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03 Mar 2023
What are the 4 different types of blockchain technology?
Public, private, hybrid or consortium, each blockchain network has distinct pluses and minuses that largely drive its ideal uses -- and will determine which one is best for you. Continue Reading
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03 Mar 2023
Top 9 blockchain platforms to consider in 2023
Get the lowdown on the major features, differentiators, strengths and weaknesses of the blockchain platforms getting the most buzz -- and real-world deployments. Continue Reading
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10 Feb 2022
Oracle Autonomous cloud database gains MongoDB API support
The tech giant continues to build out its multimodel database capabilities with the general availability of a new API for widely used MongoDB applications. Continue Reading
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10 Feb 2022
ScyllaDB 5.0 set to advance NoSQL database capabilities
At Scylla Summit 2022, the open source NoSQL database vendor introduced upcoming services including a DBaaS as well as a new platform release, and a user outlined its application. Continue Reading
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09 Feb 2022
Reverse ETL vendor Census raises $60M
Census raises new money as the vendor ramps up its operations to help organizations get data from data warehouses to power large-scale business applications. Continue Reading
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09 Feb 2022
Starburst brings in $250M to advance data mesh aspirations
The vendor continues on its path toward an initial public offering, as demand for its open source Trino-based data lake query engine platform grows. Continue Reading
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07 Feb 2022
Analytics database vendor Exasol launches DBaaS on AWS
The OLAP database vendor now has a new cloud service model that provides users with a managed instance for data analysis, business intelligence and machine learning. Continue Reading
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07 Feb 2022
How big data collection works: Process, challenges, techniques
Taming large amounts of data from multiple sources and deriving the greatest value to ensure trusted business decisions hinge on a foolproof system for collecting big data. Continue Reading
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02 Feb 2022
Self-service data preparation: What it is and how it helps users
Using self-service tools to properly prepare data simplifies analytics and visualization tasks for business users and speeds complex modeling processes for data scientists. Continue Reading
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02 Feb 2022
Onehouse emerges with managed Apache Hudi data lake service
One of the original creators of the Hudi project at Uber has launched a new company set to bring a managed service to market to operationalize cloud data lakes. Continue Reading
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01 Feb 2022
Open source database vendor MariaDB set for IPO
As cloud database-as-a-service demand grows, the open source-based relational database vendor is looking to go public, a decade after it was first forked from the MySQL database. Continue Reading
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27 Jan 2022
Google scales up Cloud Bigtable NoSQL database
Automated scalability is a key theme for the latest set of update features that Google is landing in its cloud managed NoSQL database service, providing users with more capacity. Continue Reading
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27 Jan 2022
Confluent Kafka connects apps on new Dish 5G network
Streaming data is at the foundation of a new smart 5G service from Dish Network, where enterprises build applications that directly benefit and customize the network platform. Continue Reading
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26 Jan 2022
NLP and AI boost the automated data warehouse
Businesses are working to automate as many elements of their data warehouses as they can through nascent tools like augmented analytics and natural language processing. Continue Reading
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26 Jan 2022
Apache Kafka 3.1 opens up data streaming for analytics
The latest release of open source Kafka data streaming technology brings a series of new features that provide users with usability improvements for real-time data queries. Continue Reading
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25 Jan 2022
Dremio raises $160M for cloud data lake platform technology
The vendor is raising new money as demand for cloud data platform technology continues to grow as enterprises look to improve business intelligence and data analytics. Continue Reading
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25 Jan 2022
Data access key to Regeneron's innovation efforts
After developing a COVID-19 treatment in mere months, Regeneron adopted a data catalog and is developing a data governance framework to speed up its drug development pipeline. Continue Reading
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21 Jan 2022
Apache Hop data orchestration hits open source milestone
The open source technology moves beyond its roots to enable a full data platform as data moves from one source to another for operations, business intelligence and analytics. Continue Reading
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21 Jan 2022
MongoDB 5.2 database improves time series capabilities
The vendor is improving on capabilities introduced in MongoDB 5.0 with an update that continues the company's push to support operational and analytics workloads. Continue Reading
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20 Jan 2022
Hudi powering data lake efforts at Walmart and Disney+ Hotstar
An open source cloud data lake platform is finding adoption at large organizations including Uber, Walmart and Disney+ Hotstar as the demands of data scale grow. Continue Reading
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20 Jan 2022
Coalesce launches with data transformation platform
The CEO and co-founder of Coalesce gives insight into the startup's mission and the challenges organizations face with transforming data so that it's useful for data analysts. Continue Reading
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19 Jan 2022
Confluent Cloud Q1 2022 update boosts event data streaming
The event streaming vendor is expanding its cloud platform with schema linking, data warehouse connectors and a load metrics API to improve scale and performance. 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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13 Jan 2022
Observable raises $35.6M for data collaboration platform
After spending 15 years at Google, Melody Meckfessel brought at least one key lesson to her data visualization startup Observable: 'no grumpy developers.' Continue Reading
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11 Jan 2022
'Building the Data Lakehouse' explores next-gen architecture
This book excerpt by 'father of the data warehouse' Bill Inmon and experts Mary Levins and Ranjeet Srivastava explores the latest methods for wrangling data into usable intel. Continue Reading
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10 Jan 2022
Anomalo brings data quality platform to Snowflake
Elliot Shmukler, co-founder and CEO of Anomalo, details how he was inspired to build his data startup after a critical data failure while he was working at Instacart. Continue Reading
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05 Jan 2022
10 big data challenges and how to address them
Bringing a big data initiative to fruition requires an array of data skills and best practices. Here are 10 big data challenges enterprises must be ready for. Continue Reading
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05 Jan 2022
Western Union looks to improve data quality with Talend
Thomas Mazzaferro, chief data officer at Western Union, outlines the financial services company's approach to cloud data migration and how Talend fits into the data architecture. Continue Reading
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30 Dec 2021
NoSQL database types explained: Graph
NoSQL graph databases focus on the relationships between pieces of data. Two common frameworks bring different advantages and disadvantages over other NoSQL database types. Continue Reading
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30 Dec 2021
Top 5 elements needed for a successful data warehouse
While conventional data warehouses may struggle to keep up with growing volumes of data, these five elements best give the ability to tap into valuable BI. Continue Reading
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30 Dec 2021
Open source vs. proprietary database management
Open source and cloud data management are becoming popular options to streamline information data management processes. Also, examine the benefits of on-site, proprietary strategies. Continue Reading
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30 Dec 2021
5 challenges IT faces using open source data management
There are a variety of open source challenges for data management software, including lack of real-time BI access, miscalculating costs and underestimating the resources required. Continue Reading
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17 Dec 2021
Data forecast for 2022: Data quality and cloud convergence
Expect data quality to be a top area of investment and activity next year as the need to trust data for operations, insight and machine learning will only continue to grow. Continue Reading
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16 Dec 2021
Bigeye brings new visibility to data observability
The startup continues to build out its cloud platform that enables data engineers to identify and remediate data pipeline quality and availability problems. Continue Reading
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16 Dec 2021
Data management trends in 2021: More money, more cloud
In 2021, interest in the cloud data lakehouse model helped to propel multiple vendors forward as new serverless database-as-a-service systems emerged as well. Continue Reading
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16 Dec 2021
Cockroach Labs raises $278M for distributed SQL database
The cloud database vendor has appealed to enterprises with its data capabilities and continues to attract investors as the market opportunity expands. Continue Reading
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13 Dec 2021
SnapLogic raises $165M to fund AI data integration
The data integration vendor's fundraising success shows the growth the iPaaS and RPA markets have seen in recent years, with a steady pace of investment and acquisitions. Continue Reading
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10 Dec 2021
Vendia expands serverless blockchain data sharing platform
The Vendia Share service gets new features that enable more database-type capabilities, alongside smart contracts to support complex business rules. Continue Reading
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09 Dec 2021
Why Criteo chose Aerospike real-time database
Criteo is in the process of migrating to Aerospike Database to reduce the number of servers it needs to power its global advertising marketplace from 5,000 to 600. Continue Reading
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08 Dec 2021
Calyptia spurs observability data with Fluent Bit Enterprise
Collecting first-mile log data that is as close to the source as possible is the open source startup's goal as it builds out new commercial services. Continue Reading
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06 Dec 2021
LogDNA raises $50M for observability data
The LogDNA CEO discusses challenges and the need for organizations to collect and analyze log data to enable operations, DevOps and security applications. Continue Reading
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03 Dec 2021
AWS cloud database users detail applications
AWS has more than one database to choose from, as the cloud provider aims to provide users like eHealth and HBO Max with technologies to meet different use cases. Continue Reading
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01 Dec 2021
AWS aims to ease cloud database management and migration
The tech giant is looking to help its users to better migrate to, manage and operate cloud databases with a series of new data management product releases and updates. Continue Reading
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30 Nov 2021
AWS Lake Formation advances cloud data lake control
AWS added new features to its cloud data lake service, featuring Governed Tables to manage consistency of data and row-level access control for security. Continue Reading
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23 Nov 2021
American Airlines flies its data warehouse to the cloud
The pandemic hit American Airlines hard, but its management took an optimistic view, seeing at as an opportunity to use data more effectively to improve operations. Continue Reading
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19 Nov 2021
LogicMonitor introduces centralized log management platform
The data observability platform vendor's new platform enables enterprises to use AIOps and automation to find anomalies with their IT system, report them and head off widespread problems. Continue Reading
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19 Nov 2021
Starburst Enterprise brings Apache Iceberg to data lakehouse
A new Starburst Enterprise release brings in new capabilities to help organizations use the Trino SQL query engine to analyze data stored on premises and in the cloud. Continue Reading
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17 Nov 2021
Hightouch raises $40M for reverse ETL data platform
Co-founder Kashish Gupta provides insight into the data challenges that led Hightouch to develop a new approach to getting data out of data warehouses and into operational tools. Continue Reading
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16 Nov 2021
CockroachDB update scales distributed SQL database
The latest database release from Cockroach Labs focuses on providing optimized capabilities for large deployments that can handle up to a petabyte of data. Continue Reading
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16 Nov 2021
Snowflake grows cloud data platform with unstructured data
The cloud data vendor's winter release updates its data platform with new capabilities to enable organizations to query and manage more data types across different environments. Continue Reading
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16 Nov 2021
Alluxio accelerates data orchestration, raises $50M
Connecting disparate sources of data for analytics and machine learning gets faster in the vendor's latest platform update, released alongside a Series C funding round. Continue Reading
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12 Nov 2021
GraphQL use grows as organizations build out a graph layer
Apollo GraphQL is updating its graph federation capabilities as its users outline how they are using the technology to enable data and service delivery to users. Continue Reading
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11 Nov 2021
Informatica Cloud Data Marketplace brings data to business users
Fresh off its IPO, the data management vendor continues to expand its Intelligent Data Management Cloud services to enable organizations to effectively use data. Continue Reading
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11 Nov 2021
Business shift to a data monetization strategy elevates CDOs
As their focus dramatically swings from compliance issues to data monetization, chief data officers are on track to take their rightful place among C-level executives, but slowly. Continue Reading
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09 Nov 2021
Confluent Platform 7 extends event data streaming
The event data streaming vendor builds out hybrid event streaming deployment capabilities that can help organizations with data in the cloud and on premises. Continue Reading
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09 Nov 2021
Datafold raises $20M for data reliability engineering
Datafold's founder and CEO details the data observability challenges the startup is looking to address with its suite of data tools that provide visibility into data pipelines. Continue Reading
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08 Nov 2021
Deephaven extends real-time streaming data platform
Deephaven Data Labs has built a platform financial services organizations use to operationalize real-time data for queries and historical reporting of financial and client data. Continue Reading
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08 Nov 2021
Instaclustr open sources Shotover data layer proxy
The DBaaS vendor looks to enable developers to control and manage the flow of data from one data service to another with open source Shotover system. Continue Reading
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05 Nov 2021
Reltio advances master data management with $120M fund raise
Reltio now has a valuation of $1.7 billion as it raises new funding to help grow its cloud connected data platform to enable business processes and operations. Continue Reading
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03 Nov 2021
Monte Carlo boosts data pipeline observability insights
The startup continues to build out its namesake platform with new capabilities to provide organizations with visibility into how and where data pipelines are being used. Continue Reading
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03 Nov 2021
NoSQL database types explained: Document-based databases
NoSQL document-based databases store information in documents with specific keys, similar to a key-value store, but with different benefits and disadvantages. Continue Reading
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03 Nov 2021
QuestDB grows time series database with $12M funding round
QuestDB co-founder and CEO details the use cases for the database platform and explains why the vendor is now raising money to grow the technology and market. Continue Reading
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02 Nov 2021
Microsoft advances Cosmos DB and previews SQL Server 2022
Microsoft is continuing to build out its cloud data services capabilities, including connecting SQL Service with data governance and analytics functions running in Azure. Continue Reading
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02 Nov 2021
EDB launches BigAnimal PostgreSQL cloud database service
The database vendor is ramping up its cloud efforts with the initial release of its platform on Microsoft Azure, with plans for other public cloud providers in the coming months. Continue Reading
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29 Oct 2021
InfluxDB users detail time series database use cases
InfluxData sees a lot of potential for its InfluxDB open source database, as the need to instrument and collect data from both physical and virtual sources continues to grow. Continue Reading
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28 Oct 2021
Yugabyte raises $188M to grow distributed SQL database
With support for both PostgreSQL and Cassandra, Yugabyte is scaling up to enabled distributed transactions with its open source-based technology platform. Continue Reading
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27 Oct 2021
Informatica goes public again as data management grows
Informatica has transformed in recent years from an on-premises software vendor to a SaaS-based subscription model in the cloud as new services for data have emerged. Continue Reading
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25 Oct 2021
Trino set to advance open source SQL query performance
The rebranding of PrestoSQL to Trino has been a boon to the open source effort, as new capabilities and adoption of the query technology are growing in 2021. Continue Reading
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22 Oct 2021
CockroachDB introduces Serverless as a cloud database option
The database vendor added a serverless option for cloud database-as-a-service deployments. Aimed at developers, the serverless model follows a cloud-native development trend. Continue Reading
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21 Oct 2021
SolarWinds expands DataOps portfolio with Database Mapper
A year after acquiring SentryOne, the IT management software vendor is out with updated tools to help organizations better understand where data came from and where it is going. Continue Reading
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20 Oct 2021
Aiven raises new funding as cloud data service demand grows
The open source cloud database-as-a-service platform vendor is seeing continued demand for Kafka as organizations increasingly need to use real-time data. Continue Reading
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19 Oct 2021
The challenges of cloud data management
Cloud platforms are expanding rapidly, causing organizations to face new cloud management challenges keeping pace with cloud data management advancements. Continue Reading
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19 Oct 2021
Couchbase Capella brings new managed DBaaS capabilities
The NoSQL database vendor launched a DBaaS platform providing a fully managed cloud database aimed at users who don't want to manage their own resources. Continue Reading
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14 Oct 2021
Alation looks to boost data intelligence with Lyngo Analytics
Fresh off a big funding round, Alation seeks to enable users to benefit from data catalogs with technology that will translate natural language queries into SQL. Continue Reading
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12 Oct 2021
Google expands Cloud Spanner database with PostgreSQL
A year after it was first introduced, Google's BigQuery Omni multi-cloud data platform is now generally available as Google continues to push its data agenda in the cloud. Continue Reading
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07 Oct 2021
How DataOps can improve healthcare outcomes
DataOps is more than just DevOps for data. It's a set of data orchestration, operations and management tools and principles that help organizations improve data pipelines. Continue Reading
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06 Oct 2021
ArangoDB advances graph database fortunes with new funding
Claudius Weinberger, co-founder and CEO of ArangoDB, discusses why the vendor is raising money to meet the growing demand for graph database technology. Continue Reading
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30 Sep 2021
Ascend extends flex-code data connectors
The data platform vendor looks to enable organizations to more easily read and write data from different data sources with a new low-code connector framework. Continue Reading
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30 Sep 2021
PostgreSQL 14 improves open source database performance
The open source database has extended its JSON unstructured data support and enhanced its stored procedures capabilities to give users more database power. Continue Reading
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28 Sep 2021
HPE intros GreenLake data lakehouse fabric for analytics
HPE taps multiple open source technologies, including Kubernetes, Apache Spark and Delta Lake, for developing new data fabric services on its GreenLake cloud platform. Continue Reading
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22 Sep 2021
The benefits and pitfalls of cloud-based data management systems
Learn the benefits of cloud-based data management systems, common pitfalls and strategies when considering varying data levels and industry needs. Continue Reading
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22 Sep 2021
NoSQL database types explained: Column-oriented databases
Learn about the uses of column-oriented databases and the large data model, data warehouses and high-performance querying benefits the NoSQL database brings to organizations. Continue Reading
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21 Sep 2021
Nutanix boosts data management services in the cloud
Nutanix is aiming to make it easier to manage, deploy and protect data and databases across hybrid and multi-cloud environments with a series of product updates. Continue Reading
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15 Sep 2021
Kafka streaming data gets governance from Confluent
Apache Kafka event streaming from Confluent helps online grocery provider Instacart deliver milk to customers when they need it, by helping to power real-time inventory updates. Continue Reading
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15 Sep 2021
StreamNative raises $23M for Apache Pulsar data streaming
Leading vendor behind the open source event streaming project raised new funds to help build out a cloud platform for event data and message streaming. Continue Reading
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14 Sep 2021
Snowflake aims at financial services with data cloud
Snowflake launches its new Data Cloud offering as it continues to expand the range of applications and capabilities for its customers, including Western Union and Capital One. Continue Reading
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14 Sep 2021
Alation boosts platform with new data governance application
The new Alation service provides a series of capabilities to improve governance, including a centralized dashboard and data steward workbench for managing workflow. Continue Reading
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13 Sep 2021
Materialize brings streaming SQL database to the cloud
To date, streaming database startup Materialize has not had a managed cloud service -- but that's changing, with a preview of the company's cloud DBaaS platform. Continue Reading
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09 Sep 2021
How VMware's CDO views data management
The chief data officer of the virtualization vendor details her views on the increasing challenges of dealing with growing volumes of data and the critical importance of data governance. Continue Reading
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02 Sep 2021
How to choose exactly the right data story for your audience
A data practitioner has two jobs: tell the right data story and in the right way to win over project stakeholders, data expert Larry Burns says in his latest book. Continue Reading
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31 Aug 2021
Databricks raises $1.6B more to boost data lakehouse
Investors are super confident in the growth potential for cloud data management and analytics as the impact of the Snowflake IPO continues to ripple through the industry. Continue Reading
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31 Aug 2021
Quiz: Test your understanding of the Hadoop ecosystem
This quiz will test your knowledge of Hadoops basics including framework, capabilities and related technologies. Continue Reading
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31 Aug 2021
Apache Drill improves big data SQL query engine
Open source SQL query engine gets new release that will expand the number of data sources that can be queried, including Elasticsearch, Splunk and Apache Cassandra. Continue Reading
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27 Aug 2021
Rockset advances real-time streaming data SQL queries
Rockset previews new features in its cloud database platform to help organizations more easily use real-time data to support data analytics and business intelligence. Continue Reading
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25 Aug 2021
Cribl brings in $200M to advance data lake observability
Cribl looks to grow its LogStream platform capabilities with new funding that will help the vendor grow operations and advance its data lake visibility technology. Continue Reading
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24 Aug 2021
6 strategies to tap into data warehouse BI
Data warehouse BI benefits include data storage, summarization and transformation and can be unlocked with these six strategies leveraging cloud architectures. Continue Reading
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20 Aug 2021
With Amazon MemoryDB, AWS takes aim at Redis in the cloud
The tech giant is offering its users a new managed Redis-compatible in-memory database platform that will compete against services from Redis, Google and Microsoft. Continue Reading
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19 Aug 2021
Hitachi Vantara expands Lumada DataOps suite
Hitachi Vantara integrated its data management technologies into a new product suite intended to help organizations with data operations. Data governance is coming next. Continue Reading
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17 Aug 2021
NoSQL database types explained: Key-value store
Learn about the benefits and detriments of utilizing a key-value store -- a simply designed NoSQL database that can potentially improve data processing speeds and scalability. Continue Reading
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17 Aug 2021
Apollo GraphQL raises $130M to enable graph layer
The CEO and co-founder of a graph layer vendor provides insight into the growing need for the graph layer as a data technology to help connect the front end to the back end. Continue Reading
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17 Aug 2021
Bill Inmon's data warehouse approach tackles text analysis
Learn the fine points of a concept at the heart of 'The Textual Warehouse' a new book that aims to help organizations profit through textual analysis. Continue Reading
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17 Aug 2021
Confluent builds out Kafka event streaming platform
Confluent aims to make it easier for users to query data in motion coming from Apache Kafka, with the ksqlDB pull query capability in its cloud platform update. Continue Reading