GoodData and Visa: A common data-driven future?

From user, to partner and investor. That's not a very common scenario for software vendors, especially if the user-cum-partner-investor is someone like Visa. GoodData is evolving more than its relationship with select users.
Read More →Open source observability, meet data transformation: Grafana 7.0 promises to connect, unify, and visualize all your data

Grafana Labs sets the bar for open source observability with Grafana 7.0: more developer friendly, more data sources, data transformation, and growth in the cloud and on premise
Read More →Open source database ScyllaDB 4.0 promises Apache Cassandra, Amazon DynamoDB drop-in replacement

ScyllaDB has made a name for itself as a fast drop-in replacement for Apache Cassandra. Now it ups the ante, offering Amazon DynamoDB compatibility and new features, promising superior performance, lower total cost of ownership and no vendor lock-in
Read More →A Gmail for databases: CockroachDB aims for the top, stocks up with $86.6M new funding

Stay-at-home means more remote work and more online business globally. Global business online means a global database makes more sense, and Cockroach DB is making a play for a bigger piece of a growing pie
Read More →Open source PostgreSQL on steroids: Swarm64 database acceleration software for performance improvement and analytics

Take the 4th most popular database in the world. Make it run 20 times faster, lower costs by 70%, use it for analytics, time series, and data warehousing workloads. This is what Swarm64 database acceleration software promises
Read More →Optimizing hardware infrastructure with data and AI: Granulate scores $12 million Series A funding

How does boosting hardware performance between 20% and 80% sound? This is what startup Granulate promises.
Read More →Graph analytics and knowledge graphs facilitate scientific research for COVID-19

State of the art in analytics and AI can help address some of the most pressing issues in scientific research. Here is how top scientists are using them to facilitate coronavirus research.
Read More →Make Apache Cassandra great again: DataStax going cloud, Kubernetes, open source, and multi-model

Actions and words, code and advocacy. DataStax is changing strategy, re-engaging with the Apache Cassandra open source community, and releasing some interesting technical advancements while at it, too.
Read More →Business intelligence, meet graph. Neo4j introduces BI connector for data discovery tools

Mixing graph and relational data is now even more accessible. What does this mean for analytics, and for graph databases specifically?
Read More →Data science vs the COVID-19 pandemic: Flattening the curve — but how?

Whether they are epidemiologists or not, a few people have attempted to use data and predictive models to model the COVID-19 pandemic. Let's look at the models, the data, and the assumptions and implications that come with them
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