Tag: open source
Confluent’s New Cloud Capabilities Address Data Streaming Hurdles
Confluent has announced several new Confluent Cloud capabilities and features that address the data governance, security, and optimization needs of data streaming in the cloud. “Real-time data is the lifeblood of ev Read more…
HPE Brings Analytics Together on its Data Fabric
HPE today unveiled a major update to its Ezmeral software platform, which previously included over a dozen components but now includes just two, including the Ezmeral Data Fabric that provides edge-to-cloud data manageme Read more…
Airbyte Launches Premium Support for Its Open Source Data Integration Platform
Data integration platform Airbyte has announced the launch of its first premium support offering for Airbyte Open Source. Airbyte Open Source is a deeply customizable version of the company’s data integration platfo Read more…
Hugging Face and Databricks Streamline Dataset Creation with Spark
Databricks and Hugging Face have unveiled a new integration that will allow users to create a Hugging Face dataset from an Apache Spark dataframe. Databricks has written and committed these Spark changes to the Huggin Read more…
Meet Maxime Beauchemin, a 2023 Person to Watch
When it comes to prolific contributors to open source projects in the big data space, Maxime Beauchemin is definitely somebody you should know. As a data engineer at Airbnb, Beauchemin created multiple tools that he subs Read more…
Why Truly Open Communities are Vital to Open Source Technology
Every company in the world that uses software uses open source software. It just happens, because open source is packaged in so many places and arrives without anyone deciding anything. The forms filed by publicly tra Read more…
Observability Platform Acceldata Goes Open Source
Data observability firm Acceldata has announced a new open source version of its data platform for enterprise users. The company says this open source offering delivers stable and community-validated versions of data obs Read more…
Speedb’s Data Storage Engine Goes Open Source
Speedb has announced it is going open source with its enterprise data storage engine billed as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB. The company says making this technology available through open source brings an opportu Read more…
Google Announces Open Source ML Compiler Project, OpenXLA
At its Next ‘22 event, Google Cloud announced the launch of an open source machine learning compiler ecosystem, OpenXLA. OpenXLA is a community-led and open source ecosystem of ML compiler and infrastructure project Read more…
Five Things to Know About Web Data Extraction Now
Data is key to competitive advantage. If you’re a regular reader of this publication, you won’t dispute that. The question then becomes: Where do you get your data? While the option to simply buy external data from d Read more…
Security Concerns Causing Pullback in Open Source Data Science, Anaconda Warns
More than 40% of organizations surveyed by Anaconda say they’re pulling back on their use of open source data science tools due to security concerns, with potential vulnerabilities such as Log4j the number one driver, Read more…
Vector Database Company Zilliz Raises $60M to Enhance Cloud Offering
Vector database company Zilliz announced a $60 million extension of its initial $43 million Series B round, bringing its total funding to $113 million. Originally based in China, the company has established a new headqua Read more…
A Dozen Questions for Databricks CTO Matei Zaharia
Matei Zaharia is a very busy man. When he’s not helping to shape the future of Databricks as its CTO, he is helping to shape the future of computer science as an assistant professor at Stanford University. He also fi Read more…
Databricks Opens Up Its Delta Lakehouse at Data + AI Summit
Databricks, which had faced criticism of running a closed lakehouse, is open sourcing most of the technology behind Delta Lake, including its APIs, with the launch of Delta Lake 2.0. That was one of a number of announcem Read more…
Anaconda’s Commercial Fee Is Paying Off, CEO Says
Anaconda created a stir over a year ago when it began charging large commercial users a fee for access to its popular collection of Python tools. The change, it said, was necessary to offset the costs of maintaining a la Read more…
Voltron Data Releases Enterprise Subscription for Arrow
Voltron Data has announced its first commercial offering, the Voltron Enterprise Subscription for Arrow. With support for new and existing Apache Arrow users, the subscription offers exclusive access to features for enha Read more…
Taming the ‘White Whale’ of Unstructured Data
Unstructured data comprises a large chunk of all business data, and according to IDC, the figure could reach 80% by 2025. Data that is not collected or stored in an organized way, specifically language data in the form o Read more…
Hiring Outlook Bright for Data and Open Source Pros
While the future is uncertain for many types of jobs, folks in the tech business can rest easy knowing there is substantial demand for their services, particularly for data engineers, which was the focus of a new study f Read more…
Who’s Winning in Open Source Data Tech
Organizations understandably want the innovation that comes with using open source data management tech, but how do you know when it’s too green for adoption? A new survey from OpenLogic seeks the opinions of the masse Read more…
Druid-Backer Imply Lands $70M to Drive Analytics in Motion
Imply, the startup founded to productize the Apache Druid database in pursuit of analytics in motion, this week announced that the completion of a $70-million Series C round of funding. Imply was founded in 2015 by so Read more…
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