent of tables and schema to its database to reduce friction for those moving from a relational database.

• July 28, 2021 28 Jul'21

  Trifacta moves beyond data wrangling to DataOps

  'Data wrangling' is a term that Trifacta assigns to data preparation, but there is more than that to the concept as part of the vendor's Data Engineering Cloud platform.

• July 27, 2021 27 Jul'21

  Apache Cassandra 4.0 advances open source database

  Among the new features in the open source Cassandra database update are virtual tables that help operators improve performance and optimize operations.

• July 22, 2021 22 Jul'21

  Couchbase IPO brings NoSQL database to the stock market

  Couchbase makes a move into the public markets with a Nasdaq listing as it continues to develop its NoSQL database technology that runs on premises and in the cloud.

• July 22, 2021 22 Jul'21

  Observable expands enterprise data visualization platform

  Observable expanded its platform for larger organizations to collaborate on data projects that make information more intuitive to understand and use.

• July 20, 2021 20 Jul'21

  Monte Carlo Incident IQ looks to improve data observability

  Various problems can cause data pipelines to break or contain inaccurate information. Monte Carlo aims to help its users figure out the root cause and fix it.

• July 14, 2021 14 Jul'21

  Hazelcast Platform integrates data grid and event streaming

  Hazelcast's new technology will provide a unified SQL query engine on a single cluster that will allow users to query both real-time data and data at rest.

• July 14, 2021 14 Jul'21

  Informatica brings data governance and data catalog to cloud

  Informatica moves more of its on-premises capabilities into the cloud as it aims to provide an integrated data platform for multiple use cases, including analytics and AI.