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- July 13, 2021
13 Jul'21
MongoDB 5.0 expands open source document database operations
At the MongoDB.live 2021 virtual conference, the vendor unveiled its next-generation database platform with more time-series data support and live re-sharding capabilities.
- July 09, 2021
09 Jul'21
Rockset adds MySQL connector to real-time indexing database
Rockset made a set of connectors for MySQL and PostgreSQL generally available. The tools enable real-time data indexing for analytics on transactional data.
- July 08, 2021
08 Jul'21
Silk advances cloud data migration with $55M funding round
Silk has developed a virtualized data system that abstracts cloud resources, helping organizations port their on-premises databases to the cloud.
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- July 07, 2021
07 Jul'21
Meltano spins out from GitLab to advance DataOps platform
Douwe Maan, founder and CEO of Meltano, outlines the new data startup's approach as it raises seed funding to advance an open source ELT system.
- June 25, 2021
25 Jun'21
Fivetran looks to Teleport Data for database replication
Fivetran is expanding its data integration capabilities with data validation technology that takes a different approach than change data capture for database replication.
- June 24, 2021
24 Jun'21
Firebolt raises $127M to fuel cloud data warehouse efforts
Firebolt looks to grow in the cloud data warehouse market with a proprietary file format and a focus on enabling developers to build data-driven apps on top of cloud data lakes.
- June 24, 2021
24 Jun'21
Confluent goes IPO as Kafka event streaming goes mainstream
The lead commercial vendor behind the open source Apache Kafka event streaming platform goes public as the market opportunity for data in motion grows.
- June 23, 2021
23 Jun'21
SingleStore updates unified database platform
The database vendor formerly known as MemSQL is out with a major update that adds new storage and multicolumn key support functionality to its unified database platform.
- June 23, 2021
23 Jun'21
PlanetScale CEO discusses $30M funding for cloud database
The CEO and co-founder of PlanetScale, Jiten Vaidya, outlines the challenges and opportunities for his firm's open source distributed SQL cloud database.
- June 17, 2021
17 Jun'21
Neo4j raises $325M in funding to advance graph database
Emil Eifrem, CEO and co-founder of Neo4j, discusses how the graph database vendor is seeing growing demand for its technology, with applications for data science and supply chain.
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- June 16, 2021
16 Jun'21
Healthcare device maker boosts production with data quality
One of the world's biggest ventilator manufacturers ramped up production during the pandemic by improving its own data health to better understand and optimize operations.
- June 10, 2021
10 Jun'21
Quest updates Erwin Data Modeling and Data Intelligence
Quest is looking to build out what it calls a data empowerment platform with the help of data modeling and other technology from its recently acquired Erwin business unit.
- June 10, 2021
10 Jun'21
Prefect raises $32M for dataflow automation technology
Data startup Prefect is looking to grow its open source project and commercial business to help organizations manage automated data pipeline requirements.
- June 08, 2021
08 Jun'21
Snowflake expands cloud data warehouse platform to Snowpark
Snowflake customer Instacart, the online grocery giant, uses the Snowpark cloud data warehouse to list all its services in a data catalog to improve the user experience.
- June 04, 2021
04 Jun'21
Dremio accelerates data lake operations with Dart Initiative
The cloud data lake engine platform vendor looks to accelerate queries with its Dart Initiative, which uses a query cache plan to optimize SQL queries against data lakes.
- June 03, 2021
03 Jun'21
Q&A: Inside data catalog vendor Alation's $110M in funding
Alation co-founder and CEO Satyen Sangani shares why his company is raising money, where the technology is headed, and challenges facing data intelligence and data catalog technology.
- June 03, 2021
03 Jun'21
Cribl aims to ease data observability with LogStream update
LogStream 3.0 brings new configuration capabilities to Cribl's pipeline technology that can help organizations optimize log and metrics data.
- June 01, 2021
01 Jun'21
After sluggish revenues, Cloudera goes private in $5.3B deal
Big data vendor Cloudera is looking to expand its SaaS capabilities by exiting the public markets and acquiring startups Cazena and Datacoral to bring new self-service features.
- May 27, 2021
27 May'21
Google Datastream advances change data capture in the cloud
At Google's Data Cloud Summit, a new service released in preview to enable users to capture data from other sources to bring into Google's cloud data and analytics services.
- May 26, 2021
26 May'21
Databricks opens up data lakes for data sharing
At its virtual Data + AI Summit, the AI vendor detailed new capabilities to make information stored in cloud data lakes more accessible and secure.
- May 26, 2021
26 May'21
Microsoft builds distributed ledger for Azure SQL database
The tech giant debuted new database services, including more security for Azure Database for PostgreSQL and MySQL, and a distributed ledger for Azure SQL.
- May 21, 2021
21 May'21
Superconductive raises $21M for open source data quality
The open source Great Expectations project is becoming increasingly popular, as the commercial vendor seeks to build out a cloud service to expand the project's reach.
- May 20, 2021
20 May'21
CockroachDB version 21.1 simplifies distributed SQL database
Cockroach Labs updated its database platform with enhanced capabilities giving database administrators more control over where and how data is distributed around the world.
- May 19, 2021
19 May'21
Syncari raises $17.3M for automated cloud data sync
Data synchronization vendor is looking to solve the challenge of keeping data updated and automated across multiple cloud systems in a unified data model.
- May 18, 2021
18 May'21
PlanetScale launches new database-as-a-service platform
The main vendor behind the open source Vitess distributed SQL cloud platform for MySQL is out with a new cloud platform that will integrate well with developer-based workflows.
- May 13, 2021
13 May'21
ChaosSearch brings SQL to cloud data lake platform
The cloud data lake engine provider expands beyond log search, with a multi-model API that now includes SQL query execution for analytics and BI.
- May 12, 2021
12 May'21
Kafka users detail real-time data benefits
Confluent introduces a series of new real-time data efforts as users of the open source data-streaming technology outline real-world deployment applications.
- May 11, 2021
11 May'21
K2View updates DataOps platform with data fabric automation
A data operations platform vendor is bringing new capabilities to its data platform that will help organizations more easily integrate and automate the movement of data.
- 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.