Data Management
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16 Sep 2026
Agentic data management starts taking shape as a tech option
Data management agents could help data teams boost efficiency and AI readiness, but leaders must address governance and find low-risk starting points to build expertise. Continue Reading
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16 Sep 2026
Neo4j intros graph-based suite for fighting financial crime
The vendor is adding tooling from its GraphAware acquisition to go beyond fraud detection and differentiate itself from those providing only part of the crime-stopping ecosystem. Continue Reading
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07 May 2020
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. Continue Reading
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06 May 2020
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. Continue Reading
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05 May 2020
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. Continue Reading
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01 May 2020
How to ensure your data lake security
Your data lake is full of sensitive information and securing that data is a top priority. These are the best practices to keep that information safe from hackers. Continue Reading
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30 Apr 2020
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. Continue Reading
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29 Apr 2020
Building a database application the DIY way
Business users experience the trials, tribulations and exultations of building a DIY DBMS, especially when IT expertise is not readily available or costs are too high. Continue Reading
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29 Apr 2020
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. Continue Reading
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29 Apr 2020
Data hub vs. data lake: Deciphering the differences
Data lakes and data hubs are approaches to data management that are typically opposed. Here are the main differences between these two storage options. Continue Reading
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28 Apr 2020
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. Continue Reading
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27 Apr 2020
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. Continue Reading
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27 Apr 2020
Data governance and COVID-19 data security challenges
Maintaining data governance and data security best practices is essential now more than ever. But the increase in working from home can put a strain on those practices. Continue Reading
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22 Apr 2020
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. Continue Reading
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21 Apr 2020
Master data management best practices for insurers
For insurers, master data management holds the potential to make how they operate more efficient and effective but requires company commitment and investment. Continue Reading
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20 Apr 2020
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. Continue Reading
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17 Apr 2020
Common data lake challenges and how to overcome them
Managing the data contained in your enterprise data lake presents many challenges. From the amount of data to data inconsistencies, here are some solutions to common issues. Continue Reading
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14 Apr 2020
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. Continue Reading
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09 Apr 2020
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. Continue Reading
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07 Apr 2020
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. Continue Reading
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03 Apr 2020
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. Continue Reading
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02 Apr 2020
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. Continue Reading
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01 Apr 2020
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. Continue Reading
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31 Mar 2020
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. Continue Reading
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26 Mar 2020
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. Continue Reading
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25 Mar 2020
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. Continue Reading
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24 Mar 2020
How data governance and data management work together
Data governance is an important part of data management. These recommendations will help build a strong complementary relationship between the two strategies. Continue Reading
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20 Mar 2020
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. Continue Reading
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17 Mar 2020
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. Continue Reading
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16 Mar 2020
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. Continue Reading
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16 Mar 2020
How to build an effective streaming data architecture
Data architecture can be tricky when it comes to real-time analytics. Clear objectives and scalability are important factors when determining the streaming data architecture you need. Continue Reading
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11 Mar 2020
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. Continue Reading
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09 Mar 2020
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. Continue Reading
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06 Mar 2020
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. Continue Reading
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06 Mar 2020
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. Continue Reading
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06 Mar 2020
Pros and cons of the 4 best IPaaS software options
Integrating with your cloud data? Choosing between IPaaS software and vendors can be difficult. Here is a breakdown of four of the top-choice vendor offerings on the market. Continue Reading
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03 Mar 2020
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. Continue Reading
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03 Mar 2020
The rise of multimodel databases to support data variety
Polyglot persistence has been the predominant answer to supporting diverse data models. But to optimize a variety of data, multimodel databases have been gaining popularity. Continue Reading
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25 Feb 2020
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. Continue Reading
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24 Feb 2020
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. Continue Reading
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21 Feb 2020
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. Continue Reading
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20 Feb 2020
3 of the top use cases for graph databases
Graph databases establish many unique relationships between data points. These unusual relationships are beneficial in many use cases, but here are the top three. Continue Reading
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19 Feb 2020
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. Continue Reading
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14 Feb 2020
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. Continue Reading
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11 Feb 2020
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. Continue Reading
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10 Feb 2020
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. Continue Reading
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10 Feb 2020
6 best practices on data governance for big data environments
Efforts to govern big data must corral a mix of structured and unstructured data. That's a challenge for most organizations. These six action items will help. Continue Reading
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10 Feb 2020
Incorta improves direct data mapping for data lakes
Bringing disparate sets of data into data lakes for data analytics hasn't always been easy. Incorta tries to do it with its new 4.6 platform update. Continue Reading
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10 Feb 2020
NoSQL database comparison to help you choose the right store
With so many NoSQL databases to choose from, how can you tell which is best for your data set? Check out this comparison of some of the most popular NoSQL databases. Continue Reading
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05 Feb 2020
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. Continue Reading
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04 Feb 2020
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. Continue Reading
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03 Feb 2020
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. Continue Reading
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28 Jan 2020
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. Continue Reading
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Tip
28 Jan 2020
Should you host your data lake in the cloud?
On premises or in the cloud: What's the better place for your data lake? Here are some things to consider before deciding where to deploy a big data environment. Continue Reading
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Definition
24 Jan 2020
What is Extract, Load, Transform (ELT)?
Extract, Load, Transform (ELT) is a data integration process for transferring raw data from a source server to a data system (such as a data warehouse or data lake) on a target server and then preparing the information for downstream uses. Continue Reading
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23 Jan 2020
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. Continue Reading
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22 Jan 2020
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. Continue Reading
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21 Jan 2020
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. Continue Reading
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21 Jan 2020
What are the main features of data catalog software?
Data catalogs are curated data portals for self-service analytics users. Learn about the capabilities of data catalog tools, vendors that sell them and how catalogs work. Continue Reading
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16 Jan 2020
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. Continue Reading
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15 Jan 2020
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. Continue Reading
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14 Jan 2020
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. Continue Reading
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13 Jan 2020
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. Continue Reading
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13 Jan 2020
Analytics demands add loftier goals to data warehouse strategies
As the concept of storing data and the technologies needed to do it evolve, companies with set goals in mind are building their data warehouses to maximize analytics outcomes. Continue Reading
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10 Jan 2020
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. Continue Reading
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08 Jan 2020
Evaluate your data governance and privacy best practices
GDPR and CCPA have put data governance in the news. With this increase in data legislation, now is a great time to review your company's data governance policies. Continue Reading
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07 Jan 2020
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. Continue Reading
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26 Dec 2019
How to improve data governance for self-service analytics
Citizen data scientists and self-service analytics are on the rise as the data scientist shortage continues. Here are some data management best practices to support them. Continue Reading
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20 Dec 2019
Apache Kafka version 2.4 improves streaming data performance
The latest release of the Apache Kafka open source event streaming platform adds improved replication and availability capabilities to help boost overall performance. Continue Reading
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20 Dec 2019
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. Continue Reading
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18 Dec 2019
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. Continue Reading
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17 Dec 2019
Data catalog management for analytics fraught with unique demands
Data catalogs for analytics applications demand detailed assessment of user needs, cross-functional teams, ready access, continuous improvement and a self-sustaining system. Continue Reading
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13 Dec 2019
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. Continue Reading
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11 Dec 2019
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. Continue Reading
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Feature
10 Dec 2019
How to streamline feature engineering for machine learning
Structured data is necessary in machine learning, but sifting through data is time consuming. Streamlining the feature engineering process can help data scientists be more productive. Continue Reading
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04 Dec 2019
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. Continue Reading
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02 Dec 2019
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. Continue Reading
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26 Nov 2019
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. Continue Reading
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21 Nov 2019
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. Continue Reading
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21 Nov 2019
Future of MongoDB could be brighter than other NoSQL engines
Top NoSQL database MongoDB, once thought of as a revolution in data management, has come back to Earth some, but it still has a chance to stay ahead of competitors. Continue Reading
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19 Nov 2019
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. Continue Reading
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18 Nov 2019
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. Continue Reading
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14 Nov 2019
How AI could save the enterprise data catalog
Enterprise data catalogs record all the databases and files in a corporation, but sometimes it can become out of date. Advances in AI are helping minimize the problem. Continue Reading
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13 Nov 2019
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. Continue Reading
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11 Nov 2019
Managing unstructured data is crucial to enterprises' AI goals
Unstructured data makes up a huge portion of most businesses' data volume. But, with data-hungry AI systems coming online, making sense of these stores has never been more important. Continue Reading
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08 Nov 2019
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. Continue Reading
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06 Nov 2019
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. Continue Reading
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05 Nov 2019
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. Continue Reading
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31 Oct 2019
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. Continue Reading
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29 Oct 2019
How enterprises navigate GDPR data management rules
For businesses that operate in the EU, complying with GDPR has to be a top priority. And in many, much of the compliance burden falls on the data management staff. Continue Reading
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24 Oct 2019
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. Continue Reading
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24 Oct 2019
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. Continue Reading
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21 Oct 2019
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. Continue Reading
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18 Oct 2019
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. Continue Reading
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17 Oct 2019
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. Continue Reading
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14 Oct 2019
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. Continue Reading
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11 Oct 2019
Data integration vs. ETL in the age of big data
Data integration provides a consistent view of business performance across multiple data sources, though it needs to keep up with the changing needs of organizations and the big data revolution. Continue Reading
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10 Oct 2019
DOD CDO shares 7 data management best practices
The DOD's first chief data officer, Michael Conlin, shares tips on how organizations can modernize their data management practices with the objective of matching private enterprise. Continue Reading
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Tip
08 Oct 2019
7 steps to a successful data lake implementation
Flooding a Hadoop cluster with data that isn't well organized and managed can stymie analytics efforts. Take these steps to help make your data lake accessible and usable. Continue Reading
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News
08 Oct 2019
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. Continue Reading
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08 Oct 2019
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. Continue Reading
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04 Oct 2019
Align business and IT drivers through data quality best practices
Information management consultants talk about the importance of aligning business and IT drivers for a holistic architectural approach to ensuring strong data quality. Continue Reading