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Rupert Is Closing the Analytics to Action Loop with $8M Seed Funding
The era of speculative analytics projects is over, according to Rupert, maker of an analytics distribution platform that has just raised $8 million in a seed funding round. Analytics tools are helping businesses uncov Read more…
EdgeDB Seeks to Bring Relational Databases Out of the 1970s
Disco. Bell-bottom pants. Platform shoes. Relational database management systems. Some of us have soft spots for the 1970s. But if you’re EdgeDB CEO Yury Selivanov, you would prefer to put relational databases behind u Read more…
Developing Kafka Data Pipelines Just Got Easier
Developing data pipelines in Apache Kafka just got easier thanks to the launch of Stream Designer, a graphical design tool that is now available on Confluent Cloud. Confluent also used this week’s Kafka conference, dub Read more…
StarTree Uncorks $47 Million for Pinot
StarTree, the commercial entity behind the distributed storage and analytics engine called Apache Pinot, has completed a Series B round of venture capital funding worth $47 million, the company announced today. Apache Read more…
StarRocks Brings Speedy OLAP Database to the Cloud
Companies that keep hitting their heads on performance limitations of existing analytics databases may want to check out the fast new cloud analytics offering rolled out today by StarRocks, the commercial entity backing Read more…
Choosing a Database for Your Enterprise? Here Is What You Need to Consider
Data is everywhere. Big data is still a talking point - those massive volumes of data that businesses have to manage, day-in, day-out. Irrespective of how much data there is (or even what type of data), its true value li Read more…
Looker Founder Helps Create New Data Exploration Language, Malloy
Lloyd Tabb is keeping busy since Looker was sold to Google back in 2019. The latest open source project for the prolific computer scientist and his Google team is Malloy, a new language that’s based on SQL but which Ta Read more…
It’s About Time for InfluxData
These are heady times for InfluxDB, which is the world’s most popular time-series database, which has been the fastest growing category of databases the past two years, per DB-Engines.com. But when Paul Dix and his par 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…
O’Reilly Report Shows Relational DB Momentum, No AI Slowdown
O’Reilly has released its Technology Trends for 2022 report, highlighting trends in its data spanning technologies from cloud and AI to databases and the metaverse. Among its conclusions: a bright and continuing future Read more…
Narrowing the AI-BI Gap with Exploratory Analysis
The worlds of AI and BI occupy distinct places in the analytics continuum, which is most often understood with concepts like descriptive analytics, predictive analytics, and prescriptive analytics. Users can leverage des Read more…
Databricks SQL Now GA, Bringing Traditional BI to the Lakehouse
Companies that want to run traditional enterprise BI workloads but don’t want to involve a traditional data warehouse may be interested in the new Databricks SQL service that became generally available yesterday. Th Read more…
KX Welcomes New Languages to Speedy Analytics Database
Since its inception, KX has been the exclusive domain of programmers skilled in the language q, and used primarily for the most demanding analytics workloads in the capital markets. While those use cases continue, the co Read more…
Spark Gets Closer Hooks to Pandas, SQL with Version 3.2
The Apache Spark community last week announced Spark 3.2, a significant new release of the distributed computing framework. Among the more exciting features are deeper support for the Python data ecosystem, including the Read more…
NeuroBlade Tackles Memory, Bandwidth Bottlenecks with XRAM
Companies that are frustrated by the performance of memory- or network-bound analytics workloads may be interested in learning about NeuroBlade, a hardware startup developing a new processing-in-memory (PIM) architecture Read more…
Did Rockset Just Solve Real-Time Analytics?
Companies have been pushing the envelope of real-time analytics and what technology is capable of for many years. Along that vein, Rockset today claimed it has smashed through the barriers preventing customers from runni Read more…
dbt Rides Wave of Modern, Cloud-Based ETL to New Heights
The explosion of data analytics on the cloud has been good for Fishtown Analytics, the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based company that was behind the popular open source data built tool, or dbt. Now the company is looking Read more…
ChaosSearch Widens the Zone for Data Lake Analytics
When ChaosSearch emerged from stealth last year, its mantra was all about enabling customers to run log analytics on massive amounts of data in Amazon S3 using familiar tools, like Kibana. With today’s update, the comp Read more…
50 Years Of ETL: Can SQL For ETL Be Replaced?
It’s hard to imagine data warehousing without ETL (extract, transformation, and load). For decades, analysts and engineers have embraced no-code ETL solutions for increased maintainability. Does this mean that Struct Read more…
Dataiku Gets Closer to Snowflake
Dataiku today revealed that Snowflake has invested an undisclosed amount in the data science platform provider. This comes several months after the two companies rolled out a joint offering that allows Dataiku customers Read more…
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