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AtScale Launches Public Leaderboard for Evaluating Text-to-SQL Solutions

As the demand for natural language data queries continues to grow, so does the need for a standardized way to evaluate Text-to-SQL (T2SQL) solutions. Despite rapid advancements in T2SQL technologies, the industry has Read more…

IBM Unveils New Open Source Granite Models to Enhance AI Capabilities

IBM is expanding its enterprise AI business with the launch of the third generation of Granite large language models (LLMs) aimed at providing autonomy and flexibility to its users. The new Granite 3.0 models represent t Read more…

Polars Gets GPU Support as Cloud Version Nears Launch

A new speedy DataFrame library called Polars is starting to turn heads in the data science community thanks to its performance and adoption rate. The open source project, which provides a multithreaded, vectorized query Read more…

AWS Brings OpenSearch Under the Linux Foundation

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced that the OpenSearch project has officially transitioned to the OpenSearch Software Foundation, a neutral, community-driven initiative under the Linux Foundation.  OpenSearch is an Read more…

Does Open Source Software Still Matter?

One of the hallmarks of the big data era has been widespread use of free and open source software. But in recent months, companies like Cockroach Labs and Anaconda have pulled back on their commitments to free and open s Read more…

Cockroach Labs Shifts from Open Core to Single Enterprise Model

Cockroach Labs Inc., the company behind the distributed SQL database CockroachDB, is changing its licensing model to better align with the evolving needs of its customer base.  The new licensing strategy involves con Read more…

TigerEye Introduces DuckDB.dart to Facilitate Data-Intensive App Development

TigerEye Labs, an AI-powered planning and revenue management platform, has announced the open-source release of DuckDB.dart, an open-source tool that enables developers to build and run data-intensive applications more e Read more…

Salesforce Unveils MINT-1T : A Groundbreaking Milestone in Multimodal AI Innovation

The development of large multimodal models (LMMs) relies on comprehensive datasets that integrate images and text. These datasets facilitate the creation of advanced models that can interpret and generate content across Read more…

Crunchy Data Goes All-In With Postgres

The emergence of Postgres as a defacto standard for new development projects has surprised many IT observers. But one group that’s not surprised are the folks at Crunchy Data, a South Carolina company that’s been bui Read more…

Linux Foundation Backs ‘Valkey’ Open-Source Fork of Redis

The Linux Foundation has shared its intent to form Valkey as its own Redis alternative. Redis is a popular open-source, in-memory, NoSQL key/value store that is used primarily as a quick-response database or application Read more…

Vital Lessons Burgeoning Technologies Can Learn From the Open Source Movement

The media landscape has been overwhelmed as of late with headlines about artificial intelligence, quantum computing, the metaverse, and other emerging technologies poised to cause significant disruption to our society. W Read more…

Rethinking ‘Open’ for AI

What does “open” mean in the context of AI? Must we accept hidden layers? Do copyrights and patents still hold sway? And do consumers have the right to opt out of data collection? These are the types of questions tha Read more…

Zilliz Unveils New Pricing Model, Bolsters Its Cloud Vector Database for LLM Apps

Zilliz is looking to become the preferred vector database choice for LLM-powered applications through strategic enhancements and a cost-effective new pricing model that now includes a free tier. The company just announce Read more…

Meet 2023 Datanami Person to Watch David Nalley

Two megatrends in big data today involve open source software and the cloud. One person at the intersection of these two trends is David Nalley, who’s the head of open source strategy and marketing at AWS and president Read more…

Beyond the Moat: Powerful Open-Source AI Models Just There for the Taking

ChatGPT and GPT-4 models get all the headlines these days. But if you look around, you’ll find capable open source models you can run yourself, for free, with no restrictions, with excellent performance. A Google resea Read more…

Confluent’s New Cloud Capabilities Address Data Streaming Hurdles

Confluent has announced several new Confluent Cloud capabilities and features that address the data governance, security, and optimization needs of data streaming in the cloud. “Real-time data is the lifeblood of ev 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…

Airbyte Launches Premium Support for Its Open Source Data Integration Platform

Data integration platform Airbyte has announced the launch of its first premium support offering for Airbyte Open Source. Airbyte Open Source is a deeply customizable version of the company’s data integration platfo Read more…

Hugging Face and Databricks Streamline Dataset Creation with Spark

Databricks and Hugging Face have unveiled a new integration that will allow users to create a Hugging Face dataset from an Apache Spark dataframe. Databricks has written and committed these Spark changes to the Huggin Read more…

Meet Maxime Beauchemin, a 2023 Person to Watch

When it comes to prolific contributors to open source projects in the big data space, Maxime Beauchemin is definitely somebody you should know. As a data engineer at Airbnb, Beauchemin created multiple tools that he subs Read more…

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