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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.

By Sean Kerner • May 26, 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.

By Sean Kerner • May 25, 2022

How to evaluate and optimize data warehouse performance

Organizations build data warehouses to satisfy their information management needs. Data warehouse optimization can help ensure that these warehouses achieve their full potential.

By Chris Foot • May 24, 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.

By Sean Kerner • May 24, 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.

By Sean Kerner • May 24, 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.

By Sean Kerner • May 18, 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.

By Sean Kerner • May 17, 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.

By Sean Kerner • May 17, 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.

By Donald Farmer • May 13, 2022

Google introduces AlloyDB PostgreSQL-based cloud database

The tech giant is growing its cloud database portfolio with a new service that add analytics query acceleration to and boosts performance of the PostgreSQL database.

By Sean Kerner • May 11, 2022

Understanding the benefits of a data quality strategy

A data quality strategy can improve an organization's ability to generate value from data, but determining quality depends on the processes and use cases.

By George Lawton • May 11, 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.

By Sean Kerner • May 11, 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.

By Sean Kerner • May 10, 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.

By Sean Kerner • May 10, 2022

Best practices and pitfalls of the data pipeline process

Developing an effective data pipeline process is a key step for organizations to manage data sources, flow and quality. A data pipeline also ensures approved data access.

By George Lawton • May 9, 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.

By Sean Kerner • May 4, 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.

By Sean Kerner • May 4, 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.

By Sean Kerner • April 28, 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.

By Sean Kerner • April 28, 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.

By Sean Kerner • April 26, 2022

3 considerations for a data compliance management strategy

A data compliance management strategy is key for organizations to protect data the right way. Different positions have responsibility to ensure industry regulations are met.

By Jerald Murphy • April 22, 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.

By Sean Kerner • April 21, 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.

By Sean Kerner • April 20, 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.

By Sean Kerner • April 19, 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.

By Rahul Awati • April 14, 2022