Anirban Ghoshal
Senior Writer
Anirban Ghoshal is a senior writer, covering enterprise software for CIO and databases and cloud infrastructure for InfoWorld.
IBM acquires data observability firm Databand.ai
Databand’s data observability platform allows data engineers to tackle challenges associated with bad data at source.
India opens up its digital payments systems and other key tech
India Stack, which started with a digital identity project in 2010 under the name Aadhaar, offers several open APIs for paperless and cashless service delivery.
DataStax makes Astra Streaming service generally available
Astra Streaming has been in beta across 977 enterprises since last year and is also integrated into Datastax’s serverless managed database, AstraDB, giving it the ability to support applications built on data-in-motion.
Yugabyte adds Voyager migration service to its 2.15 database update
With the latest update, the company claims it is the first and only distributed SQL database to offer all three PostgreSQL isolation levels.
Databricks adds data governance, marketplace features
The data marketplace and other features are expected to accelerate data engineering tasks with an option for data monetization down the road, Databricks said.
Databricks open sources its Delta Lake data lakehouse
Databricks is open sourcing Delta Lake to counter criticism from rivals and take on Apache Iceberg as well as data warehouse products from Snowflake, Starburst, Dremio, Google Cloud, AWS, Oracle and HPE.
Apache Doris just 'graduated': Why care about this SQL data warehouse
The open source, massively parallel processing (MPP) analytical database will take on the likes of ClickHouse, MariaDB, Apache Druid, Apache Pinot, and hyperscaler services such as Google BigQuery, Amazon RedShift and Microsoft...
Aerospike partners with Starburst to jump on the SQL bandwagon
Aerospike is jumping on the trend for NoSQL database providers to allow users to query data with popular SQL-based business intelligence and analytics tools, to reach a broader customer base.
Snowflake taps Python to take on Teradata, Google BigQuery, and Amazon Redshift
Snowflake's updates include support for Python on the Snowpark application development system , data access capabilities, and external tables for on-premises storage.
Snowflake switches gears, from data warehouse to application cloud
With its new Native Application Framework, Snowflake offers developers the ability to build and run applications on a common cloud-based data platform and leverage its Data Marketplace to monetize those apps.
How MongoDB's NoSQL database is encroaching on relational database turf
Updates announced at the company’s annual MongoDB World conference this week include new analytics capabilities, a data lake for its Atlas database as a service, and the ability to query encrypted data.