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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…

Rockset, SQL Cloud Service, Emerges from Stealth

An analytics and search startup launched by former Facebook engineers emerged from stealth mode this week with a cloud service that “runs SQL directly on raw data,” offering developers a quicker path from data to app Read more…

Picking Sides in the Customer 360 War

Don't look now but a war is shaping up among software giants to win the hearts and minds of consumers with big data and next-generation customer 360 analytics. Three separate groups, including Oracle CX Unity, the Open D Read more…

Dremio Fleshes Out Data Platform

Dremio today rolled out a version 3.0 update to its multi-purpose data analytics tool with new features like support for Kubernetes, a built-in data catalog, and support for Teradata, Elasticsearch, and Microsoft ADLS da Read more…

Kubernetes Is a Prime Catalyst in AI and Big Data’s Evolution

Kubernetes is becoming synonymous with cloud-native computing. As an open-source platform, it enables development, deployment, orchestration and management of containerized microservices across multicloud ecosystems. Read more…

With Eye on Oracle, MariaDB Buys Clustrix

MariaDB Corp. continued its buying spree this week with the acquisition of distributed database pioneer Clustrix, adding what the buyer said is a scale-out capability running on commodity hardware or in the cloud. Ter Read more…

Data Manager Eyes NoSQL in the Cloud

Data management vendors continue to target the growing number of cloud-native NoSQL database applications while shifting their platforms to Docker containers to handle microservices-based apps. Among them is Rubrik, w Read more…

Flink Delivers ACID Transactions on Streaming Data

The folks behind Apache Flink just delivered something you may not have realized you needed: ACID guarantees in a stream processing framework. According to data Artisans, its new Streaming Ledger offering could even repl 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…