Data management strategies
Data is a corporate asset that helps make more-informed business decisions, improve marketing campaigns, optimize business operations and reduce costs. Learn data management strategies to ensure IT systems run business applications and provide analytical information that drives decision-making and strategic planning by corporate executives, business managers and end users.
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11 Dec 2024
Aerospike adds new vector search capabilities to database
With vector search a critical component of AI development, the vendor's latest vector search and storage capabilities target simplifying data discovery for training AI tools. Continue Reading
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10 Dec 2024
Acceldata unveils AI-powered data observability tools
The vendor's update includes features such as error detection with root cause analysis and schema reconciliation that use AI to automate finding and fixing data integrity problems. Continue Reading
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Tip
01 Sep 2022
5 paperless office software tools to consider
With seemingly endless options to choose from, picking the right paperless office software tool starts with understanding what options are available. Continue Reading
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31 Aug 2022
Meta and partners build Velox open source execution engine
The Facebook parent company, along with multiple contributors, including Ahana, Voltron Data and Intel, are developing a new open source technology to make data processing faster. Continue Reading
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30 Aug 2022
Alation adds Snowflake service, updates data catalog
The vendor launched the Alation Cloud Service for Snowflake designed to enable Snowflake users to more easily use Alation's data intelligence capabilities. Continue Reading
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30 Aug 2022
StarTree raises $47M for Apache Pinot-based analytics database
The vendor raised new money to continue to grow its database technology as the applications for analytics databases have expanded in recent years with more real-time data needs. Continue Reading
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24 Aug 2022
Zilliz raises $60M for open source Milvus vector database
The leading commercial backer behind the open source Milvus database project is looking to advance the technology to build out a database for AI application workloads. Continue Reading
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19 Aug 2022
PlanetScale reaches to the edge with serverless driver
The vendor continues to build out its database-as-a-service platform and is now aiming to make it easier for developers to connect to edge services. Continue Reading
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19 Aug 2022
Why you need to consider using small data to train AI models
A smaller data set makes sense for certain applications, such as intelligent document processing. It is not helpful in cases in which a large volume is needed to avoid mistakes. Continue Reading
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18 Aug 2022
MariaDB set to expand geospatial database capabilities
With the purchase of CubeWerx, the database vendor will add geospatial capabilities to its SkySQL database service that will enable satellite imagery analysis in applications. Continue Reading
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17 Aug 2022
Arcion data pipeline updates for schema evolution
The vendor added new database support to its change data capture platform including for BigQuery and Imply, as well as features for schema update and data column transformations. Continue Reading
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17 Aug 2022
Cloudera users get fully managed data lakehouse platform
The vendor is expanding its set of offerings with the launch of CDP One, a service initially available only on AWS that enables serverless deployment in the cloud. Continue Reading
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Opinion
15 Aug 2022
The modern data platform drives data-centric organizations
IT leads the modern data platform, functioning as the conduit, efficiently delivering the correct data to the right users, to empower data-driven decision-making in organizations. Continue Reading
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11 Aug 2022
GridGain, Apache Ignite founder talks in-memory databases
Nikita Ivanov details the origin of his company and discusses the growing need organizations have for real-time database processing capabilities to complete modern transactions. Continue Reading
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Definition
11 Aug 2022
soft copy
A soft copy (sometimes spelled 'softcopy') is an electronic copy (or e-copy) of some type of data, such as a file viewed on a computer's display or transmitted as an email attachment. Continue Reading
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09 Aug 2022
A look at Presto, Trino SQL query engines
The co-creator of the open source project at Facebook reflects on 10 years of growth as he helps lead one of its resulting tools into the future. Continue Reading
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Definition
08 Aug 2022
data catalog
A data catalog is a software application that creates an inventory of an organization's data assets to help data professionals and business users find relevant data for analytics uses. Continue Reading
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05 Aug 2022
Hazelcast CEO looks to grow real-time data platform
The CEO of the data streaming vendor discusses the direction Hazelcast is heading in as it launches a serverless platform for real-time processing of streaming and contextual data. Continue Reading
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Definition
04 Aug 2022
data governance policy
A data governance policy is a documented set of guidelines for ensuring that an organization's data and information assets are managed consistently and used properly. Continue Reading
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Tip
29 Jul 2022
Create a better endpoint backup strategy for remote work
An endpoint backup strategy must protect data for remote employees working on a variety of devices without IT oversight. Incremental and immutable backups are key. Continue Reading
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Tip
28 Jul 2022
What is data lineage? Techniques, best practices and tools
Organizations can bolster data governance efforts by tracking the lineage of data in their systems. Get advice on how to do so and how data lineage tools can help. Continue Reading
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Tip
28 Jul 2022
How to build a successful paperless office strategy
Shifting an organization to be a paperless office starts with finding the right tools to digitize content and establishing the strategy and processes that promote staff buy-in. Continue Reading
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Feature
28 Jul 2022
Tips to plan storage elements of artificial intelligence
Author and data engineer Chinmay Arankalle explores how organizations can manage storage for AI. Management and storage options include data lakes and high-performance storage. Continue Reading
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28 Jul 2022
Truist chief data officer on data management challenges
The CDO of bank holding company Truist outlines what she sees as an optimal data management culture as the demand for data skills continues to grow. Continue Reading
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22 Jul 2022
Apache Beam users detail stream data processing applications
At a Beam conference, users detail how they're using the open source data processing technology at large scale in support of a growing number of data pipelines. Continue Reading
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Feature
20 Jul 2022
4 real-world examples of zero-party data
With zero-party data directly from consumers, marketing teams get better data to help retain customers and improve CX. These real-world examples highlight how this data works. Continue Reading
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19 Jul 2022
Confluent update eases multi-cloud event data streaming
The event data streaming vendor's new update introduces features to make it easier to integrate into a multi-cloud data stack deployment with the debut of a Terraform provider. Continue Reading
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14 Jul 2022
StarRocks brings open source OLAP database to the cloud
The open source online analytical transaction processing DBaaS startup takes a different approach to accelerate queries as it moves to the cloud. Continue Reading
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14 Jul 2022
ScyllaDB V open source NoSQL database embraces WebAssembly
New release of the open source NoSQL database adds an optimized I/O scheduler to accelerate read/write operations and improve workload scalability. Continue Reading
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Tip
11 Jul 2022
6 CDO challenges that hinder data-driven initiatives
Chief data officers often run into difficulties getting projects off the ground. Here are six challenges hindering modern CDOs' data-driven projects and strategies. Continue Reading
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06 Jul 2022
IBM acquires Databand for data observability technology
The tech giant continued to build out its data fabric platform by acquiring a data startup with a platform that enables organizations to monitor and optimize data pipelines. Continue Reading
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30 Jun 2022
Cloudera embraces Apache Iceberg as cloud data lake evolves
The Cloudera Data Platform now supports the open source cloud data lake table format as part of the continuing evolution of the broader Hadoop ecosystem. Continue Reading
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29 Jun 2022
DataStax extends Astra Streaming event data platform
The data platform vendor extended its Apache Pulsar-based Astra Streaming platform with support for more streaming protocols, including Kafka, JMS and RabbitMQ. Continue Reading
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29 Jun 2022
Yugabyte distributed SQL database adds migration service
The YugabyteDB 2.15 distributed SQL database update introduces a table group feature to accelerate and optimize performance for different database workloads. Continue Reading
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28 Jun 2022
Databricks accelerates data lakehouse at Data + AI Summit
Databricks committed to making its Delta Lake technology fully open source as the vendor rolled out platform updates to accelerate data analytics and machine learning workloads. Continue Reading
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Answer
27 Jun 2022
DBMS keys: 8 types of keys defined
Here's a guide to primary, super, foreign and candidate keys, what they're used for in relational database management systems and the differences among them. Continue Reading
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23 Jun 2022
Starburst acquires Varada to accelerate data lake queries
After a year of partnering, the data lake query vendor decided to acquire fellow Trino SQL query engine supporter Varada to help boost query performance. Continue Reading
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22 Jun 2022
Treeverse set to launch LakeFS cloud data lake service
The open source LakeFS technology gets a fully managed cloud service to help organization better iterate and version cloud data sources for development efforts. Continue Reading
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22 Jun 2022
Reltio integrates data quality with cloud MDM platform
The master data management vendor adds new capabilities to its cloud service to enable organizations to more easily integrate validated data with business operations. Continue Reading
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17 Jun 2022
Neon previews serverless PostgreSQL database service
Startup emerges to launch a new developer-focused cloud database as a service based on open source PostgreSQL, with capabilities to enable branching for application development. Continue Reading
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15 Jun 2022
DataStax raises $115M to advance its data stack
The CEO of the data platform vendor, which is a leading contributor to the open source Cassandra database, details why the vendor is looking to assemble a full data stack. Continue Reading
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14 Jun 2022
Yellowbrick 6 advances cloud data warehouse deployments
The data warehouse vendor is growing its hybrid data warehouse capabilities with version 6.0 of its namesake platform that is now enabled to run on AWS. Continue Reading
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14 Jun 2022
Snowflake Data Cloud expands with Unistore Hybrid Tables
Snowflake adds more capabilities, including support for Apache Iceberg data lake tables and both transactional and analytics workloads, with Hybrid Tables. Continue Reading
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Tip
08 Jun 2022
Can you really use a shared database for microservices?
Since its emergence as a mainstream development style, experts have debated the wisdom of using a shared database for microservices versus providing a database per service. Continue Reading
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Tip
08 Jun 2022
Explore the benefits and challenges of paperless offices
While transitioning to a paperless office can be costly, the benefits of paperless are enough to justify the cost for most organizations. Continue Reading
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07 Jun 2022
MongoDB 6.0 set to bring analytics to NoSQL database
The vendor plans to update its database technology with new capabilities including queryable encryption and columnstore index to accelerate data analytics queries. Continue Reading
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Definition
02 Jun 2022
document
A document is a form of information that might be useful to a user or set of users. Continue Reading
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01 Jun 2022
PlanetScale brings new insights to its database as a service
The vendor expanded its cloud database service with new capabilities for integrated data observability with insights, as well as the ability to scale read-only replicas. Continue Reading
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Answer
01 Jun 2022
How to build a data catalog: 10 key steps
A data catalog helps business and analytics users explore data assets, find relevant data and understand what it means. Here are 10 important steps for building one. Continue Reading
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Tip
26 May 2022
Top benefits of data governance for businesses
Effective data governance provides a variety of benefits to organizations, including improvements in operational efficiency, data quality and business decision-making. Continue Reading
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26 May 2022
Alation boosts data intelligence with Open Data Quality
The vendor's latest update brings users more integration options to connect with data quality tools and adds more capabilities for data governance to the data catalog platform. Continue Reading
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25 May 2022
CockroachDB boosts automation in distributed SQL database
The database vendor has updated its CockroachDB platform with features to enable users to more reliably scale and control operations to meet data demands. Continue Reading
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Feature
25 May 2022
The history and evolution of the paperless office
From the advent of word processors to full-time remote work, the history of paperless offices reflects major technological innovations across the past four decades. Continue Reading
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24 May 2022
Informatica advances Intelligent Data Management Cloud
The data management vendor added new services to its cloud data platform, including specific offerings for the financial services and healthcare industry verticals. Continue Reading
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24 May 2022
Monte Carlo set to boost data observability with $135M raise
Monte Carlo's CTO provides insight into the state of the data market as the volume of data sources and pipelines continues to be a challenge for organizations to optimize. Continue Reading
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Tip
19 May 2022
The future of DMPs in a post-cookies world
DMPs are still important in marketers' jobs, but the move away from third-party cookies threatens the DMP's future. Here's what marketers and DMP providers need to know. Continue Reading
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18 May 2022
Apollo GraphQL creates supergraph for connected data service
Apollo is out with updates for its namesake GraphQL platform, including a new router technology and a data federation update to help organizations connect to data sources. Continue Reading
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Tip
17 May 2022
6 key steps to develop a data governance strategy
Data governance shouldn't be built around technology, but the other way around. Existing infrastructure, executive support, data literacy, metrics and proper tools are essential. Continue Reading
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17 May 2022
Percona Platform aims to boost open source database support
The open source database services provider is out with a new integrated offering that provides automated capabilities for organizations to manage and optimize database operations. Continue Reading
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17 May 2022
Imply raises $100M for analytics database technology
The lead vendor behind the open source Apache Druid database raises new money to help grow its go-to-market efforts and build out new technology as it heads toward a possible IPO. Continue Reading
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Tip
13 May 2022
7 best practices for successful data governance programs
A comprehensive, companywide data governance program strengthens data infrastructure, improves compliance initiatives, supports strategic intelligence and boosts customer loyalty. Continue Reading
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11 May 2022
PingCap brings TiDB distributed SQL HTAP database to cloud
The TiDB Cloud provides a fully managed deployment of the open source TiDB database, which provides both analytical and transactional processing functionality. Continue Reading
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10 May 2022
Talend Data Fabric updates data health functionality
The data integration vendor is improving its data fabric with enhancements that strengthen its trust score for providing a metric for data quality and health. Continue Reading
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10 May 2022
Couchbase Server 7.1 advances enterprise NoSQL database
The database vendor is updating its namesake platform with an optimized storage engine and new integrations to connect data sources including cloud data lakes. Continue Reading
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Feature
06 May 2022
8 proactive steps to improve data quality
Here are eight steps to take to improve your organization's data quality in a proactive way, before data errors and other issues cause business problems. Continue Reading
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04 May 2022
Starburst boosts data lake connections and fault tolerance
The data lake query vendor is bringing new features to its platform to optimize queries with the open source Trino query engine across multiple formats and sources. Continue Reading
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04 May 2022
Alluxio 2.8 improves data orchestration platform security
Open source-based data platform provider Alluxio is updating its namesake technology with enhanced Amazon S3 support and improved security for cloud data access. Continue Reading
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29 Apr 2022
Explore top data lake providers for substantial storage use
Don't be deterred by the murky waters of data lake technology. Fishing for the right provider to accelerate your analytics is probably easier than you think. Continue Reading
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28 Apr 2022
Hasura enables GraphQL joins for data federation
Connecting multiple GraphQL services is a new feature in the Hasura 2.6 update that helps organizations unify multiple data sources in a data federation. Continue Reading
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28 Apr 2022
Ocient Hyperscale Data Warehouse scales data operations
The data warehouse vendor is targeting enterprises that need to use a trillion rows of data or more for analysis, with hyperscale technology that is now ready for broader adoption. Continue Reading
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26 Apr 2022
Akamai goes DBaaS with Linode Managed Database service
The Linode Managed Database service is set to debut, bringing support for the MySQL database and expanding support to include PostgreSQL, Redis and MongoDB in the coming months. Continue Reading
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21 Apr 2022
Databricks aims data lakehouse at media and entertainment
Gaming vendor Sega is using the data vendor's technology to unify its data for sales as well as game balancing to enable players to get the best experience. Continue Reading
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20 Apr 2022
Oracle boosts Exadata Cloud Infrastructure with X9M
New hardware is coming to the tech giant's cloud service for database workloads, with the Exadata X9M for more compute and storage to provide increased performance and scale. Continue Reading
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19 Apr 2022
Confluent secures event data streaming in cloud update
The vendor's Q2 2022 cloud update provides more precise security access control to help organizations better secure, scale and manage the Apache Kafka-based technology platform. Continue Reading
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Definition
14 Apr 2022
Data Dredging (data fishing)
Data dredging -- sometimes referred to as data fishing -- is a data mining practice in which large data volumes are analyzed to find any possible relationships between them. Continue Reading
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12 Apr 2022
Arcion brings change data capture platform to the cloud
Getting data out of one system and into another in the right format as quickly as possible is a challenge the Arcion Cloud service is aiming to address for organizations. Continue Reading
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07 Apr 2022
NetApp acquires Instaclustr for database as a service
Instaclustr is being acquired by NetApp in a bid to the help the vendor grow beyond its on-premises storage roots into the bustling market for cloud software as a service. Continue Reading
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06 Apr 2022
Google grows cloud capabilities with BigLake data lakehouse
Google is continuing to build out its cloud data services with a new approach that will serve as a central cloud service for unifying data across different clouds and formats. Continue Reading
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05 Apr 2022
Redpanda expands event data streaming with more visibility
Alex Gallego, founder and CEO of Redpanda, discusses why his company acquired Kafka user interface vendor CloudHut, as organizations deal with the challenges of real-time data. Continue Reading
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31 Mar 2022
Swim Continuum advances event streaming data intelligence
The vendor is continuing to build out its technology aimed at enabling organizations to build applications that use real-time data to improve operations. Continue Reading
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29 Mar 2022
Oracle HeatWave ML fuses machine learning with database
The tech giant is continuing to build out the capabilities of its MySQL HeatWave cloud database with real-time elasticity, performance boosts and machine learning integration. Continue Reading
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29 Mar 2022
Pinecone raises $28M to advance vector database
The startup's database technology enables enterprises to use traditional data stores alongside vector-based data to support advanced data queries and search. Continue Reading
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Feature
25 Mar 2022
Who manages data lakes and what skills are needed?
Data engineers, data scientists and chief data officers are just some of the people who have the skills to manage data lakes. Continue Reading
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24 Mar 2022
DataStax Astra DB integrates real-time data streaming
The database-as-a-service vendor advanced the change data capture capabilities of its cloud database with technology from its Apache Pulsar-based streaming service. Continue Reading
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24 Mar 2022
PlanetScale eases serverless database schema migration
The database-as-a-service platform vendor looks to make it easier for developers to build data-driven applications and revert schema changes when needed. Continue Reading
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17 Mar 2022
Jitsuin rebrands as RKVST for blockchain data assurance
The RKVST platform supports multiple types of blockchain data applications, including secured SBOM data sharing for cybersecurity. Continue Reading
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Tip
16 Mar 2022
10 key elements to follow data compliance regulations
Data privacy laws are changing around the world on a constant basis. These 10 elements can help keep organizations up to speed with data compliance regulations. Continue Reading
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16 Mar 2022
Oracle Multi-VM Autonomous Database lands on Exadata systems
The tech giant now enables users of the Exadata Cloud at Customer service to run multiple types of the vendor's fully managed and unmanaged databases on the same hardware. Continue Reading
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15 Mar 2022
Redis launches JSON database capabilities with RedisJSON 2.0
The data platform vendor is growing beyond its data caching roots to support more data types and full database capabilities that integrate with RediSearch indexing technology. Continue Reading
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Definition
15 Mar 2022
Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI)
The Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) is an international standard that defines a functional interface that applications use to create, retrieve, update and delete data elements from cloud storage. Continue Reading
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14 Mar 2022
Fauna brings real-time streaming to serverless database
The ability to directly subscribe to real-time updates is the latest feature for the Fauna database that can help developers quickly bring data to applications. Continue Reading
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11 Mar 2022
Instaclustr to support Karapace open source schema registry
Instaclustr is joining rival Aiven in an effort to support an open source technology that brings REST proxy and schema technology to Kafka event streaming. Continue Reading
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09 Mar 2022
New approaches create opportunity to turn data into value
Bill Schmarzo, a data science industry thought leader, discusses how organizations can reframe their view of data using economic concepts to turn data into value. Continue Reading
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09 Mar 2022
Databricks extends data lakehouse platform to healthcare
Healthcare data exists in widely varying formats. Getting it into a data lake where it can be used for analytics and machine learning is a challenge Databricks is looking to meet. Continue Reading
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08 Mar 2022
DataStax scales K8ssandra for cloud-native Cassandra
The real-time data vendor is out with a new release of its K8ssandra Kubernetes operator that enables organizations to deploy, configure and run the Apache Cassandra database. Continue Reading
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07 Mar 2022
Fannie Mae, Mercedes-Benz detail data lake platform uses
At the Subsurface Winter 2022 virtual conference, several organizations including Fannie Mae and Mercedes-Benz explained why and how they are using Dremio's data lake engine. Continue Reading
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04 Mar 2022
Directus brings Open Data Platform technology to the cloud
The vendor's new managed cloud service is designed to enable organizations to connect applications, business intelligence and websites to data sources and databases. Continue Reading
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03 Mar 2022
Finance firms scrape alternative data from unexpected sources
Investment firms and individual investors use data from sources as diverse as Facebook and TikTok, private jet tracking, geolocation and sentiment analysis to buy and sell securities. Continue Reading
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02 Mar 2022
Dremio opens up data lakehouse with new engine
The data lakehouse vendor is expanding its cloud platform with a new SQL query engine and data metastore for data lakes that builds on top of the Apache Iceberg table format. Continue Reading
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02 Mar 2022
Anomalo Pulse dashboard aims for data quality insights
The startup is enhancing its platform by providing users with a new dashboard that brings visibility into the state of data used for data analytics and business intelligence. Continue Reading
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01 Mar 2022
Imply Polaris brings Apache Druid database to the cloud
Imply's new Polaris cloud database services builds on the open source Druid technology, with integrated data ingestion capabilities and a new multi-stage query engine. Continue Reading
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25 Feb 2022
SentinelOne reboots Scalyr as enterprise data platform
The cybersecurity vendor launches DataSet as a separate technology service from its core cybersecurity platform to help organizations manage and query large volumes of data. Continue Reading