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GoodData partners with Amazon on Redshift: When data goes cloud, cloud data goes into analytics

Adding support for an AWS product is usually a good idea for 3rd party vendors.…

Oct 8, 2019

The state of open source databases in 2019: Multiple Databases, Clouds, and Licenses

An extensive survey shows the attitude of the market towards open source databases, drivers and…

Oct 1, 2019

Graph databases advance: TigerGraph announces $32 Million Series B Funding plus cloud-based platform

Graph databases have been the hottest area of data management for a while now. Today,…

Sep 25, 2019

The new New Relic: Past BI and the dashboard, toward AI and AIOps

When applications and data change, what should a platform built to monitor them do? It…

Sep 19, 2019

Explorium secures $19M funding to automate data science and machine learning-driven insights

Part machine learning platform, part data marketplace, Explorium promises to automate data and feature discovery,…

Sep 11, 2019

Technical

2021 technology trend review, part two: AI, knowledge graphs, and the COVID-19 effect

AI chips, MLOps, and ethics. Knowledge, and Graphs. COVID-19 as a mixed bag for technological…

Jan 20, 2021

Lightning-fast Python for 100x faster performance from Saturn Cloud, now available on Snowflake

Python, the most popular language for data science and machine learning, gets a huge boost…

Dec 16, 2020

Meet Stargate, DataStax’s GraphQL for databases. First stop – Cassandra

A flexible API is key to database accessibility and developer friendliness today. Cassandra was lacking…

Dec 9, 2020

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