Database management
As the volume of business data has grown, database management has become vital to data optimization and security. Database management are processes that ensure proper application performance, avoid compliance risk and protect valuable business data. Read database management strategies to make sure data is controlled throughout its lifecycle, from creation to deletion.
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28 Oct 2024
NoSQL database types explained: Column-oriented databases
Learn about the uses of column-oriented databases and the large data model, data warehouses and high-performance querying benefits the NoSQL database brings to organizations. Continue Reading
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23 Oct 2024
NoSQL database types explained: Key-value store
Utilizing a key-value store can improve data processing speeds and scalability for data operations that do not require complex queries or analytics. Continue Reading
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24 Aug 2022
Zilliz raises $60M for open source Milvus vector database
The leading commercial backer behind the open source Milvus database project is looking to advance the technology to build out a database for AI application workloads. Continue Reading
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24 Aug 2022
New SAS, SingleStore integration boosts speed, efficiency
The integration between the longtime data and analytics vendor and the upstart database vendor enables users to work with data in-database, which increases speed-to-insight. Continue Reading
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23 Aug 2022
InfluxData eases event streaming data collection
The new Native Collectors service in the cloud is an attempt by the time series database vendor to let users connect to message broker services and event streaming data. Continue Reading
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19 Aug 2022
PlanetScale reaches to the edge with serverless driver
The vendor continues to build out its database-as-a-service platform and is now aiming to make it easier for developers to connect to edge services. Continue Reading
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18 Aug 2022
MariaDB set to expand geospatial database capabilities
With the purchase of CubeWerx, the database vendor will add geospatial capabilities to its SkySQL database service that will enable satellite imagery analysis in applications. Continue Reading
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17 Aug 2022
Arcion data pipeline updates for schema evolution
The vendor added new database support to its change data capture platform including for BigQuery and Imply, as well as features for schema update and data column transformations. Continue Reading
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17 Aug 2022
Cloudera users get fully managed data lakehouse platform
The vendor is expanding its set of offerings with the launch of CDP One, a service initially available only on AWS that enables serverless deployment in the cloud. Continue Reading
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11 Aug 2022
GridGain, Apache Ignite founder talks in-memory databases
Nikita Ivanov details the origin of his company and discusses the growing need organizations have for real-time database processing capabilities to complete modern transactions. Continue Reading
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09 Aug 2022
A look at Presto, Trino SQL query engines
The co-creator of the open source project at Facebook reflects on 10 years of growth as he helps lead one of its resulting tools into the future. Continue Reading
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05 Aug 2022
Hazelcast CEO looks to grow real-time data platform
The CEO of the data streaming vendor discusses the direction Hazelcast is heading in as it launches a serverless platform for real-time processing of streaming and contextual data. Continue Reading
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20 Jul 2022
Oracle Database Service for Azure connects Microsoft to OCI
Oracle and Microsoft are extending their partnership to enable Microsoft cloud users to directly provision and access Oracle Cloud Infrastructure database services. Continue Reading
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14 Jul 2022
StarRocks brings open source OLAP database to the cloud
The open source online analytical transaction processing DBaaS startup takes a different approach to accelerate queries as it moves to the cloud. Continue Reading
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14 Jul 2022
ScyllaDB V open source NoSQL database embraces WebAssembly
New release of the open source NoSQL database adds an optimized I/O scheduler to accelerate read/write operations and improve workload scalability. Continue Reading
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12 Jul 2022
SingleStore secures $116M in funding to fuel growth
The data management vendor has secured $278 million in financing since December 2020 and plans to use the new funds to fuel product development and expand marketing efforts. Continue Reading
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08 Jul 2022
Databricks platform fuels analytics at State Department
The vendor's AI and machine learning capabilities have enabled the government agency to improve the effectiveness of its data analysis technology and its overall efficiency. Continue Reading
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06 Jul 2022
LA County modernizes hiring with Azure and Databricks
The HR department of the largest U.S. county revamped its analytics stack in order to help reduce hiring times that often took more than a year. Continue Reading
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06 Jul 2022
TigerGraph Cloud update enables easier adoption, deployment
With enterprise customers adding more users as graph technology gains popularity, the vendor added features to make wide use of its SaaS platform easier and more secure. Continue Reading
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30 Jun 2022
Cloudera embraces Apache Iceberg as cloud data lake evolves
The Cloudera Data Platform now supports the open source cloud data lake table format as part of the continuing evolution of the broader Hadoop ecosystem. Continue Reading
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29 Jun 2022
New Collibra, Snowflake integration enhances data governance
The new tool aims to enable customers to quickly put protections on sensitive data without requiring them to write code so that business users can securely work with data. Continue Reading
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29 Jun 2022
DataStax extends Astra Streaming event data platform
The data platform vendor extended its Apache Pulsar-based Astra Streaming platform with support for more streaming protocols, including Kafka, JMS and RabbitMQ. Continue Reading
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29 Jun 2022
Yugabyte distributed SQL database adds migration service
The YugabyteDB 2.15 distributed SQL database update introduces a table group feature to accelerate and optimize performance for different database workloads. Continue Reading
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29 Jun 2022
Data Definition Language (DDL)
Data Definition Language (DDL) is used to create and modify the structure of objects in a database using predefined commands and a specific syntax. Continue Reading
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28 Jun 2022
Databricks accelerates data lakehouse at Data + AI Summit
Databricks committed to making its Delta Lake technology fully open source as the vendor rolled out platform updates to accelerate data analytics and machine learning workloads. Continue Reading
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27 Jun 2022
DBMS keys: 8 types of keys defined
Here's a guide to primary, super, foreign and candidate keys, what they're used for in relational database management systems and the differences among them. Continue Reading
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23 Jun 2022
Starburst acquires Varada to accelerate data lake queries
After a year of partnering, the data lake query vendor decided to acquire fellow Trino SQL query engine supporter Varada to help boost query performance. Continue Reading
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22 Jun 2022
Treeverse set to launch LakeFS cloud data lake service
The open source LakeFS technology gets a fully managed cloud service to help organization better iterate and version cloud data sources for development efforts. Continue Reading
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21 Jun 2022
data abstraction
Data abstraction is the reduction of a particular body of data to a simplified representation of the whole. Continue Reading
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17 Jun 2022
Neon previews serverless PostgreSQL database service
Startup emerges to launch a new developer-focused cloud database as a service based on open source PostgreSQL, with capabilities to enable branching for application development. Continue Reading
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15 Jun 2022
DataStax raises $115M to advance its data stack
The CEO of the data platform vendor, which is a leading contributor to the open source Cassandra database, details why the vendor is looking to assemble a full data stack. Continue Reading
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13 Jun 2022
thumbnail
A thumbnail is a small image representation of a larger image, usually intended to make it easier and faster to look at or manage a group of larger images. Continue Reading
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09 Jun 2022
Datamart a new self-service developer tool in Power BI
The capability, now in in preview, will enable Premium customers to build small to midsize relational databases dedicated to a single subject, without requiring code. Continue Reading
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07 Jun 2022
MongoDB 6.0 set to bring analytics to NoSQL database
The vendor plans to update its database technology with new capabilities including queryable encryption and columnstore index to accelerate data analytics queries. Continue Reading
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03 Jun 2022
Data connectivity key to insight discovery
With the economy in near constant flux over the past two years, connecting data points to fuel analytics has enabled many organizations to act and react as they need to. Continue Reading
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02 Jun 2022
Incorta integrates Delta Sharing with Direct Data Mapping
Incorta looks to make it easier for users to collaborate and share data across different sources, to aid business intelligence and data analytics operations. Continue Reading
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01 Jun 2022
PlanetScale brings new insights to its database as a service
The vendor expanded its cloud database service with new capabilities for integrated data observability with insights, as well as the ability to scale read-only replicas. Continue Reading
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25 May 2022
CockroachDB boosts automation in distributed SQL database
The database vendor has updated its CockroachDB platform with features to enable users to more reliably scale and control operations to meet data demands. Continue Reading
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25 May 2022
TigerGraph unveils new tool for machine learning modeling
The vendor's new capability is a pipeline for developing and deploying machine learning models with graph technology and works with popular third-party machine learning platforms. Continue Reading
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18 May 2022
Apollo GraphQL creates supergraph for connected data service
Apollo is out with updates for its namesake GraphQL platform, including a new router technology and a data federation update to help organizations connect to data sources. Continue Reading
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17 May 2022
6 key steps to develop a data governance strategy
Data governance shouldn't be built around technology, but the other way around. Existing infrastructure, executive support, data literacy, metrics and proper tools are essential. Continue Reading
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17 May 2022
Percona Platform aims to boost open source database support
The open source database services provider is out with a new integrated offering that provides automated capabilities for organizations to manage and optimize database operations. Continue Reading
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17 May 2022
Imply raises $100M for analytics database technology
The lead vendor behind the open source Apache Druid database raises new money to help grow its go-to-market efforts and build out new technology as it heads toward a possible IPO. Continue Reading
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13 May 2022
7 best practices for successful data governance programs
A comprehensive, companywide data governance program strengthens data infrastructure, improves compliance initiatives, supports strategic intelligence and boosts customer loyalty. Continue Reading
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11 May 2022
Google introduces AlloyDB PostgreSQL-based cloud database
The tech giant is growing its cloud database portfolio with a new service that add analytics query acceleration to and boosts performance of the PostgreSQL database. Continue Reading
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11 May 2022
PingCap brings TiDB distributed SQL HTAP database to cloud
The TiDB Cloud provides a fully managed deployment of the open source TiDB database, which provides both analytical and transactional processing functionality. Continue Reading
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10 May 2022
Couchbase Server 7.1 advances enterprise NoSQL database
The database vendor is updating its namesake platform with an optimized storage engine and new integrations to connect data sources including cloud data lakes. Continue Reading
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04 May 2022
Starburst boosts data lake connections and fault tolerance
The data lake query vendor is bringing new features to its platform to optimize queries with the open source Trino query engine across multiple formats and sources. Continue Reading
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04 May 2022
Alluxio 2.8 improves data orchestration platform security
Open source-based data platform provider Alluxio is updating its namesake technology with enhanced Amazon S3 support and improved security for cloud data access. Continue Reading
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28 Apr 2022
Hasura enables GraphQL joins for data federation
Connecting multiple GraphQL services is a new feature in the Hasura 2.6 update that helps organizations unify multiple data sources in a data federation. Continue Reading
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28 Apr 2022
Ocient Hyperscale Data Warehouse scales data operations
The data warehouse vendor is targeting enterprises that need to use a trillion rows of data or more for analysis, with hyperscale technology that is now ready for broader adoption. Continue Reading
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26 Apr 2022
Akamai goes DBaaS with Linode Managed Database service
The Linode Managed Database service is set to debut, bringing support for the MySQL database and expanding support to include PostgreSQL, Redis and MongoDB in the coming months. Continue Reading
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25 Apr 2022
How to set up a MySQL database in Linux
Learn to prepare for a SQL-based Linux database, create a new database and create database users with permissions. This enables you to work with many other services. Continue Reading
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21 Apr 2022
Databricks aims data lakehouse at media and entertainment
Gaming vendor Sega is using the data vendor's technology to unify its data for sales as well as game balancing to enable players to get the best experience. Continue Reading
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20 Apr 2022
Oracle boosts Exadata Cloud Infrastructure with X9M
New hardware is coming to the tech giant's cloud service for database workloads, with the Exadata X9M for more compute and storage to provide increased performance and scale. Continue Reading
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19 Apr 2022
Confluent secures event data streaming in cloud update
The vendor's Q2 2022 cloud update provides more precise security access control to help organizations better secure, scale and manage the Apache Kafka-based technology platform. Continue Reading
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13 Apr 2022
Databricks fuels analytics for Spain's top soccer league
After prioritizing data-driven decision-making over the last decade, LaLiga is now using Databricks to inform its clubs and fans about play on the field. Continue Reading
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12 Apr 2022
Arcion brings change data capture platform to the cloud
Getting data out of one system and into another in the right format as quickly as possible is a challenge the Arcion Cloud service is aiming to address for organizations. Continue Reading
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07 Apr 2022
NetApp acquires Instaclustr for database as a service
Instaclustr is being acquired by NetApp in a bid to the help the vendor grow beyond its on-premises storage roots into the bustling market for cloud software as a service. Continue Reading
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06 Apr 2022
MongoDB 5.3 enhances time series data capabilities
MongoDB is continuing to grow its multimodel database capabilities, adding the ability to help users with gap filling for missing data sets, in the new 5.3 release. Continue Reading
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05 Apr 2022
Databricks enables Delta Live Tables in data lakehouse
Databricks is looking to make it easier for users to build data pipelines to extract, transform and load data from any source using a Spark SQL data query. Continue Reading
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31 Mar 2022
Swim Continuum advances event streaming data intelligence
The vendor is continuing to build out its technology aimed at enabling organizations to build applications that use real-time data to improve operations. Continue Reading
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29 Mar 2022
Oracle HeatWave ML fuses machine learning with database
The tech giant is continuing to build out the capabilities of its MySQL HeatWave cloud database with real-time elasticity, performance boosts and machine learning integration. Continue Reading
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29 Mar 2022
Pinecone raises $28M to advance vector database
The startup's database technology enables enterprises to use traditional data stores alongside vector-based data to support advanced data queries and search. Continue Reading
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24 Mar 2022
DataStax Astra DB integrates real-time data streaming
The database-as-a-service vendor advanced the change data capture capabilities of its cloud database with technology from its Apache Pulsar-based streaming service. Continue Reading
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24 Mar 2022
PlanetScale eases serverless database schema migration
The database-as-a-service platform vendor looks to make it easier for developers to build data-driven applications and revert schema changes when needed. Continue Reading
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22 Mar 2022
StarTree brings Apache Pinot real-time database to the cloud
The open source Apache Pinot OLAP data store is set to become easier to deploy, manage and operate in the cloud with improved data ingestion and data observability capabilities. Continue Reading
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17 Mar 2022
Jitsuin rebrands as RKVST for blockchain data assurance
The RKVST platform supports multiple types of blockchain data applications, including secured SBOM data sharing for cybersecurity. Continue Reading
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16 Mar 2022
Oracle Multi-VM Autonomous Database lands on Exadata systems
The tech giant now enables users of the Exadata Cloud at Customer service to run multiple types of the vendor's fully managed and unmanaged databases on the same hardware. Continue Reading
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15 Mar 2022
Redis launches JSON database capabilities with RedisJSON 2.0
The data platform vendor is growing beyond its data caching roots to support more data types and full database capabilities that integrate with RediSearch indexing technology. Continue Reading
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14 Mar 2022
Fauna brings real-time streaming to serverless database
The ability to directly subscribe to real-time updates is the latest feature for the Fauna database that can help developers quickly bring data to applications. Continue Reading
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11 Mar 2022
Instaclustr to support Karapace open source schema registry
Instaclustr is joining rival Aiven in an effort to support an open source technology that brings REST proxy and schema technology to Kafka event streaming. Continue Reading
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09 Mar 2022
Databricks extends data lakehouse platform to healthcare
Healthcare data exists in widely varying formats. Getting it into a data lake where it can be used for analytics and machine learning is a challenge Databricks is looking to meet. Continue Reading
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08 Mar 2022
DataStax scales K8ssandra for cloud-native Cassandra
The real-time data vendor is out with a new release of its K8ssandra Kubernetes operator that enables organizations to deploy, configure and run the Apache Cassandra database. Continue Reading
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07 Mar 2022
Fannie Mae, Mercedes-Benz detail data lake platform uses
At the Subsurface Winter 2022 virtual conference, several organizations including Fannie Mae and Mercedes-Benz explained why and how they are using Dremio's data lake engine. Continue Reading
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04 Mar 2022
Directus brings Open Data Platform technology to the cloud
The vendor's new managed cloud service is designed to enable organizations to connect applications, business intelligence and websites to data sources and databases. Continue Reading
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02 Mar 2022
Dremio opens up data lakehouse with new engine
The data lakehouse vendor is expanding its cloud platform with a new SQL query engine and data metastore for data lakes that builds on top of the Apache Iceberg table format. Continue Reading
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01 Mar 2022
Imply Polaris brings Apache Druid database to the cloud
Imply's new Polaris cloud database services builds on the open source Druid technology, with integrated data ingestion capabilities and a new multi-stage query engine. Continue Reading
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25 Feb 2022
SentinelOne reboots Scalyr as enterprise data platform
The cybersecurity vendor launches DataSet as a separate technology service from its core cybersecurity platform to help organizations manage and query large volumes of data. Continue Reading
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24 Feb 2022
MetLife improves efficiency with Tibco Data Virtualization
The insurance giant's investment management division has reduced its data integration process from weeks to hours since adopting the analytics vendor's technology in 2017. Continue Reading
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23 Feb 2022
operational data store (ODS)
An operational data store (ODS) is a type of database that's often used as an interim logical area for a data warehouse. Continue Reading
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23 Feb 2022
Couchbase Mobile 3 brings NoSQL database to the edge
The vendor looks to integrate an edge-to-cloud database architecture with a new release that provides developers with tools to manage distributed database deployments. Continue Reading
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23 Feb 2022
Voltron Data takes aim at data management with Apache Arrow
CEO and co-founder Josh Patterson outlines the promise of the new language-agnostic data analytics development framework and why the vendor is raising big money to support it. Continue Reading
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17 Feb 2022
multidimensional database (MDB)
A multidimensional database (MDB) is a type of database that is optimized for data warehouse and online analytical processing (OLAP) applications. Continue Reading
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17 Feb 2022
Hyperledger expands open source blockchain efforts
The CTO of a major blockchain group provides insight into the growing effort to build open source blockchain technologies for enterprises, though challenges remain. Continue Reading
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16 Feb 2022
ArangoDB 3.9 scales graph database operations
The open source graph database vendor released a new version of its platform with new features to enable users to better deal with the challenges of growing data workloads. Continue Reading
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15 Feb 2022
InfluxData expands time series database capabilities
The open source-based InfluxDB platform is adding capabilities to better handle data coming from industrial sensors and devices that enable organizations to optimize operations. Continue Reading
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15 Feb 2022
Databricks launches new lakehouse for financial services
The cloud data vendor's new set of capabilities for financial services customers is its second industry-specific lakehouse after it launched one for retail users in January. Continue Reading
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14 Feb 2022
Elastic 8.0 aims to enhance search relevance
Elastic is updating its flagship platform with a major release that adds enhanced vector search and natural language processing capabilities to improve data query results. Continue Reading
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10 Feb 2022
Oracle Autonomous cloud database gains MongoDB API support
The tech giant continues to build out its multimodel database capabilities with the general availability of a new API for widely used MongoDB applications. Continue Reading
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10 Feb 2022
ScyllaDB 5.0 set to advance NoSQL database capabilities
At Scylla Summit 2022, the open source NoSQL database vendor introduced upcoming services including a DBaaS as well as a new platform release, and a user outlined its application. Continue Reading
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09 Feb 2022
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. Continue Reading
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07 Feb 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. Continue Reading
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02 Feb 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. Continue Reading
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01 Feb 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. Continue Reading
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27 Jan 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. Continue Reading
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26 Jan 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. Continue Reading
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25 Jan 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. Continue Reading
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21 Jan 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. Continue Reading
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20 Jan 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. Continue Reading
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19 Jan 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. Continue Reading
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13 Jan 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.' Continue Reading