Andrew Brust, Tony Baer and George Anadiotis cover Big Data technologies including Hadoop, NoSQL, Data Warehousing, BI and Predictive Analytics.
The release of Apache Cassandra that's been promoted as enterprise-grade finally is let out the door today, over a year after the beta was announced. And if promises are to be believed, the next major release will come at cloud speed.
Facebook's MySQL 8.0 migration highlighted issues that are common to enterprise system upgrades. We take a closer look at the lessons that Facebook learned and how it could smooth out the process next time.
Dremio Cloud launches at the company's Subsurface event today. The service, initially running exclusively on AWS, will offer enhanced concurrency, workload isolation and advanced security.
Here's the deep dive on MongoDB 5.0. The highlight is developer productivity features, such as Versioned APIs and support for additional language and frameworks. But looking ahead, we expect MongoDB to raise the love with DBAs and other constituencies.
Along with Informatica's announcement of its Cloud Data Governance and Catalog today, comes a suite of features aimed at extending data governance to the world of AI and machine learning models.
The latest addition to Informatica Cloud is a relaunch of data discovery and data governance cloud services that have been brought together and delivered through a new service that’s been freshly built from the ground up.
Datometry introduces a runtime that enables customers to move off Teradata to cloud data warehouses without changing their applications, and is now extending that to Oracle.
Open-source software used to be poorly understood by commercial forces, and it's often approached in a biased way. A new generation of investment funds goes to show that things are changing.
While globally distributed databases are no longer rare, few of them offer a key capability for addressing data residency laws. Fauna is adding region groups that allow organizations to keep within a region or node.
The ability to run Azure SQL Managed Instance -- a cloud version of SQL Server -- on non-Azure clouds, and even on-premises, will be generally available and production-ready on July 30th, 2021.
Data discovery and governance player Io-Tahoe, a division of UK energy provider Centrica, is acquired by data and analytics-focused Hitachi Vantara, which had previously acquired Pentaho and Waterline Data.
The cloud data warehouse startup, which is focused on application-oriented analytics over big data, will use the new funds for expansion of its product, engineering and go-to-market teams.
HPE is partnering with Nutanix to expand HPE GreenLake’s DBaaS portfolio. The joint offering will make legacy databases first-class citizens in a hybrid environment that operates, and soon will be billed, as a cloud service.
Data management, data governance, data observability, data fabric, data mesh, DataOps, MLOps, AIOps. It's a data terminology mess out there. Let's try and untangle it, because there's more to words than lingo.
After helping shepherd Spark to surmount the data bottleneck, UC Berkeley’s Ion Stoica is helping unleash Ray, an emerging open source project to get over the compute bottleneck for scaling machine learning models into production. It will allow any developer to launch their own serverless cluster through a universal API that works anywhere.
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