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• July 02, 2020 02 Jul'20

  Ahana brings PrestoDB SQL query engine to the cloud

  Soon after announcing its seed round of funding, Ahana launched commercial support services for the open source federated SQL data query technology.

• July 01, 2020 01 Jul'20

  Confluent enables infinite Kafka scalability in the cloud

  Kafka gets data retention boost that can make it easier for users to store event streaming data for long periods of time, which can help with data analysis.

• June 30, 2020 30 Jun'20

  Fivetran raises $100M to advance enterprise data integration

  The co-founder and CEO of Fivetran talks about what the vendor is doing to help organizations meet the challenges of enterprise data integration.

• June 25, 2020 25 Jun'20

  Databricks debuts Delta Engine built on top of Spark 3.0

  At the Spark + AI Summit 2020, Starbucks and health IT vendor Cerner Corp. outlined how they use Databricks' Data Lake architecture to accelerate data analytics.

• June 24, 2020 24 Jun'20

  Taking a practical approach to open source PostgreSQL

  PostgreSQL database users including Ikea and Konica Minolta Healthcare detail how and why they chose to use the open source database at the Postgres Vision 2020 virtual conference.

• June 23, 2020 23 Jun'20

  IBM advances its Cloudant cloud database as DBaaS grows

  Adam Kocoloski, VP and CTO of IBM cloud data services, details IBM's direction and strategy for cloud databases and explains why Cloudant is changing to boost scalability.

• June 19, 2020 19 Jun'20

  Yellowbrick CEO outlines hybrid path to cloud data warehouse

  Neil Carson, co-founder and CEO of Yellowbrick, details the state of data warehouse market and outlines use cases for hybrid on-premises and cloud deployments.

• June 18, 2020 18 Jun'20

  Why the open source DBaaS market is hot

  Open source database vendors face an array of challenges and opportunities as they flock to the cloud with new database-as-a-service platforms.

• June 16, 2020 16 Jun'20

  Apache Hudi grows cloud data lake maturity

  The open source Apache Hudi project helps large organizations like Uber with stream processing capabilities that handle billions of records on data lakes every day.

• June 09, 2020 09 Jun'20

  Snowflake files for IPO after months of speculation

  Cloud data warehouse vendor Snowflake took a major step toward going public on Tuesday, filing an initial public stock offering with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

• June 09, 2020 09 Jun'20

  Yugabyte boosts distributed SQL database with new funding

  The new CEO of Yugabyte, Bill Cook, explains why his distributed SQL database firm is growing as it raises its Series B round of funding with open source at the foundation.

• June 05, 2020 05 Jun'20

  Data growth spawns enterprise data management system challenges

  Enterprises are creating and using more data and storing more of it in the cloud. If they use that data strategically, they can improve business outcomes.

• June 02, 2020 02 Jun'20

  Snowflake expands cloud data warehouse capabilities

  Snowflake is building out its platform with new integrations to enable users to more easily connect to different data sources, including Salesforce Einstein Analytics.

• May 29, 2020 29 May'20

  Improving enterprise data governance with data trust

  Talend users from Covanta and AutoZone provide insight into data management challenges amid growing data complexity at the Talend Connect virtual conference.

• May 28, 2020 28 May'20

  Couchbase sees a blurring line between cloud NoSQL and SQL

  Matt Cain, president and CEO of Couchbase, explains why NoSQL is part of digital transformation efforts, as his company prepares to launch a database as a service.

• May 27, 2020 27 May'20

  Apache Pulsar joins Kafka in Splunk Data Stream Processor

  Splunk is integrating open source Apache Kafka capabilities alongside Apache Pulsar support to better enable its latest Data Stream Processor release.

• May 22, 2020 22 May'20

  Instaclustr CTO on open source database as a service

  Ben Bromhead, co-founder and CTO of Instaclustr, provides insight into the state of the open source database-as-a-service market as COVID-19 changes priorities and traffic flows.

• May 20, 2020 20 May'20

  Percona users detail open source database challenges

  Speakers from Shopify and LinkedIn outline open source database cloud and security challenges and best practices at the Percona Live Online conference.

• May 18, 2020 18 May'20

  Grafana 7.0 from Grafana Labs expands data visualization

  Distributed tracing data joins log metrics in Grafana 7.0 release, providing users with more ways to connect, observe and visualize data coming from different services.

• May 18, 2020 18 May'20

  How a synthetic data approach is helping COVID-19 research

  Israeli researchers are using a system developed by big data vendor MDClone to collaborate on COVID-19 data to help find ways to deal with the pandemic.

• May 14, 2020 14 May'20

  IBM fast-tracks updates to key middleware, Db2 for cloud era

  Hoping to close the competitive gap with rivals AWS and Microsoft, IBM plans to revamp its lineup of legacy middleware products with improved cloud and AI technologies.

• May 13, 2020 13 May'20

  Redis Labs expands database to real-time data processing

  Open source database vendor Redis Labs released RedisGears and RedisAI in an effort to expand the Redis platform beyond database to enable a real-time data processing system.

• May 12, 2020 12 May'20

  Cockroach Labs looks to accelerate cloud-native database

  Spencer Kimball, co-founder and CEO of Cockroach Labs, talks about the distributed SQL database vendor and its future, with new financing and a new cloud-native database release.

• May 07, 2020 07 May'20

  ScyllaDB 4.0 brings DynamoDB to open source NoSQL database

  After years of focusing on Apache Cassandra compatibility, ScyllaDB 4.0 now also is compatible with Amazon's DynamoDB, bringing new deployment options for users.

• May 06, 2020 06 May'20

  Confluent improves Kafka event streaming in the cloud

  Confluent unveiled the first new capabilities of its Project Metamorphosis, designed to help users deploy and manage event streaming in the cloud.

• May 05, 2020 05 May'20

  Dremio accelerates cloud data lake queries for AWS

  New features in the AWS Edition of Dremio's data lake engine make it easier for organizations to scale and manage data lake queries in the cloud.

• April 30, 2020 30 Apr'20

  How a logical data fabric can improve data management

  As data continues to grow across different sources, speakers at the Fast Data Strategy virtual summit outline how a logical data fabric approach can help.

• April 29, 2020 29 Apr'20

  Couchbase automates cloud-native database management

  New version of NoSQL database vendor Couchbase's Autonomous Operator brings more management to cluster administrators for automated cloud-native database deployments.

• April 28, 2020 28 Apr'20

  Actian Avalanche Real-Time Connected Data Warehouse adds integration

  Actian is expanding its Cloud Data Warehouse with data integration capabilities to enable users to onboard and search data from both cloud and on-premises data sources.

• April 27, 2020 27 Apr'20

  Elastic expands data management efforts to workplace search

  Elastic previewed a new search service that brings enterprise and software-as-a-service data sources together to help users find relevant data, where it resides.

• April 22, 2020 22 Apr'20

  How the GraphQL Foundation is enabling data graphs

  The GraphQL Foundation has grown over the course of its first year as database and application developers adopt the API layer approach to connecting different data sources.

• April 20, 2020 20 Apr'20

  AWS brings cloud data lake services to bear against COVID-19

  AWS has set up a large cloud data lake filled with information and resources on COVID-19 in an effort to help medical researchers fight the global pandemic.

• April 14, 2020 14 Apr'20

  Chief data officer role advances enterprise data governance

  With organizations of all sizes coping with the impact of COVID-19, the importance of enterprise data governance and chief data officers is coming into sharper focus.

• April 09, 2020 09 Apr'20

  How graph data science is helping the fight against COVID-19

  Technology to rapidly correlate and connect disparate data sets in a knowledge graph is being used by German researchers and others in the fight against the coronavirus.

• April 07, 2020 07 Apr'20

  Okera sees increasing demand for enterprise data governance

  Data governance and access vendor raises $14 million as incoming CEO Nick Halsey sees a continuing need for enterprise data governance and secure data access in the COVID-19 era.

• April 03, 2020 03 Apr'20

  PlanetScale extends multi-cloud database as a service

  Open source-based PlanetScaleDB adds support for Microsoft Azure, enabling a multi-cloud database as a service platform that supports the three major public cloud providers.

• April 02, 2020 02 Apr'20

  Oracle NoSQL database comes to the cloud

  Another Oracle database is coming to the cloud with the general availability of Oracle NoSQL Database Cloud Service as the demand for database as a service continues to grow.

• April 01, 2020 01 Apr'20

  MariaDB SkySQL enables cloud-native database as a service

  MariaDB brings back an old name for its cloud-native database-as-a-service platform. MariaDB CEO Michael Howard details how he's looking to compete against the big cloud providers.

• March 31, 2020 31 Mar'20

  DataStax making Cassandra easier with Kubernetes Operators

  New Kubernetes tool for the Apache Cassandra database is DataStax's attempt to create a broadly adopted approach for cloud native deployment.

• March 26, 2020 26 Mar'20

  Ascend boosts enterprise data governance with data lineage

  The new capabilities of Ascend Govern bring data lineage and enterprise data governance as well as the ability to try and figure out the financial cost of data efforts.

• March 25, 2020 25 Mar'20

  The business benefits of enterprise data governance and MDM

  Data leaders from prominent large organizations provide insights into data governance best practices and benefits, at Informatica's MDM 360 and Data Governance virtual conference.

• March 20, 2020 20 Mar'20

  Databricks bolsters security for data analytics tool

  Databricks looks to bridge the gap between on-premises controls and the cloud with data analytics security policies in the company's latest platform update.

• March 17, 2020 17 Mar'20

  Hazelcast Jet 4.0 boosts event streaming data platform

  The vendor's real-time event streaming platform gets a boost as the newest version adds support for Python machine learning models to help make sense of the data deluge.

• March 16, 2020 16 Mar'20

  Rockset brings Query Lambdas to real-time database

  Real-time cloud database looks to help better enable developers to build applications with Query Lambdas capabilities that execute queries and lookups from REST endpoint triggers.

• March 11, 2020 11 Mar'20

  Alluxio brings data catalog to data orchestration platform

  The newly released Alluxio 2.2 adds new data catalog and transformation capabilities to help organizations bridge the gap between data and analytics.

• March 09, 2020 09 Mar'20

  Matillion Data Loader goes GA: No-code tool addresses data ingestion

  Matillion's new tool debuts a SaaS approach to help connect and load data from disparate sources without requiring organizations to conduct data transformations.

• March 06, 2020 06 Mar'20

  Splice Machine 3.0 integrates machine learning capabilities, database

  Monte Zweben, co-founder and CEO of Splice Machine, provides insight into what his distributed SQL database company is doing and where it's headed with its new 3.0 update.

• March 06, 2020 06 Mar'20

  DataStax takes aim at open source Cassandra challenges

  DataStax has acquired open source Cassandra services firm The Last Pickle, adding in key tools that could help overcome enterprise database adoption challenges.

• March 03, 2020 03 Mar'20

  Talend Data Fabric Winter '20 update brings data inventory

  Talend's Winter '20 Data Fabric milestone update integrates a new data inventory capability alongside enhanced data pipeline designer capabilities.

• February 25, 2020 25 Feb'20

  Databricks Data Ingestion Network brings data to lakehouse

  Databricks Ingest entered a public preview in a move by Databricks to enable a lakehouse that combines the best features of the data lake and data warehouse models.

• February 24, 2020 24 Feb'20

  Lessons learned from Credit Karma GraphQL architecture

  Credit Karma's vice president of engineering explains why and how the personal finance service is using the GraphQL data query technology to support its growing business.

• February 21, 2020 21 Feb'20

  EnterpriseDB looks to grow market for PostgreSQL

  Enterprises are increasingly using the open source PostgreSQL database. Read in this Q&A where the growth is coming from and how some of it is from users in the cloud.

• February 19, 2020 19 Feb'20

  Dell EMC Streaming Data Platform integrates open source technology

  Dell combines several open source streaming data technologies, including Apache Kafka, Apache Flink and Pravega, to create a new streaming data platform.

• February 14, 2020 14 Feb'20

  Oracle Data Science efforts advance with new services

  Oracle adds news new services to its cloud infrastructure platform in a bid to provide data scientists, as well as data analysts, with data management and query functionality.

• February 11, 2020 11 Feb'20

  Snowflake raises $479 million to boost cloud data warehouse

  Snowflake is looking to grow its data warehouse platform with new funding and a partnership with Salesforce that could differentiate its platform from rivals.

• February 10, 2020 10 Feb'20

  GoodData says it is CCPA compliant

  GoodData says it is complying with the California Consumer Privacy Act. Meanwhile, founder and CEO Roman Stanek talks about why complexity is a key challenge for data analytics.

• February 05, 2020 05 Feb'20

  Couchbase Cloud takes a new approach to database delivery

  Open source NoSQL database vendor Couchbase enters the cloud database market with a database as a service that lets users choose which public cloud vendor they want to use.

• February 04, 2020 04 Feb'20

  Neo4j 4.0 major update boosts graph database security, scalability

  Major milestone release of open source graph database platform enhances security with controls to limit the risk of data traversal and add multi-database support.

• February 03, 2020 03 Feb'20

  Pepperdata Query Spotlight provides insight into data queries

  New Query Spotlight tool looks to provide visibility across a data analysis cluster into how a query performs over time and why it might have degraded performance.

• January 28, 2020 28 Jan'20

  Informatica data management sets a new direction

  Five years after going private, Informatica has a new CEO and an updated data platform with new data management capabilities to better enable business users.

• January 23, 2020 23 Jan'20

  Hitachi Vantara acquires data catalog vendor Waterline Data

  With the acquisition of Waterline Data, Hitachi Vantara is bringing new data catalog capabilities that will expand the Lumada Data Services and DataOps portfolio.

• January 22, 2020 22 Jan'20

  New Confluent Platform release boosts event streaming quality

  Based on the open-source Kafka event streaming platform, the Confluent Platform 5.4 update adds new capabilities to help meet enterprise data management requirements.

• January 21, 2020 21 Jan'20

  Where InfluxDB time series database is going

  Users need more than SQL for querying databases, according to Paul Dix, co-founder and CTO of InfluxData. That's why the vendor created the Flux data scripting and query language.

• January 16, 2020 16 Jan'20

  MariaDB X4 brings smart transactions to open source database

  Open source database vendor MariaDB updates its flagship platform with new features to enable the convergence of transactional and analytical databases.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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 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.