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Data catalog management for analytics fraught with unique demands
Data catalogs for analytics applications demand detailed assessment of user needs, cross-functional teams, ready access, continuous improvement and a self-sustaining system.
By George Lawton • Dec. 17, 2019 -
Amazon Managed Apache Cassandra Service stokes competition
Vendors in the open source Cassandra NoSQL database market voice their concerns about AWS' entry into the field, as the cloud giant looks to expand its database portfolio.
By Sean Kerner • Dec. 13, 2019 -
Aerospike 4.8 advances database persistent memory support
Aerospike 4.8 adds full support for Intel's Optane persistent memory, enabling the NoSQL database to run both the index and data in memory for better overall performance.
By Sean Kerner • Dec. 11, 2019 -
How to streamline feature engineering for machine learning
Structured data is necessary in machine learning, but sifting through data is time consuming. Streamlining the feature engineering process can help data scientists be more productive.
By George Lawton • Dec. 10, 2019 -
Amazon cloud database and data analytics expand
AWS expands its Redshift data warehouse capabilities including managed storage and query acceleration at the re:Invent 2019 conference, alongside a new managed Cassandra database service.
By Sean Kerner • Dec. 4, 2019 -
Vendors move away from open source database software licensing
While open source is a key to success for many database vendors, it can also potentially lead to a competitive threat from a cloud scale provider.
By Sean Kerner • Dec. 2, 2019 -
Oracle looks to grow multi-model database features
Decade after decade, Oracle continues to be relevant in the database market as it pivots to include an expanding list of capabilities to serve users, notably cloud.
By Sean Kerner • Nov. 26, 2019 -
Confluent introduces ksqlDB event streaming database
Getting streaming data optimized to work inside of a database often involves disparate vendors and technologies, a challenge that Confluent aims to help fix.
By Sean Kerner • Nov. 21, 2019 -
Future of MongoDB could be brighter than other NoSQL engines
Top NoSQL database MongoDB, once thought of as a revolution in data management, has come back to Earth some, but it still has a chance to stay ahead of competitors.
By Chris Foot • Nov. 21, 2019 -
CockroachDB 19.2 improves distributed database performance
New release of CockroachDB cloud-native distributed database platform helps to reduce latency; it also gets enhanced data backup capabilities.
By Sean Kerner • Nov. 19, 2019 -
Redis Labs eases database management with RedisInsight
Based on the open source RDBTools project, Redis Labs' new tool gives database administrators a stable graphical user interface for database management.
By Sean Kerner • Nov. 18, 2019 -
How AI could save the enterprise data catalog
Enterprise data catalogs record all the databases and files in a corporation, but sometimes it can become out of date. Advances in AI are helping minimize the problem.
By Andy Hayler • Nov. 14, 2019 -
With Vitess 4.0, database vendor matures cloud-native platform
Scaling a MySQL database in the cloud is not easy, but the open source Vitess project manages the project at scale for cloud-native Kubernetes deployments.
By Sean Kerner • Nov. 13, 2019 -
Managing unstructured data is crucial to enterprises’ AI goals
Unstructured data makes up a huge portion of most businesses' data volume. But, with data-hungry AI systems coming online, making sense of these stores has never been more important.
By Bill Marcus • Nov. 11, 2019 -
ScyllaDB set to improve NoSQL database performance
ScyllaDB has been helpful for big organizations such as Comcast, which was able to trim from nearly 1,000 database nodes to 78 ScyllaDB nodes and now has more room to grow.
By Sean Kerner • Nov. 8, 2019 -
Translytical data platforms provide options to unify databases
Forrester identifies top vendors in the translytical database category and common elements that help make the unified database model well adapted for multiple use cases.
By Sean Kerner • Nov. 6, 2019 -
Okera shines Spotlight on data lake insights
Data stored in a data lake can be an important asset, but understanding how the data is being used, or in some cases not used, is another challenge altogether.
By Sean Kerner • Nov. 5, 2019 -
Data silos and culture lead to data transformation challenges
Data continues to grow at a rapid rate, and users are faced with increasing complexity and challenges to make sense of it all in a way that helps improve business outcomes.
By Sean Kerner • Oct. 31, 2019 -
How enterprises navigate GDPR data management rules
For businesses that operate in the EU, complying with GDPR has to be a top priority. And in many, much of the compliance burden falls on the data management staff.
By Maria Korolov • Oct. 29, 2019 -
Grafana Labs observability platform set to grow
Raj Dutt, co-founder and CEO of Grafana Labs, provides insight into what his company is doing and where it's headed, now that it has raised new money and is seeing new use cases for its data observability technology.
By Sean Kerner • Oct. 24, 2019 -
Splunk advances Data-to-Everything initiative
Splunk execs outline the vendor's direction and new capabilities at its annual user conference, including the general availability of Data Fabric Search and Data Stream Processor.
By Sean Kerner • Oct. 24, 2019 -
Open source database use is a growing trend
Study shows that more users are using open source software for data management, with most organizations using more than one technology to help meet different needs.
By Sean Kerner • Oct. 21, 2019 -
Databricks contributes Delta Lake to the Linux Foundation
Databricks has found a new home at the Linux Foundation for its open source Delta Lake data lake project, in a bid to help grow a broader community and accelerate adoption.
By Sean Kerner • Oct. 18, 2019 -
Apache Rya matures open source triple store database
Open source triple store database technology used by the U.S. Navy moves forward as a stable, mature project at the Apache Software Foundation.
By Sean Kerner • Oct. 17, 2019 -
PostgreSQL 12 boosts open source database performance
Widely used open source PostgreSQL database platform gets a major update providing users with new SQL query capabilities for JSON and improved performance.
By Sean Kerner • Oct. 14, 2019