Tick Data Comes to BigQuery

A huge batch of tick data, used by financial traders to track the minimum upward or downward movement of stock prices, has been added to Google Cloud Platform, allowing financial analysts to plug pricing and trading data Read more…

Slootman Makes It Snow at Snowflake Summit

When Frank Slootman was hired to take the helm of Snowflake Computing, one of his first questions was "Does the company have a user conference?" His new colleagues responded yes, in about a month, in fact. "And you're Read more…

Cloud Data Warehouse Gets New Analytics Interface

Analytics interface vendors continue to offer easy-to-use tools designed to allow more business users to query data, especially data increasingly stored in a growing number of cloud data warehouses. Among the goals is si Read more…

What’s Driving the Cloud Data Warehouse Explosion?

The advent of powerful data warehouses in the cloud is changing the face of big data analytics, as companies move their workloads into the cloud. According to analysts and cloud executives, the phenomenon is accelerating Read more…

Talend Buys Stitch for $60M

Stitch, a provider of integration services for loading cloud data warehouses, was snapped up by ETL software developer Talend today in a $60 million deal. Stitch is a relatively small firm that was spun out of RJMetri Read more…

Microsoft Azure Data Warehouse Gets a Tune Up

Microsoft is keeping pace in the cloud data warehouse race with the release of its next-generation Azure SQL data warehouse which it promotes as an optimized computing tier. Microsoft said its massively-parallel proce Read more…

Google’s BigQuery Gaining Steam As Cloud Warehouse Wars Heat Up

Amazon Redshift may dominate the nascent cloud data warehouse category, but anecdotal evidence suggests Google BigQuery is catching on quickly – and offerings from Microsoft, SnowFlake, and others aren't far behind. Read more…