Databricks, the Data and AI company and pioneer of the data lakehouse paradigm, announced the general availability of Delta Live Tables (DLT), the first ETL framework to use a simple declarative approach to build reliable data pipelines and to automatically manage data infrastructure at scale. Turning SQL queries into production ETL pipelines often requires a lot of tedious, complicated operational work. By using modern software engineering practices to automate the most time consuming parts of data engineering, data engineers and analysts can concentrate on delivering data rather than on operating and maintaining pipelines.
HEAVY.AI Introduces New Capabilities that Enable Organizations to Gain Faster Access to Rapidly Growing Data Sets and Deliver Decision-Quality Information
HEAVY.AI (previously Omnisci), an innovator in advanced analytics, announced the limited release of HEAVY.AI 6.0, with general availability to follow in April. The new capabilities, such as HeavyConnect, deliver improved analytics performance and faster time to decision-quality information, allowing organizations to immediately extract value from their data. HEAVY.AI 6.0 empowers stakeholders to learn and make decisions based on data without requiring sophisticated data science skills or executing SQL commands.
Dremio Announces Open and Forever-Free Lakehouse Platform, Dremio Cloud, In Partnership with AWS
Dremio, the lakehouse company, announced the general availability of Dremio Cloud, the free data lakehouse platform and the addition of two new services: Dremio Sonar, a lakehouse engine built for SQL, and Dremio Arctic, a metadata and data management service for Apache Iceberg that provides a unique Git-like experience for the lakehouse. Dremio Sonar is now generally available, and Dremio Arctic is in public preview.
Accelerated Integration of Eventador with Cloudera – SQL Stream Builder
Within 5 months after the acquisition of Eventador, Cloudera announced that SQL Stream Builder is now being re-launched as Cloudera SQL Stream Builder. This is being done after it was fully integrated with Cloudera Data Platform’s (CDP) Shared Data Experience (SDX). This means that SQL Stream Builder can take advantage of the same unified security and governance as the rest of the platform does, using SDX.
Understanding NoSQL Databases: Document Stores
In this contributed article, Alex Williams, Writer/Researcher at Hosting Data UK, discusses document-oriented databases (also called: aggregate databases, document databases or document stores) and how they place each record, and its associative data, inside single documents. This database type is a subset of the NoSQL umbrella, which refers to the growing list of popular database management systems that use ‘non-relational’ models — i.e. databases that don’t rely on Structured Query Language, SQL.
Databricks Launches SQL Analytics to Enable Cloud Data Warehousing on Data Lakes
Databricks, the data and AI company, announced the launch of SQL Analytics, which for the first time enables data analysts to perform workloads previously meant only for a data warehouse on a data lake. This expands the traditional scope of the data lake from data science and machine learning to include all data workloads including Business Intelligence (BI) and SQL.
NuoDB 4.0 Expands Cloud-native and Cloud-agnostic Capabilities of Distributed SQL Database
NuoDB, the distributed SQL database company, unveiled NuoDB 4.0, featuring expanded cloud-native and cloud-agnostic capabilities with support for Kubernetes Operators and Google Cloud and Azure public clouds. This includes the recently announced Kubernetes Operator to simplify and automate database deployments in Red Hat OpenShift.
YugaByte Commits to 100 Percent Open Source with Apache 2.0 License
YugaByte, a leader in open source distributed SQL databases, announced that YugaByte DB is now 100 percent open source under the Apache 2.0 license, bringing previously commercial features into the open source core. The move, in addition to other updates available now through YugaByte DB 1.3, allows users to more openly collaborate across what is now the world’s most powerful open source distributed SQL database.
Sigma Announces Visual Data Modeling, SQL Runner and One-click Snowflake Integration
Sigma, an innovator in cloud business intelligence (BI) and analytics, announced its forthcoming release of a visual data modeling capability, SQL Runner, and one-click Snowflake integration, allowing anyone to explore data in cloud warehouses and generate insights in minutes.
What Makes GPUs, GPU Databases Ideal for BI?
What makes GPU databases ideal for BI? That’s what a new white paper from SQream DB wants to explain — incorporating real-world use cases to explain how you can turn your existing BI pipeline into “a more capable, next-generation big data analytics system.” Download the new report, courtesy of SQream DB, to learn more about how GPUs and GPU databases can help you organize and benefit from your next big data analytics system.