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The Semantic Layer Architecture: Where Business Intelligence is Truly Heading

The rise of cloud computing, data mesh, and especially data lakehouses all reflect the massive efforts to adopt architectures that will keep pace with the exponential of data constantly growing. But the industry is st Read more…

Iceberg Data Services Emerge from Tabular, Dremio

Data professionals with plans to build lakehouses atop the Apache Iceberg table format have two new Iceberg services to choose from, including one from Tabular, the company founded by Iceberg’s co-creator, and another Read more…

Open Table Formats Square Off in Lakehouse Data Smackdown

If you’re constructing a data lakehouse today, you’ll need a table format to build on. But which open table format should you choose: Apache Iceberg, Databricks Delta Table, or Apache Hudi? A good place to start is i Read more…

Onehouse Announces $25M Series A, New Feature for Its Managed Lakehouse Platform

Managed data lakehouse firm Onehouse has announced a $25 million Series A funding round, bringing its total funding to $33 million. Additionally, the company announced a new feature of its platform called Onetable. On Read more…

Are Databases Becoming Just Query Engines for Big Object Stores?

Object storage is winning the battle for big data storage in such a convincing fashion that database makers are beginning to cede data storage to object storage vendors and concentrating instead on optimizing their SQL q Read more…

Dremio Supports Iceberg in Lakehouse Update

Dremio has announced the general availability of its support for DML operations (insert, update, and delete) on Apache Iceberg tables and for time travel for in-place querying of historical data. Apache Iceberg is an Read more…

Google Cloud Opens Up Its Data Cloud at Next ’22

Today at Next, Google Cloud laid down the welcome mat to an array of big data software providers, enabling them to become first-class citizens in its cloud. The company also announced a slew of upgrades to its own wares, Read more…

Cloudera Picks Iceberg, Touts 10x Boost in Impala

Cloudera is now supporting the open source Apache Iceberg table format in its cloud data platform, or lakehouse, the vendor announced yesterday. The move will help to ensure transactional integrity in the big data enviro Read more…

Why the Open Sourcing of Databricks Delta Lake Table Format Is a Big Deal

Databricks introduced Delta back in 2019 as a way to gain transactional integrity with the Parquet data table format for Spark cloud workloads. Over time, Delta evolved to become its own table format and also to become m Read more…

Databricks Opens Up Its Delta Lakehouse at Data + AI Summit

Databricks, which had faced criticism of running a closed lakehouse, is open sourcing most of the technology behind Delta Lake, including its APIs, with the launch of Delta Lake 2.0. That was one of a number of announcem Read more…

Meet 2022 Datanami Person to Watch Ryan Blue

As the co-creator of Apache Iceberg, Ryan Blue played a central role in establishing the table data format as a new standard in the open data ecosystem. As the CEO of Tabular, Blue is also buliding a commerical entity ar Read more…

Lakehouse Update a Warehouse Killer, Dremio Says

Dremio co-founder and Chief Product Officer Tomer Shiran says the data lakehouse architecture updates it announced today at the start of its Subsurface Winter Live conference--including a 60% faster query engine, a new d Read more…

Snowflake, AWS Warm Up to Apache Iceberg

Apache Iceberg, the table format that ensures consistency and streamlines data partitioning in demanding analytic environments, is being adopted by two of the biggest data providers in the cloud, Snowflake and AWS. Custo Read more…

Tabular Seeks to Remake Cloud Data Lakes in Iceberg’s Image

The creators of the table format Apache Iceberg launched a new company this summer called Tabular that’s aiming to remake how companies store data in the cloud. If the company has its way, much of the minutia of how da Read more…

Apache Iceberg: The Hub of an Emerging Data Service Ecosystem?

Engineers at Netflix and Apple created Apache Iceberg several years ago to address the performance and usability challenges of using Apache Hive tables in large and demanding data lake environments. Now the data table fo Read more…

Dremio Officially a ‘Unicorn’ As it Reaches $1B Valuation

The explosion of data lake analytics in the cloud has been good for Dremio, which today announced the completion of a $135-million Series D round. The company’s valuation has more than doubled in the past year to $1 bi Read more…

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