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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

Off-chain reporting: Toward a new general purpose secure compute framework by Chainlink

The upgrade in Chainlink’s oracle service could mean more data availability at lower cost, leading…

Feb 24, 2021

Up and to the right: TigerGraph scores $105M Series C funding, the Graph market is growing

The largest funding round to date in the graph market is good news not just…

Feb 17, 2021

Pinecone, a serverless vector database for machine learning, leaves stealth with $10M funding

Machine learning applications understand the world through vectors. Pinecone, a specialized cloud database for vectors,…

Jan 27, 2021

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

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