
Tag: ETL
Databricks Invests in Core Data Engineering, Operations
AI might be driving the bus when it comes to IT investments. But as companies struggle with their AI rollouts, they’re realizing that issues with the data are what’s holding them back. That’s what’s leading Datab Read more…
dbt Labs Cranks the Performance Dial with New Fusion Engine
Dbt became one of the most used data tools thanks to its extensibility and simplicity. Now the folks behind dbt are taking the tool to the next level with the launch of a new Rust-powered Fusion engine, which dbt Labs CE Read more…
The Data Hat Trick: Three Winning Plays for AI-Ready Data
If you’ve ever watched a hockey game, you know that a hat trick—scoring three goals in a single game—is a major feat. It requires precision, teamwork, and a deep understanding of the game. When it comes to artifici Read more…
Fivetran Aims to Close Data Movement Loop with Census Acquisition
In its goal to create a fully managed end-to-end data movement platform, data integration company Fivetran has acquired Census, a startup specializing in Reverse extract, transform, and load (ETL), data activation, and Read more…
PuppyGraph Secures $5 Million to Advance Zero-ETL Graph Querying
Businesses are using AI, predictive analytics, and other advanced tools to gather more data than ever before with the hopes of gathering a deeper understanding of their environment, identifying patterns, and making more Read more…
How Proper Data Tool Investment Will Unlock the Power of Data for Every Organization
When it comes to data analytics, machines should be doing the heavy lifting. More and more businesses rely on data analytics to make smarter, more informed business decisions and to stay on top of industry changes amid c Read more…
Couchbase Launches Column Store to Activate Dormant JSON Data
Couchbase says the new column store that it officially launched today on AWS will streamline analytics on “dormant” JSON data residing in its NoSQL database. The company also launched vector search capabilities in th Read more…
Acceldata Primed for Booming Data Observability Market
The data observability market is booming, as companies look to get a handle on their data flows in preparation for generative AI and other data-intensive initiatives. That’s good news for vendors like Acceldata, which Read more…
Data Is the Foundation for GenAI, MIT Tech Review Says
Pretrained large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4 and Gemini are great, but real competitive advantage comes from combining LLMs with private data. Unfortunately, there are questions as to how well companies have prepar Read more…
Breaking Down Silos, Building Up Insights: Implementing a Data Fabric
Data is the lifeblood of modern business, but for commercial-sized companies, managing and leveraging data can feel like navigating a maze. But what if there was a way to simplify the journey and unlock the full potentia Read more…
Matillion Bringing AI to Data Pipelines
Data engineers historically have toiled away in the virtual basement, doing the dirty work of spinning raw data into something usable by data scientists and analysts. The advent of generative AI is changing the nature of Read more…
Unlock Your Data Initiatives with DataOps
Across every industry, companies continue to put increased focus on gathering data and finding innovative ways to garner actionable insights. Organizations are willing to invest significant time and money to make that ha Read more…
EDB Puts Postgres in the Middle of Analytics Workflow with New Lakehouse Stack
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 Read more…
Salesforce In Talks To Buy Informatica: Report
Informatica, one of the preeminent names in ETL, is considering a deal to be acquired by enterprise cloud software provider Salesforce, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal last week. If completed, the deal w Read more…
Data Quality Getting Worse, Report Says
For as long as “big data” has been a thing, data quality has been a big question mark. Working with data to make it suitable for analysis was the task that data professionals spent the bulk of their time doing 15 yea Read more…
Voltron Aims to Unblock AI with GPU-Accelerated Data Processing
Data is at the heart of artificial intelligence, but it’s also emerging as one of its biggest bottlenecks. Without sufficient quantities of good, clean data to feed into models, companies simply can’t reap the reward Read more…
AWS Plots Zero-ETL Connections to Azure and Google
At the recent re:Invent show, AWS unveiled new zero-ETL connections that will eliminate the need for customers to build and maintain data pipelines between various AWS data services, including Redshift, Aurora, DynamoDB, Read more…
Matillion Looks to Unlock Data for AI
The rise of generative AI has put renewed focus on the importance of data. Without data that’s high in quality and up-to-date, an AI model simply will not generate output that’s as good as a model that has data with Read more…
Databricks Make a CDC Play with Arcion Acquisition
The quicker you can access transactional data directly from the change log of a database, the quicker you can do analytics or AI on it. That’s the basic math behind Databricks’ announcement today that it intends to a Read more…
Tristan Handy’s Audacious Vision of the Future of Data Engineering
Tristan Handy is a lot of things: co-creator of dbt, founder and CEO of dbt Labs, and self-described “startup person.” But besides leading dbt Labs to a $4 billion valuation, he is one more thing: An audacious dreame Read more…