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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.

By Sean Kerner • Feb. 4, 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.

By Joseph Carew • Feb. 4, 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.

By Sean Kerner • Feb. 3, 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.

By Sean Kerner • Feb. 2, 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.

By Sean Kerner • Feb. 1, 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.

By Sankul Seth • Jan. 29, 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.

By Sean Kerner • Jan. 29, 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.

By Joseph Carew • Jan. 28, 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.

By Sean Kerner • Jan. 27, 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.

By Eric Avidon • Jan. 27, 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.

By George Lawton • Jan. 22, 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.

By Sean Kerner • Jan. 21, 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.

By George Lawton • Jan. 21, 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.

By Sean Kerner • Jan. 20, 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.

By Sean Kerner • Jan. 15, 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.

By Sean Kerner • Jan. 15, 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.

By Sean Kerner • Jan. 13, 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.

By Sean Kerner • Jan. 12, 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.

By Sean Kerner • Jan. 8, 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.

By Joseph Carew • Jan. 7, 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.

By Sean Kerner • Jan. 7, 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.

By Sean Kerner • Jan. 6, 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.

By Sean Kerner • Jan. 6, 2021

What is feature engineering?

Feature engineering is the process that takes raw data and transforms it into features that can be used to create a predictive model using machine learning or statistical modeling, such as deep learning.

By Linda Rosencrance • Jan. 4, 2021

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.

By Joseph Carew • Dec. 30, 2020