A standard for storing big data? Apache Spark creators release open-source Delta Lake

From data lakes to data swamps and back again. Data reliability, as in transactional support, is one of the pain-points keeping organizations from getting the most out of their data lakes. Delta Lake is here to address this.
Read More →Graphs in the cloud. The Year of the Graph Newsletter: April 2019

The first sign of convergence in the graph space is here. Graph databases continue to grow, expand, and make their way to the cloud, a number of open source frameworks for working with graphs has been released, and a slew of new interesting use cases. Read the full article on the Year of the Graph
Read More →Google Cloud gives open-source data vendors a break. Will that save open source?

Google will give open-source data vendors that offer their software on Google Cloud a share of the proceeds. It's a good move, and a good thing. But there's more than meets the eye here.
Read More →Cloud native, chaos-tolerant FaunaDB adds support for SQL, GraphQL, and CQL

Tired of using many databases? FaunaDB wants to be the all-in-one solution for polyglot persistence in the cloud and on premise, and it just got SQL, GraphQL, and CQL
Read More →Run:AI takes your AI and runs it, on the super-fast software stack of the future

Startup Run:AI exits stealth, promises a software layer to abstract over many AI chips
Read More →Safety in data: Implementing data-driven road safety

Using data to improve road safety sounds like a good idea, but the devil is in the details.
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