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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…
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…
As Cloud Coverage Expands, Salaries Also Rise
The march to the cloud continued in 2021, as hyperscalers opened more data centers and customers ran more workloads in the cloud. As the cloud becomes the defacto standard platform for transactional and analytical worklo Read more…
A/B Test Like You’re Airbnb
A/B testing is a critical and oft-overlooked element of data science at high-flying tech firms like Google, Netflix, and Uber, but it can be difficult to set up a testing infrastructure. Now you can implement A/B testing Read more…
Big Graph Workloads Need Big Cloud Hardware, Katana Graph Says
According to Gartner, graph technologies will be used in 80% of data and analytics innovations by 2025, a significant increase from the 10% used in 2021. One of the companies hoping to capture a piece of this booming mar Read more…
Data Centralization Is Necessary. So Why Is It Still So Hard?
When it comes to big data analytics, there are some questions that can’t be answered without loading it all into one central location and running queries against it. There’s just no practical way around it, which is Read more…
Google Cloud Launches New Postgres-Compatible Database, AlloyDB
Google Cloud today unveiled AlloyDB, a new database designed to deliver the high-end performance and reliability features that enterprises demand while maintaining compatibility with the open source PostgreSQL database A Read more…
ThoughtSpot Prepares for Next Decade of Data
ThoughtSpot turns 10 next month, a birthday that seems at odds with the enormous changes the data analytics company has lived through the past three years. Here at its Beyond 2022 conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, Thought Read more…
Ocient Emerges with NVMe-Powered Exascale Data Warehouse
There’s only about 1,000 organizations in the world with exascale data analytics problems currently, but Chris Gladwin, the CEO and co-founder of Ocient, knows who most of them are. In the coming months, the tech entre 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…
This Just In
SAN DIEGO, Calif., Oct. 6, 2020 – Teradata (NYSE: TDC), the cloud data analytics platform company, today announced general availability of Teradata Vantage on Google Cloud. Read more…
Qlik Expands Strategic Partnership With Google Cloud With Integrated Solution for SAP Data Analytics
PHILADELPHIA, Penn. Sept. 22, 2020 — Qlik deepened its strategic partnership with Google Cloud today with a new joint offering focused on enabling customers to increase the value of their SAP data with Google BigQuery. Read more…
NOIDA, INDIA — Sept. 16, 2020 — HCL Technologies (HCL), a leading global technology company, and Google Cloud today announced the expansion of their strategic partnership to bring HCL’s Actian portfolio, starting with Actian AvalancheTM, to Google Cloud. Read more…
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sept. 15, 2020 – Google Cloud today announced that Looker, the business intelligence (BI) and analytics platform from Google Cloud, is hosting its annual data conference digitally this year, with [email protected] running from Oct. Read more…
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Calif., Sept. 8, 2020 – Conrad Electronic, the B2B sourcing platform, has selected Looker, the business intelligence (BI) and analytics platform from Google Cloud, to provide suppliers on its marketplace with access to valuable data insights on their products. Read more…
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 4, 2020 – Micro Focus announced the launch of Vertica by the Hour on the Google Cloud Marketplace.
SAN MATEO, Calif., Aug. 19, 2020 – Neo4j, provider of graph technology, announced that Neo4j Aura for Google Cloud Platform is now available as a fully integrated graph database service on the Google Cloud Marketplace. Read more…
SANTA CRUZ, Calif., Aug. 12, 2020 — Pre-employment assessment software company Harver has integrated Powered by Looker to create its embedded analytics offering, Harver Insights. Read more…
NEW YORK and BRUSSELS, Aug. 12, 2020 — Collibra, the Data Intelligence company, announced it has further expanded its partnership with Google Cloud, offering Collibra as a managed service on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Read more…SANTA CRUZ, Calif., Aug. 7, 2020 – Looker, the business intelligence (BI) and analytics platform that is now part of Google Cloud, is helping customers augment their data experiences with enhancements in three key areas: Read more…