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- January 15, 2020
15 Jan'20
New Oracle Enterprise Manager release advances hybrid cloud
Oracle updates its Enterprise Manager platform to version 13.4, bringing new hybrid management capabilities to database users across on-premises and cloud deployments.
- January 14, 2020
14 Jan'20
Former Hortonworks leader named new Cloudera CEO
Cloudera finds a new leader, pulling the former CEO of Hortonworks back into the fold to help set the direction for the big data Hadoop vendor as it moves forward in 2020.
- January 13, 2020
13 Jan'20
Boomi acquisition of Unifi Software nets data management
Dell Boomi expands its data integration software portfolio by acquiring Unifi Software, providing data preparation and data catalog capabilities.
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- January 10, 2020
10 Jan'20
ArangoDB 3.6 accelerates performance of multi-model database
New release of multi-model database platform from ArangoDB introduces OneShard feature, along with other query optimization capabilities to help improve overall performance.
- January 07, 2020
07 Jan'20
NuoDB set to improve distributed SQL performance
Ariff Kassam, CTO of distributed SQL database vendor NuoDB, outlines how his company has embraced cloud native and hints about what's to come in the year ahead.
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- December 20, 2019
20 Dec'19
SolarWinds advances cloud native database monitoring
SolarWinds grows its product portfolio with the acquisition of cloud native database monitoring vendor VividCortex, in a bid to help organizations deal with the challenges of cloud.
- December 18, 2019
18 Dec'19
Q&A: The challenges of cloud-native data management
Cloud native data management isn't usually the first thing on anyone's mind, acknowledges Portworx co-founder and CTO Goutham Rao -- but find out how it's become part of organizations' journey.
- December 13, 2019
13 Dec'19
Amazon Managed Apache Cassandra Service stokes competition
Vendors in the open source Cassandra NoSQL database market voice their concerns about AWS' entry into the field, as the cloud giant looks to expand its database portfolio.
- December 11, 2019
11 Dec'19
Aerospike 4.8 advances database persistent memory support
Aerospike 4.8 adds full support for Intel's Optane persistent memory, enabling the NoSQL database to run both the index and data in memory for better overall performance.
- 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.
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- 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.
- November 26, 2019
26 Nov'19
Oracle looks to grow multi-model database features
Decade after decade, Oracle continues to be relevant in the database market as it pivots to include an expanding list of capabilities to serve users, notably cloud.
- November 21, 2019
21 Nov'19
Confluent introduces ksqlDB event streaming database
Getting streaming data optimized to work inside of a database often involves disparate vendors and technologies, a challenge that Confluent aims to help fix.
- November 19, 2019
19 Nov'19
CockroachDB 19.2 improves distributed database performance
New release of CockroachDB cloud-native distributed database platform helps to reduce latency; it also gets enhanced data backup capabilities.
- November 18, 2019
18 Nov'19
Redis Labs eases database management with RedisInsight
Based on the open source RDBTools project, Redis Labs' new tool gives database administrators a stable graphical user interface for database management.
- November 13, 2019
13 Nov'19
With Vitess 4.0, database vendor matures cloud-native platform
Scaling a MySQL database in the cloud is not easy, but the open source Vitess project manages the project at scale for cloud-native Kubernetes deployments.
- November 08, 2019
08 Nov'19
ScyllaDB set to improve NoSQL database performance
ScyllaDB has been helpful for big organizations such as Comcast, which was able to trim from nearly 1,000 database nodes to 78 ScyllaDB nodes and now has more room to grow.
- November 06, 2019
06 Nov'19
Translytical data platforms provide options to unify databases
Forrester identifies top vendors in the translytical database category and common elements that help make the unified database model well adapted for multiple use cases.
- November 05, 2019
05 Nov'19
Okera shines Spotlight on data lake insights
Data stored in a data lake can be an important asset, but understanding how the data is being used, or in some cases not used, is another challenge altogether.
- October 31, 2019
31 Oct'19
Data silos and culture lead to data transformation challenges
Data continues to grow at a rapid rate, and users are faced with increasing complexity and challenges to make sense of it all in a way that helps improve business outcomes.
- October 24, 2019
24 Oct'19
Grafana Labs observability platform set to grow
Raj Dutt, co-founder and CEO of Grafana Labs, provides insight into what his company is doing and where it's headed, now that it has raised new money and is seeing new use cases for its data observability technology.
- October 24, 2019
24 Oct'19
Splunk advances Data-to-Everything initiative
Splunk execs outline the vendor's direction and new capabilities at its annual user conference, including the general availability of Data Fabric Search and Data Stream Processor.
- October 21, 2019
21 Oct'19
Open source database use is a growing trend
Study shows that more users are using open source software for data management, with most organizations using more than one technology to help meet different needs.
- October 18, 2019
18 Oct'19
Databricks contributes Delta Lake to the Linux Foundation
Databricks has found a new home at the Linux Foundation for its open source Delta Lake data lake project, in a bid to help grow a broader community and accelerate adoption.
- October 17, 2019
17 Oct'19
Apache Rya matures open source triple store database
Open source triple store database technology used by the U.S. Navy moves forward as a stable, mature project at the Apache Software Foundation.
- October 14, 2019
14 Oct'19
PostgreSQL 12 boosts open source database performance
Widely used open source PostgreSQL database platform gets a major update providing users with new SQL query capabilities for JSON and improved performance.
- October 08, 2019
08 Oct'19
MemSQL 7.0 set to advance both row and column data stores
As MemSQL pushes into the cloud with its Helios service, the vendor is also pushing the boundaries of traditional row and column data stores with its SingleStore technology approach.
- October 08, 2019
08 Oct'19
Couchbase Server 6.5 improves NoSQL database queries
Now available in beta, the Couchbase Server 6.5 update brings distributed ACID transactions and query optimizations to the open source NoSQL database platform.
- October 02, 2019
02 Oct'19
Talend offers automated migration to cloud data warehouse
The new capability is supported by BladeBridge's converter technology and includes self-service tools for data preparation and data integration, among other features.
- October 01, 2019
01 Oct'19
Immuta introduces new features to Automated Data Governance
The new updates also bring about native Hadoop distributed file system workspaces within Immuta and more ways to integrate Immuta with other applications and tools.
- 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 20, 2019
20 Sep'19
Swim DataFabric platform helps to understand edge streaming data
Swim released its new Swim DataFabric, which integrates with Microsoft Azure to help users organize and gain insights from streaming data sources.
- September 19, 2019
19 Sep'19
Dremio Data Lake Engine 4.0 accelerates query performance
Dremio issues a new platform update, defining itself as data lake engine technology that looks to help users connect and query data faster in AWS and Azure.
- September 17, 2019
17 Sep'19
InfluxDB Cloud 2.0 expands open source time series database
While the core open source InfluxDB 2.0 project is still in alpha, InfluxData has advanced its cloud service to support new features as it grows its time series database service.
- September 16, 2019
16 Sep'19
New cloud and on-premises options for Oracle Autonomous Database
Oracle introduced new cloud and on-premises deployment options for its namesake database and automated cloud service as Oracle OpenWorld 2019 got underway.
- September 16, 2019
16 Sep'19
How big tech breakup would affect the tech industry
Breaking up the tech giants would be difficult and might create initial chaos in market, help smaller competitors and potentially raise prices for enterprises.
- 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.
- September 11, 2019
11 Sep'19
Stibo Systems advances multidomain MDM system
The new Stibo Systems 9.2 update expands the MDM platform's features with Sisense business intelligence integration and machine learning capabilities.
- September 05, 2019
05 Sep'19
Cloudera Data Platform to debut, as big data fortunes waver
The interim CEO of Cloudera is cautiously optimistic about growth prospects as the big data vendor acquired Arcadia Data and planned to bolster its own cloud platform.
- September 04, 2019
04 Sep'19
Ascend releases Queryable Dataflows for building data pipelines
Ascend releases a technology preview of a capability that will enable data engineers to directly query dataflows, without the need for data to first be in a data warehouse.
- August 29, 2019
29 Aug'19
Align enterprise data architecture, governance for 'quick wins'
Data management consultant Donna Burbank outlines how effective data governance hinges on the deployment of a comprehensive enterprise data architecture.
- August 22, 2019
22 Aug'19
ArangoDB 3.5 update improves multi-model database platform
ArangoDB 3.5 accelerates its database platform with improved query performance and enhanced data security capabilities, as market demand for multi-model platforms builds.
- August 21, 2019
21 Aug'19
SnapLogic boosts its data integration technology with AI
SnapLogic's latest update for its Intelligent Integration Platform aims to make it easier for users to benefit from data integration.
- August 20, 2019
20 Aug'19
DigitalOcean Managed Databases add MySQL, Redis support
Expanding its database management system offerings, cloud computing vendor DigitalOcean added Managed Databases support for MySQL and Redis.
- August 20, 2019
20 Aug'19
Enterprise data marketplace aims to ease self-service chaos
Self-service data preparation can duplicate work and slow down analytics. One possible fix: an internal marketplace where users can 'shop' for data assets.
- 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.
- August 13, 2019
13 Aug'19
Apollo data graph brings managed federation to enterprises
The new Apollo update is intended to enable organizations to federate multiple enterprise data sets more easily and use APIs to tap into disparate data sources.
- August 08, 2019
08 Aug'19
Elastic Stack 7.3 adds new features to expand data analysis
Elastic Stack, in a new update, adds data frames capabilities to enable new forms of analysis, as well as integrating more data sources that can be searched and analyzed.
- August 06, 2019
06 Aug'19
HPE buys MapR assets to fuel AI applications
Longtime independent big data vendor MapR goes out of business, selling technology and intellectual property to HPE. The move marks the continuing decline of the Hadoop market.
- August 01, 2019
01 Aug'19
Startup Dgraph Labs growing graph database technology
Dgraph Labs looks expand its graph database platform, which offers the promise of reducing isolated data sources and speeding up queries.
- July 31, 2019
31 Jul'19
Naveego launches tool for analyzing data quality and health
Naveego Accelerator enables users to check for inaccurate data, incomplete data or improperly formatted data to prevent inconsistencies that could cost businesses money.
- July 31, 2019
31 Jul'19
NuoDB 4.0 improves cloud-native database capabilities
Support for multiple clouds, tighter integration with Kubernetes and indexing enhancements that accelerate database performance highlight the new NuoDB release.
- July 30, 2019
30 Jul'19
Hitachi Vantara updates Pentaho 8.3 to expand DataOps vision
Hitachi Vantara's new Pentaho update brings DataOps capabilities for data management to help organizations derive better data insights.
- July 26, 2019
26 Jul'19
Cloudera open source route seeks to keep big data alive
Inspired by the IBM-Red Hat model, Cloudera goes the open source route to broaden its market as demand for Hadoop weakens and the vendor takes on big competitors like AWS.
- 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.
- July 03, 2019
03 Jul'19
RavenDB Cloud automates database management
RavenDB's managed cloud database service, RavenDB Cloud, intends to automate security processes, reduce overhead and cater to businesses of all sizes.
- June 28, 2019
28 Jun'19
PostgreSQL database specialist EnterpriseDB gets new backing
EnterpriseDB is looking to push its database further with help from new financial backers. The deal sees Postgres originator Michael Stonebraker coming onboard as technical adviser.
- 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.
- June 18, 2019
18 Jun'19
MongoDB Atlas cloud service adds data lake, touts multi-cloud
MongoDB released an S3-compatible data lake its developer legions can quickly query. But, word of MongoDB Atlas use on Google's cloud shows there are clouds to sow beyond AWS.
- June 05, 2019
05 Jun'19
AtScale updates its data warehouse virtualization platform
AtScale 2019.1 comes with many new capabilities, including extended database support, increased security and advanced analytical query capabilities.
- June 04, 2019
04 Jun'19
IBM Db2 update aims to simplify use with AI
IBM's new Db2 release adds a host of AI-powered enhancements, including a range of automated error reporting capabilities and tools to more easily create AI algorithms.
- June 04, 2019
04 Jun'19
Vendor unveils Snowflake Data Exchange, Google Cloud integration
Snowflake Computing's data exchange marketplace aims to make data easily shared between users and providers, enable users to innovate and give providers an opportunity to monetize data.
- June 03, 2019
03 Jun'19
Lyftron launches universal data access platform
Lyftron launched a data access platform that uses a data hub, data insights, enterprise-wide data catalogs and lineage, and hybrid cloud management and migration to unify data.
- May 31, 2019
31 May'19
MapR's future in jeopardy, layoffs loom
It's right there in a MapR letter to California's labor department: A leader in the Hadoop market is desperately seeking funding after poor sales of its promising data platform.
- May 20, 2019
20 May'19
Lumina launches Radiance, a data risk management platform
In an effort to prevent data loss, Lumina launched Radiance, a SaaS data risk management platform. It collects and analyzes data to help prevent risks and threats.
- 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.
- May 01, 2019
01 May'19
Snowflake CEO Bob Muglia replaced by former ServiceNow CEO
Frank Slootman, who led ServiceNow and Data Domain through successful IPOs, is the new chairman and CEO of cloud data warehouse vendor Snowflake, replacing former CEO Bob Muglia.
- April 30, 2019
30 Apr'19
Snowflake CEO Bob Muglia talks cloud data warehouse evolution
In this Q&A, now-former Snowflake CEO Bob Muglia discusses the vendor's decision to embrace cloud data warehousing and how the industry is changing as more data moves to the cloud.
- April 29, 2019
29 Apr'19
Wayfair charts open source components course to growth
Teams at Wayfair mix new open source tools to power customer-facing apps. In such shops, tech leaders like Ben Clark must deftly maneuver an obstacle course of data components.
- April 25, 2019
25 Apr'19
MongoDB buys Realm database to boost mobile chops
MongoDB is buying Realm, the maker of an open source database for cross-platform mobile applications, to boost its Atlas cloud platform and Stitch backend as a service.
- April 17, 2019
17 Apr'19
Google takes a run at enterprise cloud data management
New Google Cloud boss Thomas Kurian is putting databases and data management at the forefront at Google. The vendor has forged key data deals, showing a more mature Google Cloud.
- April 15, 2019
15 Apr'19
Kafka at center of new event processing infrastructure
Events are as important as data in emerging applications underlying many e-commerce efforts. Streams of events tell a company what motivates customers to use online products.
- April 04, 2019
04 Apr'19
Tools manage performance for big data cloud applications
Tools such as Unravel and Pepperdata offer a way to measure performance of big data cloud applications, which may aid companies with on-premises configuration issues.
- March 25, 2019
25 Mar'19
Facebook alumni forge own paths to big data analytics tools
Startups Interana and Rockset differ in their approaches to providing new query capabilities on fast-arriving big data. Both are led by technologists who started at Facebook.
- March 25, 2019
25 Mar'19
Building a business glossary enhances data governance
Experts say data professionals should work to create a common vocabulary in organizations to help boost data governance and compliance with laws like GDPR.
- March 21, 2019
21 Mar'19
Machine learning approaches gain critical mass for data pros
Machine learning will bring change to analytics and data management, said data luminary Michael Stonebraker. Others agree managing such change will take special effort.
- March 15, 2019
15 Mar'19
Big data management practices gain attention amid risks
Many data professionals have yet to solidify traditional data management practices, but they have a new set of challenges to overcome to ensure data privacy and avoid misuse.
- March 12, 2019
12 Mar'19
Aerospike database garners Spark, Kafka connectors
Apache Kafka and Apache Spark connectors ease use of the Aerospike NoSQL data store in high-speed applications such as analytics that are becoming more broadly supported.
- March 11, 2019
11 Mar'19
Data catalog software takes on data lakes, privacy laws
Data catalogs form a hub for managing enterprise data. New products focus on machine learning and AI add-ons that help automate aspects of data governance.
- February 26, 2019
26 Feb'19
Hazelcast grid tunes for data scalability tradeoffs
An in-memory data grid (IMDG) from Hazelcast lets designers tune subsystems to support consistency over availability, or the reverse, depending on what designers want.
- February 14, 2019
14 Feb'19
Originators form group to boost Presto SQL query engine
The Presto engine arose as an alternative to Hive for big data queries. Now, the Presto Software Foundation has formed to promote the SQL query software's virtues.
- February 11, 2019
11 Feb'19
Web integration platform eases way to machine learning models
StoryFit data scientists employ machine learning algorithms to gauge film script scenarios' prospects. They use Import.io tools to make data preparation easier.
- 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.
- January 22, 2019
22 Jan'19
New Teradata CEO pursues cloud-based architecture
Cloud architecture, analytics and AI data processing are top innovation priorities for new Teradata CEO Oliver Ratzesberger. He talks about his goals in this Q&A.
- January 21, 2019
21 Jan'19
Data.gov shutdown shows limits of open data
The Data.gov shutdown shows that, as open data can be turned off, data professionals may need to consider alternative sources for the kinds of data the government offers.
- January 15, 2019
15 Jan'19
Cloudera and Hortonworks combo to push CDP, machine learning
Two wunderkinds of Hadoop have formalized their merger. Cloudera and Hortonworks say they will place special focus on AI as they chart the stand-alone vendor's future.
- January 10, 2019
10 Jan'19
IBM Weather Channel location data use spurs privacy concerns
IBM CEO Ginni Rometty pushed real-time weather data mining for travel and other uses, even as the Los Angeles city attorney is suing IBM's Weather Company unit over its sharing of location data with business partners.
- December 28, 2018
28 Dec'18
Data management trends for 2019: Governance, DataOps, cloud
Better data governance, increased cloud use and wider DataOps adoption head the list of trends for data management teams to plan for in 2019, IT analysts say.
- December 18, 2018
18 Dec'18
Datawatch Swarm on path to combine data prep, analytics
Datawatch plans to add analytics and data visualization tools to its Swarm data preparation platform, starting with integration capabilities in a Swarm 2.2 release.
- 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.
- November 27, 2018
27 Nov'18
Microsoft Azure SQL Database and Oracle 19c start to rev
A new Microsoft Azure SQL Database Managed Instance service seeks to span the gap between cloud and on-premises systems. Meanwhile, Oracle also has cloud plans of the data kind.
- November 06, 2018
06 Nov'18
IBM-Red Hat deal highlights changes due in data processing
The IBM acquisition of Red Hat marks a watershed in computer architecture. The duo says it can rebuild data applications in new ways. This news analysis explores what's coming.
- 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.
- October 04, 2018
04 Oct'18
Cloudera-Hortonworks merger narrows Hadoop users' options
Hadoop users will have fewer choices as big data rivals Cloudera and Hortonworks unite. But the new company may be more competitive with AWS and Google.
- September 26, 2018
26 Sep'18
Mining equipment maker uses BI on Hadoop to dig for data
BI on Hadoop is still new, but moving BI to data is trending. A data scientist working with IoT data at Komatsu sees the importance of getting big data to the right people.
- September 13, 2018
13 Sep'18
Containers key for Hortonworks alliance on big data hybrid
Hortonworks is joining with Red Hat and IBM to work together on a hybrid big data architecture format that will run using containers both in the cloud and on premises.
- September 07, 2018
07 Sep'18
Big data tooling rolls with the changing seas of analytics
Hadoop data tooling is expanding. A view holds that Hadoop is moving from alternate data warehousing to a full-fledged big data analytics offering.