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28 Dec 2022
10 top data architect and data engineer certifications in 2023
Learn what it takes to achieve and accelerate a rewarding career in data architecture and choose from among some of the best data architect and data engineer certifications. Continue Reading
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18 Jan 2022
Fivetran updates data integration platform with dbt Core
With automated data transformations and new data lineage visualization graphs, Fivetran is looking to make building data pipelines easier for data users. Continue Reading
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09 Mar 2021
Apache Daffodil advancing Data Format Description Language
Data integration and data loading efforts could get easier to execute, as open source DFDL project becomes a Top-Level Project at the Apache Software Foundation. Continue Reading
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05 Mar 2021
Oracle Database 21c looks for adoption of blockchain tables
Blockchain isn't just for cryptocurrency. The technology can be an additional layer of security and authenticity enabling an immutable transaction ledger in a relational database. Continue Reading
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04 Mar 2021
Yugabyte raises $48M to build out distributed SQL database
The leader of a young open source database company explains why the vendor is raising new money as the demand for cloud scalability continues to grow. Continue Reading
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02 Mar 2021
Microsoft ignites Apache Cassandra Azure service
Microsoft rolled out a series of enhancements for the company's cloud data efforts, including updates to Azure Cosmos DB and a new database service for Cassandra. Continue Reading
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02 Mar 2021
Airbyte set to advance open source data integration platform
The CEO of a data integration startup explains how he is looking to grow the technology and community behind the vendor's open source data extract and loading platform. Continue Reading
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26 Feb 2021
Open source database migration guide: How to transition
Open source database transitions have been on the rise as they prove to be worthy competitors to commercial database options, but that transition requires strategy and user buy-in. Continue Reading
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25 Feb 2021
DataStax Astra serverless DBaaS optimizes deployments
DataStax is changing how its DBaaS works, providing a way for users to more easily scale both up and own and only pay for the resources that are consumed. Continue Reading
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25 Feb 2021
AWS Data Exchange and the third-party cloud data marketplace
The general manager of the AWS Data Exchange data feed service details what the cloud data marketplace is all about and where it's headed in the future. Continue Reading
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23 Feb 2021
Hasura 2.0 expands GraphQL API-to-database connectivity
Hasura is looking beyond solely transactional databases with its new platform update, enabling users to more easily connect with BigQuery as well as other data sources. Continue Reading
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22 Feb 2021
The top 5 graph database advantages for enterprises
Graph databases offer plenty of advantages to organizations in the way they connect data points to each other. Read on to see what experts say the top advantages are. Continue Reading
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19 Feb 2021
Alation 2021.1 data catalog improves data intelligence
Alation updated its platform with new features for data discovery and search, as well as more data governance capabilities to enhance data trust. Continue Reading
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18 Feb 2021
Why your data story matters and how to tell it
Data storytelling isn't just for business analysts. Find out how to build a data management story and why you need to have one in the first place. Continue Reading
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18 Feb 2021
Grafana Enterprise brings observability stack on premises
Grafana Labs is launching a new on-premises project stack for data observability, based on a series of open source projects that the company leads or supports. Continue Reading
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16 Feb 2021
Matillion raises $100M for ETL to enable data middleware
The co-founder and CEO of Matillion, talks about his company’'s latest round of Series D funding and how data will be the key to success for many organizations in 2021. Continue Reading
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16 Feb 2021
New SingleStore CIO's vision is to enrich lives through data
Oliver Schabenberger is moving from BI and analytics to data management, and in this Q&A discusses his surprising departure from an established vendor to go to a newer company. Continue Reading
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12 Feb 2021
Cloud data catalog benefits for the enterprise
Vendor cloud data catalog options are expanding and offering more automated tools to end users. Read on to find out how enterprises can benefit from these options. Continue Reading
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12 Feb 2021
YugabyteDB 2.4 brings new Spark to distributed SQL database
Distributed SQL database vendor issues new stable release of its platform, adding support for Apache Spark 3.0 and encryption for data at rest. Continue Reading
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12 Feb 2021
Starburst Galaxy brings Trino to the cloud
Starburst previewed a new managed service based on the open source Trino-based data management and query engine platform technology during the Datanova virtual conference. Continue Reading
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11 Feb 2021
Talend CEO talks about vendor's growth strategy
With its cloud business a primary driver of growth, Talend is progressing toward the goal of increasing annual revenue from $250 million to $1 billion. Continue Reading
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10 Feb 2021
Time series database firm EraDB launches Erasearch
EraDB made its EraSearch log management platform generally available, providing organizations with a system that can help improve performance and scalability. Continue Reading
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09 Feb 2021
Monte Carlo gets new funding to expand data observability
The CEO of data management startup Monte Carlo, which raised $25 million in Series B funding Tuesday, details her views on the key pillars of data reliability. Continue Reading
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05 Feb 2021
Hazelcast Jet 4.4 brings SQL to stream processing engine
Hazelcast Jet brings new SQL query capabilities to the stream processing platform that will enable developers to continuously query streaming data without interrupting data flow. Continue Reading
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04 Feb 2021
Vendia raises $15.5M for serverless blockchain data sharing
Vendia is building out its data platform that uses distributed ledger blockchain technology to help organizations and developers more easily share data. Continue Reading
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04 Feb 2021
Data catalog comparison to help you choose your best fit
Data catalog options vary across vendors, but, as with most decisions in the data realm, it takes self-knowledge to make the right choice and understand each option's capabilities. Continue Reading
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03 Feb 2021
Collibra acquires predictive data quality vendor OwlDQ
With OwlDQ, Collibra is bringing data quality capabilities to its data intelligence platform to help users better understand and evaluate the impact of different sources of data. Continue Reading
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02 Feb 2021
MongoDB Realm Sync simplifies cloud data synchronization
MongoDB put into general availability its mobile Realm database to data synchronization service, easing the challenge for developers to connect data from the edge to the cloud. Continue Reading
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01 Feb 2021
Databricks fueling data lakehouse goals with $1B funding round
Databricks gets a major vote of confidence from big name investors, including Franklin Templeton, as it raises new funding to help it advance its cloud data management technology efforts. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
29 Jan 2021
Creating a data advantage by building a data ecosystem
Developing a data ecosystem will improve personalization and customer retention. Find out how data mining across channels can build a data advantage for your organization. Continue Reading
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29 Jan 2021
Apache Iceberg rising for new cloud data lake platforms
The open source Apache Iceberg project is helping to define a new data tier for cloud data lakes that can help to improve performance and access for large data sets. Continue Reading
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28 Jan 2021
Pandemic exposes difficulty of data management in education
Limited resources and a shift to remote learning have shown the inequalities across school districts when it comes to data management and the negative impact this can have. Continue Reading
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27 Jan 2021
DataStax enters event streaming market with Apache Pulsar
DataStax is getting into the event streaming market with the acquisition of Kesque, which uses the open source Apache Pulsar project as the foundation for its platform. Continue Reading
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27 Jan 2021
Neo4j unveils cloud graph database for the enterprise
Neo4j Aura Enterprise is a fully-managed cloud database built for large organizations. The vendor previously developed Aura Professional, a similar tool for SMBs. Continue Reading
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22 Jan 2021
Data fabrics help data lakes seek the truth
Data fabrics can play a key role in aligning business goals with the integration, governance, reliability and democratization of information collected in massive data lakes. Continue Reading
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21 Jan 2021
Kyligence builds out data cloud for OLAP and big data
Kyligence is advancing the Apache Kylin project with a cloud-native offering that can help organizations more efficiently execute and manage data queries against large data sets. Continue Reading
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21 Jan 2021
Augmented data preparation the next step for self-service BI
Augmented data tools play a key role in expanding data use across organizations. Read on to find out how augmented data preparation tools democratize data in self-service BI. Continue Reading
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20 Jan 2021
Fivetran data connectors boost enterprise data integration
An enterprise data integration vendor is building out its suite of data connectors with updates for organizations to create data pipelines for business processes and analytics. Continue Reading
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15 Jan 2021
Informatica takes Customer 360 master data management to cloud
Updated MDM service benefits from integrations with the broader cloud-native Informatica platform that is built on top of a microservices Kubernetes-based architecture. Continue Reading
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15 Jan 2021
Graph database vs. relational database: Key differences
Relational databases and graph databases both focus on the relationships between data but not in the same ways. Here are some key differences between the two. Continue Reading
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15 Jan 2021
ScyllaDB NoSQL database to improve with Project Circe
ScyllaDB Project Circe sets out to help improve consistency, elasticity and performance for the open source NoSQL database. Continue Reading
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13 Jan 2021
Oracle Database 21c brings blockchain and JavaScript
Oracle's flagship DB platform is moving beyond its roots with the 21c update, to embrace more languages and models in a bid to create a universal converged database offering. Continue Reading
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12 Jan 2021
Cockroach Labs nabs $160M to grow distributed SQL database
Cockroach Labs is looking to advance its CockroachDB database platform in 2021 with $160 million in new funding that it will use to help expand features and market reach. Continue Reading
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08 Jan 2021
Starburst raises $100M as PrestoSQL rebrands as Trino
Starburst is advancing its enterprise data platform with new funding that will help advance its cloud efforts around the open source Trino query engine formerly known as PrestoSQL. Continue Reading
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07 Jan 2021
Open source database comparison to choose the right tool
These are four of the most popular open source relational databases available to enterprises with a comparison chart to help you find the best option to fit your data. Continue Reading
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07 Jan 2021
Quest Software adds data governance and DataOps with Erwin
With new data modeling, catalog and governance technology from an acquisition, Quest looks to build a broader data platform to help organizations optimize and benefit from data. Continue Reading
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06 Jan 2021
Dremio raises $135M to boost data lake transformation effort
The CEO of Dremio outlines why the vendor is growing as organizations increasingly rely on cloud data storage to fuel business intelligence and analytics. Continue Reading
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06 Jan 2021
How Alation builds on data catalog for data intelligence
Aaron Kalb, co-founder and Chief Data and Analytics Officer (CDAO) of Alation, provides insight into the evolution of his company's technology to embrace data governance that enables data intelligence for organizations to fully benefit from their data assets. Continue Reading
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30 Dec 2020
What FAIR data management means for your enterprise
The FAIR principles were made to promote the sharing of data in the research field, but their guidance can help organizations in other industries improve their own data practices. Continue Reading
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29 Dec 2020
Emerging data management trends to watch in 2021
A number of nascent efforts across the enterprise data landscape became manifest in 2020 that are likely to become larger trends into 2021, including the data lakehouse, Iceberg and Presto. Continue Reading
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29 Dec 2020
Data lineage documentation imperative to data quality
Understanding the detailed journey of data elements throughout the data pipeline can help an enterprise maintain data quality and improve trustworthiness. Continue Reading
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28 Dec 2020
ChaosSearch looks to bring order to data lakes
Data lakes are like junk drawers in the sky, but new tech from ChaosSearch organizes the mess and makes it searchable. Here, CEO Ed Walsh shares the details and what's next in 2021. Continue Reading
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23 Dec 2020
New data warehouse schema design benefits business users
The Unified Star Schema is a revolution in data warehouse schema design. Learn the benefits of this new architecture and read an excerpt from a new book about it. Continue Reading
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22 Dec 2020
Ascend aims to ease data ingestion with low-code approach
Data platform vendor Ascend has announced a new low-code approach to building out data pipelines on cloud data lakes to accelerate analysis and insights. Continue Reading
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21 Dec 2020
Data warehouse vs. data lake: Key differences
Data warehouses and data lakes are both data repositories common in the enterprise, but what are the main differences between the two and which is best for your data? Continue Reading
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Guest Post
17 Dec 2020
Apache Pulsar vs. Kafka and other data processing technologies
David Kjerrumgaard looks at how the distributed messaging platform Apache Pulsar handles storage compared to Apache Kafka and other data processing technologies. Continue Reading
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16 Dec 2020
Data anonymization best practices protect sensitive data
See how data anonymization best practices can help your organization protect sensitive data and those who could be at risk if that data identified them. Continue Reading
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15 Dec 2020
AWS expands cloud databases with data virtualization
At AWS re:invent 2020 the public cloud giant unveiled enhancements to its database and analytics portfolio, including the Babelfish project for migrating from SQL Server to PostgreSQL. Continue Reading
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15 Dec 2020
Cloud data warehouse Firebolt secures $37 million at launch
Firebolt, a new challenger to established cloud data storage vendors including Microsoft and Google, launched recently after securing $37 million in financing. Continue Reading
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11 Dec 2020
Stargate API brings GraphQL to Cassandra database
DataStax has integrated the open source Stargate API 1.0 release into its Astra DBaaS platform, bringing GraphQL to the Apache Cassandra database. Continue Reading
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10 Dec 2020
The top 6 use cases for a data fabric architecture
Enterprise data fabric adoption has been on the rise as a way to ensure access and data sharing in a distributed environment. Here are the top use cases for data fabrics. Continue Reading
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10 Dec 2020
Varada accelerates data virtualization with Presto
The new Varada Data Platform combines data virtualization with the open source Presto SQL query engine to help enable rapid searches on cloud data lakes. Continue Reading
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08 Dec 2020
SingleStore raises $80M for distributed SQL database
Raj Verma, CEO of SingleStore, explains why the vendor rebranded from MemSQL and how its platform is more than just an in-memory database, but is a general-purpose database. Continue Reading
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04 Dec 2020
Collibra grows enterprise data governance for the cloud
Collibra CEO discusses the importance of data governance for enterprises and how to tie data governance to business terminology to go beyond simply controlling data. Continue Reading
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02 Dec 2020
Oracle MySQL Database Service integrates analytics engine
The enterprise edition of the MySQL database is being enhanced on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to enable users to run analytics queries on the same system as transactional queries. Continue Reading
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02 Dec 2020
Top 5 U.S. open data use cases from federal data sets
The U.S. government has made data sets from many federal agencies available for public access to use and analyze. Check out some of the ways that data is being used. Continue Reading
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Quiz
01 Dec 2020
Quiz on MongoDB 4 new features and database updates
Check out this excerpt from the new book Learn MongoDB 4.x from Packt Publishing, then quiz yourself on new updates and features to the database. Continue Reading
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30 Nov 2020
MongoDB Atlas Online Archive brings data tiering to DBaaS
MongoDB's online archive service gives organizations the ability to automatically archive data to lower-cost storage, while still enabling the data to be queried. Continue Reading
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25 Nov 2020
Ataccama automates data governance with Gen2 platform update
Data management vendor Ataccama adds new automation features to its Gen2 platform to help organizations automatically discover metadata and build an accurate business glossary for data. Continue Reading
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24 Nov 2020
IBM to deliver refurbished Db2 for the AI and cloud era
IBM has a tuned-up version of Db2 planned, featuring a handful of AI and machine learning capabilities to make it easier for users to send and manage Db2 data across clouds. Continue Reading
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23 Nov 2020
Fauna improves data API collaboration and security
A database company founded by former Twitter engineers is pushing forward its vision of a way to consume database as a service using its own Fauna Query Language. Continue Reading
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20 Nov 2020
Yellowbrick data warehouse update boosts workload management
Hybrid cloud data warehouse vendor updates platform with self-healing cluster capabilities and a "penalty box" feature to improve workload management. Continue Reading
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20 Nov 2020
Maintaining data integrity key for data quality
Maintaining data integrity through improved communication and data literacy is paramount for organizations in the enterprise seeking to ensure data quality and trust. Continue Reading
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19 Nov 2020
Why understanding data structures is so important to coders
Jay Wengrow talks about how his new book on data structures and algorithms and considerations for making your choices as efficient as possible. Continue Reading
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18 Nov 2020
DataStax optimizes Cassandra for Kubernetes with K8ssandra
The data management vendor is combining monitoring tools, helm charts and an operator to improve Cassandra database deployment and management for cloud-native Kubernetes environments. Continue Reading
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17 Nov 2020
Snowflake builds out data cloud with Snowpark
Snowflake is continuing to grow the capabilities of its cloud architecture with new developer and security capabilities that aim to help users optimize information. Continue Reading
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17 Nov 2020
Cockroach adds geospatial data to cloud-native database
Cockroach Labs is updating its namesake database platform with new features that improve security and performance, as well as getting an open source Pebble storage engine. Continue Reading
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13 Nov 2020
Data protection officer responsibilities and role importance
The data protection officer title has been growing over the last few years, and organizations are still working to grasp the full responsibilities of the role. Continue Reading
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12 Nov 2020
AWS Glue DataBrew a new no-code data preparation tool
AWS Glue DataBrew is a new feature that will enable users to extract, transmit and load data to get it ready for analysis without having to write code. Continue Reading
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12 Nov 2020
Databricks builds out SQL Analytics for data lakehouse
Databricks is building out its lakehouse platform with a new SQL Analytics service that will make it easier to run SQL queries with better visualization in the cloud. Continue Reading
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12 Nov 2020
Google brings wizard approach to cloud database migration
Google Cloud's top database executive details the tech giant's new tool for enterprises to move databases to the cloud, as the need has accelerated in the coronavirus pandemic era. Continue Reading
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12 Nov 2020
New Yugabyte release boosts distributed SQL database security
Yugabyte now has row-level geo-partitioning for its open source distributed SQL database, enhanced multi-region features and several new features to improve security. Continue Reading
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03 Nov 2020
Informatica update improves cloud data management
Informatica is out with its fall 2020 update, integrating capabilities from its July acquisition of Compact Solutions that advance its enterprise data catalog. Continue Reading
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02 Nov 2020
Healthcare data management challenges hold back adoption
The healthcare industry has had difficulty adopting data management best practices, but a few organizations have tackled the challenges successfully. Continue Reading
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30 Oct 2020
Dremio speeds up cloud data lakes for business intelligence
The Dremio fall 2020 update brings new performance to the vendor's cloud data lake engine technology, including Apache Arrow-based caching and runtime filtering. Continue Reading
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29 Oct 2020
Cazena launches Instant AWS Cloud Data Lake service
Cazena advanced its cloud data platform with an integrated service that helps organizations to more quickly benefit from a cloud data lake running on AWS. Continue Reading
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27 Oct 2020
Rockset raises $40M for real-time indexing database
The CEO and co-founder of real-time indexing database vendor details the evolution of the company from its origins in the open source RocksDB project to future development projects. Continue Reading
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20 Oct 2020
MongoDB Atlas now enables multi-cloud database clusters
Multi-cloud data portability comes to MongoDB Atlas with a new capability that will enable users to run a database application across multiple clouds simultaneously. Continue Reading
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16 Oct 2020
How AI data privacy can help your enterprise
Enterprises benefit in many ways from AI data privacy tools that reduce the need for manual efforts from data professionals. Read on for top use cases for the growing technology. Continue Reading
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16 Oct 2020
The new normal for enterprise data governance
Mastercard data exec highlights the foundational role of enterprise data governance during the pandemic era with more people working from home and new demands on businesses. Continue Reading
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15 Oct 2020
Oracle accelerates Exadata database cloud service
More powerful server hardware is coming to the Exadata database service, bringing increased scalability and throughput for Oracle's database and analytics workloads. Continue Reading
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14 Oct 2020
Idera targets cloud data lake market with Qubole acquisition
Qubole joins the Idera Inc. group of software companies, bringing data pipeline capabilities into the group to target customers that need more cloud data storage. Continue Reading
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13 Oct 2020
Upsolver advances open cloud data lake, data pipeline efforts
Upsolver enhanced its data preparation platform to transform data lake content into a data lakehouse structure that enables data queries and analysis. Continue Reading
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12 Oct 2020
NewSQL databases: The bridge between SQL and NoSQL
NewSQL databases attempt to provide enterprises with the top benefits of both relational and NoSQL databases on one platform. Here's a look at how NewSQL can benefit enterprises. Continue Reading
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09 Oct 2020
Nutanix brings database management into Era 2.0
Nutanix is now looking beyond just on-premises hardware and private clouds to help its users deploy and manage data based across hybrid cloud deployments. Continue Reading
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08 Oct 2020
Denodo Platform 8.0 expands data virtualization features
The updated platform from Denodo looks to help organizations via enhanced features that connect and query disparate sources of data across different environments. Continue Reading
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07 Oct 2020
SODA Foundation improves Open Data Framework
An open source data management group enhanced its Open Data Framework with the Greenland 1.1 update, improving multi-cloud file support and expanding connectivity to data storage options. Continue Reading
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Feature
06 Oct 2020
Synthetic data in healthcare advances patient analytics
Learn how synthetic data in healthcare can be beneficial across the board. Plus, get a sneak peek at a new book on synthetic data generation from O'Reilly Media. Continue Reading
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02 Oct 2020
Amazon Timestream time series database generally available
AWS continues to grow its portfolio of cloud database services, as the Amazon Timestream database emerges out of preview to help serve the growing market demand for time series databases. Continue Reading
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01 Oct 2020
PostgreSQL 13 advances popular open source database
The open source database project has its first major milestone release of 2020, bringing users accelerated data query performance and optimizations to improve overall operations. Continue Reading
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29 Sep 2020
Cloudera adds data engineering capability to enable DataOps
Big data vendor Cloudera is looking to help data engineers use its platform with a new service that brings more power and management to running Spark for building data pipelines. Continue Reading
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Feature
28 Sep 2020
3 growing applications of AI in data management
There are plenty of ways AI can augment data professionals throughout the data pipeline, from sifting through large data sets for duplicates to easing the preparation process. Continue Reading