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Apache Pinot Uncorks Real-Time Data for Ad-Tech Firm
A year ago, customers of Sovrn’s affiliate marketing business could expect to wait 24 to 48 hours before getting access to new data describing online consumer behavior. That didn’t cut it, so the company looked to a Read more…
Inside Nextdata’s Plans for a Data Mesh Offering
Organizations that are struggling to build data products in a controlled and repeatable fashion may want to keep an eye on Zhamak Dehghani’s startup Nextdata, which is currently developing software that will automate m Read more…
Open Table Formats Square Off in Lakehouse Data Smackdown
If you’re constructing a data lakehouse today, you’ll need a table format to build on. But which open table format should you choose: Apache Iceberg, Databricks Delta Table, or Apache Hudi? A good place to start is i Read more…
Five Drivers Behind the Rapid Rise of Apache Flink
In 2022 alone, a total of at least $55 million has been invested by venture capitalists into startups building companies around Apache Flink, the open source project that’s used to process data streams at large scale a Read more…
Database Futures with a Cockroach Labs Co-Founder
Databases have evolved considerably over the past decade, but there’s still quite a bit more that databases can do, according to Cockroach Labs Co-Founder and CTO Peter Mattis, who sees serverless and multi-cloud capab Read more…
Cloud Databases Are Maturing Rapidly, Gartner Says
The mad dash to the cloud continues, but now we’re entering a maturation phase that’s bringing more advanced capabilities for both analytical and transactional workloads in the cloud, Gartner analysts wrote in their Read more…
Immuta Completes Pivots to Data Security with New Product
You may know Immuta as a longtime provider of data governance tools. But with the launch of Immuta Detect, the company has completed its pivot to becoming a data security provider for cloud-based data warehouse users. Read more…
Are Databases Becoming Just Query Engines for Big Object Stores?
Object storage is winning the battle for big data storage in such a convincing fashion that database makers are beginning to cede data storage to object storage vendors and concentrating instead on optimizing their SQL q Read more…
Top 12 Datanami Stories of 2022
With another year almost behind us, it’s time to sit back and consider what we’ve just been through. It’s been another active 12 months in the big data space, with plenty of news for the intrepid big data reader. Read more…
Fivetran Benchmarks Five Cloud Data Warehouses
ETL software maker Fivetran this week released results of a benchmark test it ran comparing the cost and performance of five cloud data warehouses, including BigQuery, Databricks, Redshift, Snowflake, and Synapse. The bi Read more…
This Just In
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., June 28, 2023 — Alation, Inc. announced at Snowflake’s annual user conference, Snowflake Summit 2023, the launch of the Open Data Quality Framework to bring best-of-breed data quality and data observability capabilities to the Snowflake Data Cloud. Read more…
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., June 28, 2023 — Informatica, an enterprise cloud data management leader, has announced the launch of four new product capabilities to bring greater simplicity, speed, and performance to data integration and replication for customers in the Snowflake ecosystem: Read more…
LAS VEGAS, June 28, 2023 — Sigma Computing, the fast, easy-to-use, and powerful alternative to traditional business intelligence (BI), announced at Snowflake’s annual user conference, Snowflake Summit 2023, that it has been named Business Intelligence Partner of the Year by Snowflake, the Data Cloud company. Read more…
SAN FRANCISCO, June 27, 2023 — Census, a leading data activation and reverse ETL platform that syncs customer data from data warehouses to key business tools, today announced at Snowflake’s annual user conference, Snowflake Summit 2023, the launch of new features, Powered by Snowflake, that empower users to activate data using Python to run complex data transformation models on Snowflake. Read more…
LAS VEGAS, June 27, 2023 — RelationalAI, the industry’s first AI coprocessor for cloud platforms and language models, today announced its preview availability at Snowflake’s annual user conference, Snowflake Summit 2023. Read more…
LAS VEGAS, June 27, 2023 — Snowflake and NVIDIA today announced at Snowflake Summit 2023 that they are partnering to provide businesses of all sizes with an accelerated path to create customized generative AI applications using their own proprietary data, all securely within the Snowflake Data Cloud. Read more…
BOZEMAN, Mont., June 26, 2023 — Snowflake, the Data Cloud company, today announced an expanded partnership with Microsoft, enabling new product integrations across AI, low code/no code application development, data governance, and more. Read more…
June 22, 2023 — Snowflake has announced the finalists and winners of the fifth annual Data Drivers Awards for North America, the premier Data Cloud awards that honor Snowflake customers leading their organizations and reimagining what’s possible with the Data Cloud across their industries. Read more…
MARLBOROUGH, Mass., June 16, 2023 — Quantiphi, an AI-first digital engineering company, today announced that it has achieved Elite tier partner status from Snowflake. Read more…
BOZEMAN, Mont., June 6, 2023 — Snowflake today announced the launch of the Government & Education Data Cloud, which unites Snowflake’s data platform, Snowflake- and partner-delivered solutions, and industry-specific datasets. Read more…