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There Are Many Paths to the Data Lakehouse. Choose Wisely

You don’t need a crystal ball to see that the data lakehouse is the future. At some point soon, it will be the default way of interacting with data, combining scale with cost-effectiveness. Also easy to predict is t Read more…

IBM to Showcase Open Analytics Push at PrestoCon Day

The PrestoDB community will come together this Wednesday for PrestoCon Day, the third annual virtual event showcasing the popular open source SQL engine. Representatives from Uber, Adobe, Alibaba, and TikTok will share s Read more…

HPE Brings Analytics Together on its Data Fabric

HPE today unveiled a major update to its Ezmeral software platform, which previously included over a dozen components but now includes just two, including the Ezmeral Data Fabric that provides edge-to-cloud data manageme Read more…

IBM Embraces Iceberg, Presto in New Watsonx Data Lakehouse

IBM yesterday unveiled watsonx.data, a new data lakehouse offering for cloud and on-prem that will use object storage and Apache Iceberg, an open data format. Big Blue launched two other offerings in the new watsonx fami Read more…

IBM Joins the Presto Foundation with Acquisition of Ahana

IBM has acquired Ahana, a startup providing managed and commercial versions of the Presto open source distributed query engine, for an undisclosed amount. “We believe that this is an exciting time for the Presto pro Read more…

Meet 2023 Person to Watch Justin Borgman

Following the dissolution of the Hadoop elephant, Presto, the successor to Apache Hive, emerged as one of the most promising open source projects. As the CEO and co-founder of Starburst, the largest commercial entity beh Read more…

Why Truly Open Communities are Vital to Open Source Technology

Every company in the world that uses software uses open source software. It just happens, because open source is packaged in so many places and arrives without anyone deciding anything. The forms filed by publicly tra Read more…

Starburst Bolsters Trino Platform as Datanova Begins

Starburst today rolled out a host of enhancements to its Trino-based analytics platform for the cloud, called Galaxy, including support for Python, new caching and indexing features, and a new data catalog. The company u Read more…

NeuroBlade Seeks Controlled Growth for Big Data Bottleneck-Buster

Early adopters of NeuroBlade’s processing-in-memory (PIM) architecture, called XRAM, are showing a 10x to 60X boost in throughput for big SQL workloads. But the company is playing it safe on the growth front, so don’ Read more…

A Dozen Questions for Databricks CTO Matei Zaharia

Matei Zaharia is a very busy man. When he’s not helping to shape the future of Databricks as its CTO, he is helping to shape the future of computer science as an assistant professor at Stanford University.  He also fi Read more…

Starburst Acquires Fellow Trino Supplier, Varada

Starburst solidified its position in the market for next-gen data analytics engines yesterday with the acquisition of Varada, a former competitor that developed and sold an analytics engine based on Presto. Terms of the Read more…

Ahana Launches ‘Forever Free’ Presto Service, Series A Top-Off

Ahana today announced a free version of its hosted Presto service that can run on a six-node EC2 cluster indefinitely. It also added another $7.2 million to its previously announced Series A round, giving the startup mor Read more…

EMR Serverless Now Available from AWS

Amazon EMR, which ostensibly is the world’s most popular hosted Hadoop environment, is now generally available as a serverless offering, AWS announced today. Amazon EMR Serverless will save customers time and money Read more…

Starburst Nabs $250M for Open Analytics on Data Mesh

Starburst today announced the completion of a $250 million Series D round of financing that values the analytics company at $3.35 billion. It also unveiled new product feature as it kicked off its virtual Datanova: Data Read more…

Kubernetes Adoption Widespread for Big Data, But Monitoring and Tuning Are Issues, Survey Finds

Kubernetes may be a complex piece of software that can be difficult to monitor and manage. But the benefits of running applications in the popular container orchestration system appear to outweigh the disadvantages, beca Read more…

Starburst Unveils Cross-Cloud Analytics Service

Starburst today announced that users of its managed analytics service, Galaxy, can now access and analyze data residing in AWS, GCP, and Azure with a single query. This is an industry first for a managed service, the com Read more…

Alluxio Nabs $50M, Preps for Growth in Data Orchestration

Data orchestration software provider Alluxio today announced the close of an oversubscribed $50-million Series C round, which its CEO plans to spend on a global expansion. It also launched version 2.7 of its software, wh Read more…

A Peek at the Future of the Open Data Architecture

Hadoop may have fizzled out as a data platform, but it laid the groundwork for an open data architecture that continues to grow and evolve today, largely in the cloud. We got a peek at the future of this open data archit Read more…

Ahana Grabs $20M to Grow Presto Biz

Presto startup Ahana today announced the completion of its Series A round led by Third Point Ventures, netting it $20 million in capital to grow its data lake analytics business, which currently runs on AWS but will be e Read more…

Starburst Backs Data Mesh Architecture

The emerging data mesh architecture has the potential to keep AI and analytics projects moving forward even as data storage and processing continues to disperse far and wide. One independent backer of the data mesh conce Read more…

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