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Back to the future: Does graph database success hang on query language?
If the history of relational databases is any indication, what is going on in graph databases right now may be…
Business
Big Data versus money laundering: Machine learning, applications and regulation in finance
Could financial fraud such as the Laundromat be avoided by applying machine learning to scan…
Disrupting insurance: data-driven customer value
Why hasn’t the insurance business been disrupted yet, and how could data be used to…
Devs are from Mars, Ops are from Venus: Can analytics bridge the gap?
Despite what they’d have you believe, Devs and Ops don’t always get along nicely. Pepperdata…
Why finance craves big data: A perfect storm of disruption and opportunity
The financial services domain, where real-time is measured in milliseconds, holds particular interest for big…
An analyst’s life: from Gigaom and Big Data to VisionMobile and Developer Economics and..Big Developer Data
The last post in this blog, a year ago, was about Hadoop security. We had…
Structure Data and the Competitive Landscape
Structure Data 2014 was another excellent Gigaom event. To anyone who has ever been to…
Technical
Unifying cloud storage and data warehouses: Delta Lake project hosted by the Linux Foundation
A mix of open source foundations and commercial adoption, the strategy adopted by Databricks for…
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…
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,…
Zira launches industrial IoT platform with data integration, marketplace, and AI-driven process automation
Could this hitherto unknown become the de-facto platform and marketplace for industrial IoT data and…
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…