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6 best practices on data governance for big data environments

Efforts to govern big data must corral a mix of structured and unstructured data. That's a challenge for most organizations. These six action items will help.

By George Lawton • Feb. 10, 2020

Incorta improves direct data mapping for data lakes

Bringing disparate sets of data into data lakes for data analytics hasn't always been easy. Incorta tries to do it with its new 4.6 platform update.

By Sean Kerner • Feb. 10, 2020

NoSQL database comparison to help you choose the right store

With so many NoSQL databases to choose from, how can you tell which is best for your data set? Check out this comparison of some of the most popular NoSQL databases.

By Kara Joyce • Feb. 10, 2020

Couchbase Cloud takes a new approach to database delivery

Open source NoSQL database vendor Couchbase enters the cloud database market with a database as a service that lets users choose which public cloud vendor they want to use.

By Sean Kerner • Feb. 5, 2020

Neo4j 4.0 major update boosts graph database security, scalability

Major milestone release of open source graph database platform enhances security with controls to limit the risk of data traversal and add multi-database support.

By Sean Kerner • Feb. 4, 2020

Pepperdata Query Spotlight provides insight into data queries

New Query Spotlight tool looks to provide visibility across a data analysis cluster into how a query performs over time and why it might have degraded performance.

By Sean Kerner • Feb. 3, 2020

Informatica data management sets a new direction

Five years after going private, Informatica has a new CEO and an updated data platform with new data management capabilities to better enable business users.

By Sean Kerner • Jan. 28, 2020

Should you host your data lake in the cloud?

On premises or in the cloud: What's the better place for your data lake? Here are some things to consider before deciding where to deploy a big data environment.

By Andy Hayler • Jan. 28, 2020

What is Extract, Load, Transform (ELT)?

Extract, Load, Transform (ELT) is a data integration process for transferring raw data from a source server to a data system (such as a data warehouse or data lake) on a target server and then preparing the information for downstream uses.

By Craig Mullins • Jan. 24, 2020

Hitachi Vantara acquires data catalog vendor Waterline Data

With the acquisition of Waterline Data, Hitachi Vantara is bringing new data catalog capabilities that will expand the Lumada Data Services and DataOps portfolio.

By Sean Kerner • Jan. 23, 2020

New Confluent Platform release boosts event streaming quality

Based on the open-source Kafka event streaming platform, the Confluent Platform 5.4 update adds new capabilities to help meet enterprise data management requirements.

By Sean Kerner • Jan. 22, 2020

Where InfluxDB time series database is going

Users need more than SQL for querying databases, according to Paul Dix, co-founder and CTO of InfluxData. That's why the vendor created the Flux data scripting and query language.

By Sean Kerner • Jan. 21, 2020

What are the main features of data catalog software?

Data catalogs are curated data portals for self-service analytics users. Learn about the capabilities of data catalog tools, vendors that sell them and how catalogs work.

By Bridget Botelho • Jan. 21, 2020

MariaDB X4 brings smart transactions to open source database

Open source database vendor MariaDB updates its flagship platform with new features to enable the convergence of transactional and analytical databases.

By Sean Kerner • Jan. 16, 2020

New Oracle Enterprise Manager release advances hybrid cloud

Oracle updates its Enterprise Manager platform to version 13.4, bringing new hybrid management capabilities to database users across on-premises and cloud deployments.

By Sean Kerner • Jan. 15, 2020

Former Hortonworks leader named new Cloudera CEO

Cloudera finds a new leader, pulling the former CEO of Hortonworks back into the fold to help set the direction for the big data Hadoop vendor as it moves forward in 2020.

By Sean Kerner • Jan. 14, 2020

Boomi acquisition of Unifi Software nets data management

Dell Boomi expands its data integration software portfolio by acquiring Unifi Software, providing data preparation and data catalog capabilities.

By Sean Kerner • Jan. 13, 2020

Analytics demands add loftier goals to data warehouse strategies

As the concept of storing data and the technologies needed to do it evolve, companies with set goals in mind are building their data warehouses to maximize analytics outcomes.

By George Lawton • Jan. 13, 2020

ArangoDB 3.6 accelerates performance of multi-model database

New release of multi-model database platform from ArangoDB introduces OneShard feature, along with other query optimization capabilities to help improve overall performance.

By Sean Kerner • Jan. 10, 2020

Evaluate your data governance and privacy best practices

GDPR and CCPA have put data governance in the news. With this increase in data legislation, now is a great time to review your company's data governance policies.

By Andy Hayler • Jan. 8, 2020

NuoDB set to improve distributed SQL performance

Ariff Kassam, CTO of distributed SQL database vendor NuoDB, outlines how his company has embraced cloud native and hints about what's to come in the year ahead.

By Sean Kerner • Jan. 7, 2020

How to improve data governance for self-service analytics

Citizen data scientists and self-service analytics are on the rise as the data scientist shortage continues. Here are some data management best practices to support them.

By Ericka Chickowski • Dec. 26, 2019

Apache Kafka version 2.4 improves streaming data performance

The latest release of the Apache Kafka open source event streaming platform adds improved replication and availability capabilities to help boost overall performance.

By Sean Kerner • Dec. 20, 2019

SolarWinds advances cloud native database monitoring

SolarWinds grows its product portfolio with the acquisition of cloud native database monitoring vendor VividCortex, in a bid to help organizations deal with the challenges of cloud.

By Sean Kerner • Dec. 20, 2019

Q&A: The challenges of cloud-native data management

Cloud native data management isn't usually the first thing on anyone's mind, acknowledges Portworx co-founder and CTO Goutham Rao -- but find out how it's become part of organizations' journey.

By Sean Kerner • Dec. 18, 2019