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Cloud Now Default Platform for Databases, Gartner Says

Deploying a database to the cloud? You're not alone, according to Gartner, which says rapid growth in cloud deployments of databases over the past two years have turned clouds into the default modality and relegated on-p Read more…

Teradata Turns 40, Takes Off Gloves, Readies for a Fight

The past, present, and future of Teradata collided yesterday at the company's headquarters in San Diego, California, where 1,500 employees and guests – including four of the company's original founders -- gathered to c Read more…

ScyllaDB Gives Cohabitation of OLAP and OLTP A Shot

ScyllaDB today announced the availability of a new feature of its Apache Cassandra-compatible database called "workload prioritization" that it says will eliminate the need for organizations to maintain separate database Read more…

Microsoft Unveils New AI Tools and Services at Build 2019

Whether you're interested in using machine learning to build intelligent chatbots, wrangling big data flows, or deploying scale-out databases in the cloud, there was a little something for everybody unveiled today at Mic Read more…

ScyllaDB Rolls Cloud Database Service

Databases continue to migrate to the cloud with mix results, often requiring customers to choose between the convenience of cloud services and the countervailing costs associated with scaling and performance metrics like Read more…

Intel Builds Analytics, Database Use Cases for Optane

Intel offered a list of use cases for its Optane DC persistent memory technology during a company event this week, including Twitter’s effort to scale its Hadoop clusters using Optane and SAP HANA’s database improvem Read more…

Adaptability to Change Critical to Surviving Data Tsunami

As data continues to pile up, enterprises that maintain flexible approaches to managing and mining that data are the ones most likely to achieve competitive success, according to Gartner, which recently released its top Read more…

Benchmarking NoSQL Databases

Developers have a large number of databases to choose from today, particularly when it comes to newer NoSQL databases. Figuring out which databases excel in different areas can be tough, but the folks at Altoros aimed to Read more…

Has FaunaDB Cracked the Code for Global Transactionality?

An organization that wants to power a transactional application using a single database that spans multiple data centers around the world without giving up ACIDity has few good options. One solution is Google Spanner, bu Read more…

AWS Launches Time-Series Database

AWS threw its hat into the nascent ring for time-series databases yesterday with the launch of AWS TimeStream, a managed time-series database that AWS says can handle trillions of events per day. Time-series databases Read more…

Reverse Engineering ETL Jobs for Fun and Profit

As data-loving businesses amass more and more bits and bytes, the credibility of derived results -- as showcased in BI dashboards, KPIs, reports, and sundry other deliverables flowing downstream of the ETL spigot -- tren Read more…

Yellowbrick Claims Flash Breakthrough with MPP Database

Yellowbrick Data emerged with a bang from stealth today by pairing a new massively parallel processing (MPP) analytic database designed to run exclusively on NVMe flash drives along with a claim that it alone has finally Read more…

MapD’s GPU-Powered Database Now Available in Google Cloud’s Marketplace

GPU-powered database pioneer MapD Technologies today announced that customers can now get its software through the Google Cloud Launcher, the online marketplace for Google Cloud Platform. The news comes on the heals of a Read more…

Q&A With a MongoDB CTO

When it comes to database companies, few have had as good a run as MongoDB over the past year. With an IPO last fall and a cloud business that's booming, the New York City firm is flying high. This week at the MongoDB Wo Read more…

MongoDB Fleshes Out Mobile and Cloud Strategies

As its name implies, MongoDB likes to do big things. But with today's unveiling of MongoDB Mobile at MongoDB World in New York City, the company is delivering a diminutive database that runs on mobile devices. It also an Read more…

HPE Moves Processing Closer to Data

Amid a flurry of cloud and networking initiatives announced by Hewlett Packard Enterprise was a commitment to invest $4 billion over the next four years to develop new technologies and services that would connect soaring Read more…

Weighing Open Source’s Worth for the Future of Big Data

The open source software movement began in earnest 20 years ago, when a group of technology leaders in Silicon Valley coined the term as an alternative to the repugnant "free software." Fast forward to 2018, and the conc Read more…

Why 2018 Will Be The Year Of The Data Engineer

The shortage of data scientists – those triple-threat types who possess advanced statistics, business, and coding skills – has been well-documented over the years. But increasingly, businesses are facing a shortage o Read more…

AWS, Others Seen Moving Off Oracle Databases

The shift to open source database software is reportedly weakening Oracle and other traditional database vendors as major customers like Amazon ready lowest cost alternatives. Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), which implemented a Read more…

2018 Predictions: Opening the Big Data Floodgates

The pace of innovation in big data today is exceeded only by the actual volume of data generated. So how will the industry respond to the opportunities and challenges posed by huge pipes of data that will be opened up in Read more…

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