Data at Rest - What's Changed?

Concerns about reliability, security and data sovereignty have meant that some organisations have switched their applications to private clouds.

Ultipa Graph, one of the newer entrants to the graph database space, is approaching its 5.0 version update.

Less than five years after its initial release, Redis has announced that RedisGraph will be discontinued. Why?

After making an investment in the company back in 2019, Informatica has now announced the acquisition of GreenBay Technologies.

IBM have announced a new offering which provides an upgrade path for existing Netezza users who have not already migrated away from that platform.

Graph database vendor Franz Inc. has released the latest versions of AllegroGraph, and graph visualisation and discovery engine, Gruff.

SentryOne has acquired Pragmatic Works Software. This is unusually synergistic and non-overlapping.

Teradata has announced that it is spinning off the support and development of the Presto SQL on Hadoop engine, into a new company called Starburst Data.

This article discusses the current and planned features in Neo4j that specifically relate to performance and scalability.

Why is data governance so hot right now?

The second in this series of updates discusses recent releases from Ontotext

This is the first of several articles on the graph/RDF (and hypergraph) space. This one is generic, the others will be product/vendor specific.

Teradata will be reselling Alation's Data Discovery product in place of Loom.

Reltio provides analytic applications - think actionable insight - on top of an MDM foundation

Cray sees the convergence of HPC (high performance computing) and big data.

GraphConnect is (probably) the largest graph database conference.

There are some interesting new kids on the block in the spreadsheet world

Third party database providers are going to have some difficulty in persuading SAP that they can support S/4HANA

Stories are becoming broader and that doesn't necessarily make life easier

The graph database market is starting to consolidate. There are also interesting graph and associative database developments

It looks like product information management, at least some of it, is moving beyond the confines of MDM

EXASOL, in addition to introducing version 5.0 of EXASolution, has been expanding overseas.

SAP has just released version 16 of what used to be Sybase ASE. This release is very much focused on big data for OLTP.

In its new release Neo4j has extended its property graphs by including labelling

Calpont has released version 4.0 of its warehouse. Major features include extended cloud support and open source licensing plus the ability to run on HDFS.

Having not even digested Pervasive Software yet, Actian has now acquired ParAccel. Why?

I take a look at Pervasive's DataRush, potentially the most disruptive idea in analytics since Bill Inmon told us to build data warehouses.

DB2 now has so many storage engines that it's no longer accurate to simply call it "relational"

The MDM market may have been consolidating recently (with Informatica's purchase of Heiler) but there is now a new entrant. Pitney Bowes...

Lots of vendors bring out new releases at this time of year. Here are three of the less obvious but interesting ones in the database/warehousing/analytics space

After Mike Lynch's resignation and 27,000 job cuts at HP do the company's software products have a future?

InfiniteGraph is a graph database built on top of Objectivity/DB

Teradata and SAS have jointly launched an appliance. Given their respective positions in the market this is bad news for the competition.

The latest version of DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows is now available. Perhaps most interestingly DB2 can now act as a graph store.

Some thoughts about may happen next year in the information management space

IBM probably has the largest portfolio of products covering the big data space

Exasol has just published 5 TP-H benchmark records, all the way up to 10Tb

Six of the new generation of warehousing vendors have been acquired. Is there anything useful to conclude about the companies being bought?

TDWI annoucements: HP buys Vertica and Kognitio announces Pablo

Reports suggest that HP is pulling out of HP. Why am I not surprised?

RainStor and Teradata have announced a data retention appliance that could have a significant impact on the market

InterSystems has just released Caché

Good news for IBM; bad news for Oracle - why Bob Evans might just be right

Informatica has introduced a dual laoding option to support Teradata Active-Active implementations

Does the departure of Mark Hurd from HP sound the death knell for NeoView?

EMC is acquiring Greenplum - good news for them, bad news for everyone else

What's happening with analytics and what can we expect.

There are major questions about information management in SAP's acquisition of Sybase

Verica has announced a major new release, version 4.0

Consolidation in the MDM market seems about done

The Enterprise Edition of InfiniDB has been launched and it's pricing is going to hurt

Vendors are adding additional features over and above columns to get improved performance but does this mean that they are heading into a niche?

Will the trend towards registries and away from hubs become permanent?

Interesting things going on at Dataupia, Calpont and InfoBright

The introduction of Exadata V2 effectively makes Oracle closed and non-portability for high-end systems

We have just published our latest report into analytic warehousing. We've called it that because we are interested in environments where there is at least a significant analytic requirement that is...

Release 2 of the Oracle Database 11g is now generally available on Linux and will be for Windows, UNIX and other platforms in due course. As one might expect there is a lot in it, so I'll pick some...

The Madison was, of course, a dance. And it's where all those bridges are. But it's also the codename that Microsoft is using for its development of the technology it acquired when it bought...

Kalido has announced the Kalido KONA Information Appliance. Of course, as you will know, Kona is the word for capital in Hawaiian and, since the appliance is based on the Netezza TwinFin, the...

We will shortly be publishing my latest opus on data warehousing or, rather, on analytic warehousing. More about that when the time comes. But, of course, there's always stuff that you discover...

At TDWI this week, Vertica has announced version 3.5 of its eponymous product. This has two major features: FlexStore and MapReduce. Both of these merit discussion. Vertica is column-based....

The big news at TDWI this week was the announcement of Netezza TwinFin. Surfers amongst you will know that a twinfin is a surf board with twin fins at the back: they are supposed to be extremely...

MDM and data quality have always been closely aligned but three recent announcements have emphasised that point even more. Each of them involves a larger vendor leveraging the efforts of a smaller,...

Sun is a hardware company that has, historically, been rubbish at marketing and selling software. Oracle, on the other hand, is very good at selling software but has no experience as a hardware...