Organizations that are in the market for analytics databases that can serve an enormous quantity of queries on massive sets of fast-changing data may want to check out the latest Gigaom Sonar report on real-time analytics databases. Real-time analytics databases are a relatively new product category that has emerged over the past few years to…
The Apache Spark community has improved support for Python to such a great degree over the past few years that Python is now a “first-class” language, and no longer a “clunky” add-on as it once was, Databricks co-founder and Chief Architect Reynold Xin said at Data + AI Summit last week. “It’s actually a completely…
When it comes to building great data products, all the key ingredients are available in the cloud–big data, massive compute, and sophisticated analytics and AI tools. What’s missing is an easy way to turn all those ingredients into finished products. That’s an area that a startup called DataOps.live hopes to fill in the Snowflake environment….
Snowflake is holding its Data Cloud Summit 24 conference next week, and the company is expected to make a slew of announcements, which you will be able to find on these Datanami pages. But among the most closely watched questions is how far Snowflake will go in embracing the Apache Iceberg table format and opening…
EnterpriseDB next month is expected to formally launch a new lakehouse that puts Postgres at the center of analytics workflows, with an eye toward future AI workflows. Currently codenamed Project Beacon, EDB’s new data lakehouse stack will utilize object storage, an open table format, and query accelerators to enable customers to query data through their…
When “The Social Dilemma” documentary came out in 2020, consumers called for a mass exodus from social media and the end of user data capture. While opening the public’s eyes to the inner workings of social media was important, it failed to show the benefits of online personalization that wouldn’t be possible without data collection….
One of the most popular new databases at the moment is DuckDB. With millions of downloads per month and two startups created around it, the open source column store has achieved feathery heights usually reserved for bigger, older projects. But what’s surprising is how it got there. In many ways, DuckDB represents the antithesis of…
As the amount of data continues to grow, so does the potential for advanced analytics to make sense of it all. In 2024, tremendous progress will be made in analytics, according to our merry band of prognosticators. It’s hard to avoid the siren call of generative AI. But as the calendar flips over in two…
AWS yesterday unveiled new EC2 instances geared toward tackling some of the fastest growing workloads, including AI training and big data analytics. During his re:Invent keynote, CEO Adam Selipsky also welcomed Nvidia founder Jensen Huang onto the stage to discuss the latest in GPU computing, including the forthcoming 65 exaflop “ultra-cluster.” Selipsky unveiled Graviton4, the…
Elasticsearch Query Language (ES|QL), Elastic’s latest offering that introduces a piped query syntax and supports concurrent processing, is being touted by the company as a major leap forward in data querying technology, claiming to boost productivity and streamline data operations for a diverse array of users including IT professionals and data analysts. ES|QL, not to…
