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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.
By Sean Kerner • Feb. 9, 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.
By Sean Kerner • Feb. 7, 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.
By Donald Farmer • Feb. 2, 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.
By Sean Kerner • Feb. 2, 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.
By Sean Kerner • Feb. 1, 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.
By Sean Kerner • Jan. 27, 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.
By Sean Kerner • Jan. 27, 2022 -
Maximizing the potential of the data warehouse
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.
By Lisa Morgan • Jan. 26, 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.
By Sean Kerner • Jan. 26, 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.
By Sean Kerner • Jan. 25, 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.
By Eric Avidon • Jan. 25, 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.
By Sean Kerner • Jan. 21, 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.
By Sean Kerner • Jan. 21, 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.
By Sean Kerner • Jan. 20, 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.
By Sean Kerner • Jan. 20, 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.
By Sean Kerner • Jan. 19, 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.
By Sean Kerner • Jan. 18, 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.'
By Sean Kerner • Jan. 13, 2022 -
sharding
Sharding is a type of database partitioning that separates large databases into smaller, faster, more easily managed parts.
By Rahul Awati, James Denman • Jan. 12, 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.
By Technics Publications • Jan. 11, 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.
By Sean Kerner • Jan. 10, 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.
By Sean Kerner • Jan. 5, 2022 -
Expert Advice // NoSQL database types explained
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.
By Alex Williams • Dec. 31, 2021 -
Expert Advice // Maximizing the potential of the data warehouse
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.
By Maria Korolov • Dec. 30, 2021 -
Expert Advice
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.
By Mary Pratt • Dec. 30, 2021