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Big Data Career Notes for December 2024
It’s that time of month again–time for Big Data Career Notes, a monthly feature where we keep you up-to-date on the latest career developments for individuals in the big data community. Whether it’s a promotion, ne Read more…
Spark-to-Starburst Engine Swap Speeds Big Driving Data for Arity
The IT team at Arity are cruising on the homestretch of a big project to load more than a trillion miles of driving data into a new database on Amazon S3. But if it wasn’t for a decision to switch out its engine from S Read more…
Honeycomb Sees Sweet Reward in Unifying Dev, Ops
“DevOps” is so easy to say. But the simple phrase masks an uneasy tension between development and operations that can lead to poor communication and ultimately poor management of increasingly complex tech stacks. Add Read more…
Confluent Goes On Prem with Apache Flink Stream Processing
Organizations that want to take advantage of Apache Flink’s class-leading stream processing capabilities but don’t want to run the setup in the cloud were given another option today when Confluent announced the gener Read more…
Amazon Taps Automated Reasoning to Safeguard Critical AI Systems
Amazon is implementing AI aggressively across its business in a bid to improve operational efficiency, delight customers, and ultimately make money. But adopting probabilistic systems that don’t always behave as expect Read more…
News In Brief
CDOAs Are Struggling To Measure Data, Analytics, And AI Impact: Gartner Report
In our data-driven world, organizations strive to leverage data effectively, but the executives tasked with proving its value are struggling to achieve their core objectives. Nearly one-third (30%) of Chief Data and Anal Read more…
Semantic Layers Gain Momentum as AtScale and Cube Expand Integrations
As enterprises continue to embrace cloud-based analytics, the need for robust semantic layers is becoming increasingly evident. It helps organizations with data access, ensures consistency across BI tools, and enforces s Read more…
EDB Says It Tops Oracle, Other Databases in Benchmarks
EDB Postgres AI, the latest PostgreSQL-based database from EnterpriseDB (EDB), outperformed four other databases, including Oracle, SQL Server, MongoDB, and MySQL, on a pair of benchmark tests that span SQL and NoSQL wor Read more…
Redgate’s Report Suggests a Year of Consolidation in Database Management
With data volume and complexity continuing to rise rapidly, businesses are striving to achieve greater efficiency by reevaluating their database strategies. Instead of expanding their data stacks, many businesses are pri Read more…
Snowflake Unleashes AI Agents to Unlock Enterprise Data
Snowflake today announced the public preview of Cortex Agents, a new class of AI agents that can perform a range of business tasks using structured and unstructured data. The company also announced that, thanks to Anthro Read more…
This Just In
AUSTIN, Texas, March 5, 2025 — ManageEngine has announced the evolution of Log360—its unified security information and event management (SIEM) and IT compliance management solution—into an security analytics platform. Read more…
BERLIN and NEW YORK, March 4, 2025 — As AI adoption accelerates, enterprises are facing new challenges in scaling, securing, and managing high-performance AI applications. Today, Qdrant, the high-performance, open-source vector database, is introducing new enterprise capabilities in Qdrant Cloud that are designed to remove operational bottlenecks and empower large-scale AI deployments. Read more…
SAN FRANCISCO, March 4, 2025 — Today, Algolia is introducing a powerful trifecta of AI-powered ranking capabilities. For the first time, businesses will be able to seamlessly integrate multiple unique data signals, optimizing search results for multiple goals at once. Read more…
SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 4, 2025 — Couchbase, Inc. today launched Couchbase Edge Server, an offline-first, lightweight database server and sync solution designed to provide low latency data access, consolidation, storage and processing for applications in resource-constrained edge environments. Read more…
ORLANDO, Fla., March 4, 2025 — Through 2025, poor data quality will persist as one of the most frequently mentioned challenges prohibiting advanced analytics (e.g., AI) deployment, according to Gartner, Inc. Read more…