Data Modeling Articles
While change has always been a part of the database credo, the growing emphasis on data-driven decision making in today's economy has resulted in a dizzying plethora of technologies and methodologies entering the market. The number and scope of game-changing technologies are too numerous to mention, and one thing is certain: Database management will never be the same. We have identified some of the most promising technology initiatives, based on discussions with and input from data experts from across the industry spectrum, gathering their views on the key technologies—well-known or under the radar—that are worth watching.
Posted July 22, 2019
Data virtualization enables the ability to have one or more data stores that break the bank processing-wise, because they can physically exist once but logically exist in multiple transformed structures. Occasionally, IT managers get the idea that data virtualization is a more generic answer, presuming that if it works for the big data, it can work for all data.
Posted July 18, 2019
Collibra, the data intelligence company, is acquiring SQLdep, a leading SaaS provider of automated data lineage, empowering data citizens to uncover faster and deeper insights from data. SQLdep automates the discovery and visualization of technical data lineage and enables organizations to better capture context around data, understand data quality, support compliance initiatives, and increase trust.
Posted July 10, 2019
Compuware has introduced new zAdviser analytics to enable application development and delivery teams to make data-driven decisions that improve mainframe software quality, velocity, and efficiency. Compuware is also announcing expanded integration of ISPW and Git, the popular version control software. The integration helps developers with little mainframe experience work with mainframe source code. Changes in Git are automatically synchronized back into the mainframe where ISPW's automated build, deploy, and fallback capabilities can be leveraged in a CI/CD pipeline.
Posted July 08, 2019
SolarWinds, a provider of IT management software, is integrating AppOptics, the company's SaaS-based application performance monitoring solution, with its Loggly and Papertrail cloud-hosted log monitoring and log analytics solutions. AppOptics together with Loggly and Papertrail now combine application performance management (APM), distributed tracing, and log management to help technology professionals identify performance and availability issues before they affect users, pinpoint the root cause, and reduce mean time to repair (MTTR).
Posted July 08, 2019
Oracle has introduced the new Autonomous Database Dedicated service to provide customers with more control for their most mission-critical workloads. "Our Autonomous Database Dedicated service eliminates the concerns enterprise customers previously had about security, isolation, and operational policies when moving to cloud," said Juan Loaiza, executive vice president, Mission-Critical Database Technologies, Oracle.
Posted July 03, 2019
source{d}, a data platform for the software development life cycle (SDLC), is releasing a new Enterprise Edition with built-in visualization, management capabilities, and advanced analytic functions. source{d} enables enterprises to aggregate all SDLC data sources into one data lake where they can easily extract, load and transform source code, version control data, project tracking data, build systems data, configuration files and more.
Posted July 02, 2019
GridGain Systems, provider of enterprise-grade in-memory computing solutions based on Apache Ignite, has introduced new GridGain Developer Bundles, which include support, consulting, and training for GridGain Community or Enterprise Edition.
Posted July 02, 2019
RavenDB, a provider of database infrastructure solutions, is releasing its new RavenDB Cloud managed database service. RavenDB Cloud performs all daily tasks such as maintaining hardware servers, installation, configuration, monitoring internals, and security for its users worldwide.
Posted July 02, 2019
MongoDB, a provider of a general purpose data platform, is releasing an enhanced version of its core database MongoDB 4.2. Key features include distributed transactions, field level encryption, and an updated Kubernetes Operator.
Posted June 28, 2019
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is introducing new edge solutions, research labs, and programs to simplify and accelerate Intelligent Edge adoption. These initiatives will enable customers to create unique digital experiences and leverage analytics and machine learning to adapt to changes in real-time.
Posted June 19, 2019
Tamr has announced the general availability of the Spring 2019 release of the company's patented data unification system. Purpose-built to leverage machine learning, human knowledge, and—where appropriaterules to solve data integration challenges, Tamr enables organizations to create unified data assets that fuel analytic insights and operational improvements.
Posted June 18, 2019
Scale Computing, a provider of edge computing solutions, announced that the KVM-based hypervisor in the HC3 product family is now fully supported by Parallels Remote Application Server17 (Parallels RAS). When combined with Parallels RAS, Scale Computing HC3 enables administrators to rapidly provision and manage virtual machines (VM) thin clones centrally from Parallels RAS Console to make VDI solutions faster, more affordable, and easier to use.
Posted June 18, 2019
Alteryx has introduced Assisted Modeling, an interactive guide built into the Alteryx Platform to walk users through the creation of machine learning models. With the introduction of Assisted Modeling, the company plans to amplify the capabilities of analysts and citizen data scientists, delivering transparent machine learning in a code-free environment.
Posted June 12, 2019
At times, there is a need to have security within the database be a bit more sophisticated than what is available. On specific tables, there may be a need to limit access to a subset of rows, or a subset of columns to specific users. Yes indeed, views have always existed, and yes indeed, views can be established limiting rows or columns displayed. However, views only can go so far.
Posted June 10, 2019
CDC can greatly minimize the amount of data processed; but the cost is that the processes themselves become more complicated and overall storage may be higher. Costs are moved around, the final level of processing becomes focused on the minimal changes, and this minimization is the efficiency to be gained. Moving forward, using the data becomes standardized and ultimately straightforward.
Posted June 10, 2019
SnapLogic, provider of an Intelligent Integration Platform, is now a certified CoupaLink Technology Partner after successfully completing the certification to integrate with the Coupa Business Spend Management (BSM) Platform. SnapLogic's new Coupa connector uses Coupa's REST-based APIs to enable seamless data flow to and from the Coupa BSM Platform.
Posted June 07, 2019
SolarWinds, a provider of IT management software, is adding a broad refresh to its network management portfolio, boosting network security features and more. The addition of Network Insight support for Palo Alto Networks and key enhancements to the SolarWinds Orion Platform bring greater data visibility and scalability to IT pros.
Posted June 04, 2019
Datical, a provider of database release automation solutions, is receiving a patent number for its Database Change Management Simulator. The patented technology proactively forecasts and determines the impact of database schema and stored procedure changes before they are deployed.
Posted May 31, 2019
Enterprise agility isn't a single initiative but rather a collection of activities and technologies that lead toward that goal. This includes adoption of microservices, containers, and Kubernetes to increase the flexibility of systems, applications, and data by releasing them from underlying hardware. In addition, practices such as DevOps are helping to increase the level of collaboration possible for fast-moving enterprises.
Posted May 30, 2019
Red Hat is contributing to Microsoft KEDA, a new open source project aimed at providing an event-driven scale capability for any container workload. Using KEDA, Red Hat puts Azure Functions on top of its OpenShift Container Platform in Developer Preview. It is designed to behave the same way it does when running on Azure as a managed service, but now running anywhere OpenShift runs, which means on the hybrid cloud and on-premises.
Posted May 28, 2019
Apache Airflow is turning heads these days. It integrates with many different systems and it is quickly becoming as full-featured as anything that has been around for workflow management over the last 30 years. This is predominantly attributable to the hundreds of operators for tasks such as executing Bash scripts, executing Hadoop jobs, and querying data sources with SQL.
Posted May 16, 2019
NuoDB, the distributed SQL database company, has achieved Red Hat OpenShift Operator Certification and NuoDB Operator is available on Red Hat OpenShift. The NuoDB Operator will also be available at OperatorHub.io, a community Operator registry launched by Red Hat in early 2019 in conjunction with AWS, Microsoft, and Google Cloud.
Posted May 10, 2019
Instaclustr, the leading provider of fully managed solutions for scalable open source technologies, is introducing its certification program for open source technologies. Following a certification process across several critical variables, enterprises can build applications with even greater confidence - leveraging Instaclustr's expertise and management supporting 100% open source deployments of technologies including Apache Cassandra, that are fully scalable, performant, optimized, and secure.
Posted May 10, 2019
MariaDB Corporation's MariaDB Kubernetes Operator is available in the Red Hat Container Catalog and has achieved Red Hat OpenShift Operator Certification. The MariaDB Operator enables customers to deploy MariaDB Platform in a variety of database configurations in a Kubernetes environment and is a key technology for MariaDB's cloud strategy.
Posted May 08, 2019
AntWorks, a global provider of artificial intelligence and intelligent automation solutions powered by fractal science, is introducing ANTstein SQUARE. The platform is a fullstack solution that enables non-technical business users to automate end-to-end business processes quickly, easily, and in a scalable manner.
Posted May 03, 2019
Dynatrace, a software intelligence company, is extending its AI-powered platform to include IBM Z support for CICS, IMS, and middleware. The aim is to give customers precise information about the performance of digital services across hybrid environments; from modern cloud applications to the mainframe.
Posted April 29, 2019
Quest Software, a global systems management, data protection and security software provider, is releasing Foglight Container Management, a solution that provides real-time and historical analytics of containers. Foglight Container Management supports business's container initiative by empowering IT infrastructure teams to quickly identify incidents and proactively prevent issues from happening.
Posted April 26, 2019
Snowflake is partnering with Anodot, the autonomous analytics company, allowing Snowflake customers to access Anodot's real-time anomaly detection. With Anodot and Snowflake's emerging partnership, customers will have access to Snowflake's built-for-the-cloud data warehouse and can receive instant alerts and insights from Anodot for potential issues before they cost customers significant ROI.
Posted April 26, 2019
TigerGraph, a scalable graph database for the enterprise, is accelerating its cloud strategy by offering its platform as a pay-as-you-go service on Amazon Web Services (AWS). With the launch of the pay-as-you-go offering, customers will be able to enjoy a friction-free experience for using TigerGraph's fast and powerful graph database, without cumbersome acquisition and deployment processes.
Posted April 25, 2019
SAP is making enhancements to the SAP HANA database in the cloud and on premise, providing instant access to critical data and extreme performance to democratize in-memory computing. Updates include enhanced cloud support, persistent memory support with Intel, intelligent recommendations for efficient database management, new machine learning (ML) capabilities, hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) certification, improved cost-effective data tiering, and data security enhancements.
Posted April 24, 2019
Platform9, a provider of a SaaS-managed hybrid cloud, is introducing Klusterkit - a set of three open source Kubernetes tools that enable organizations to easily deploy and operate production-grade Kubernetes clusters.
Posted April 18, 2019
Quobyte Inc., a developer of modern storage system software, will be offering a TensorFlow plug-in for its distributed file system, providing increased throughput performance and linear scalability for ML-powered applications. Using Quobyte storage with TensorFlow helps to simplify and streamline the operation of machine learning.
Posted April 18, 2019
Kx, a division of First Derivatives plc, and Magnitude Software are releasing a new driver to enhance Kx's support for accessing large volumes of external enterprise data via the industry-standard ODBC. Using the Magnitude Simba ODBC driver, custom-built for the kdb+ time-series database, kdb+ users will now have a high-performance interface to seamlessly connect to third-party business intelligence tools such as Tableau, Microsoft Power BI and Excel, as well as other data visualization applications.
Posted April 11, 2019
Sumo Logic, a cloud-native, machine data analytics platform, is releasing a new bi-directional integration for Atlassian Opsgenie. This new offering provides DevOps teams with full visibility across the entire incident management lifecycle for improved monitoring, alerting, and troubleshooting when responding to service interruptions.
Posted April 11, 2019
Fauna, provider of a distributed OLTP database, FaunaDB, has announced expansion of its query interface with standard APIs to further boost developer productivity. Developers using FaunaDB will now be able to manipulate data directly using query languages such as GraphQL for web applications, as well as CQL for key-value access and SQL for relational workloads.
Posted April 10, 2019
When working on a multidimensional design, every fact table within scope should be handled with care. In an ideal world, each low-level fact table represents the metrics related to a business event. The meaning of a fact table, ideally, should be evident based on the table name and the composition of the fact table's primary key. Deciding on a primary key for a fact table is an important choice.
Posted April 09, 2019
SentryOne is releasing SentryOne Test, an automated framework for testing and validating business-critical data. Available as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering, SentryOne Test helps companies ensure that the data underlying business decisions is accurate and current.
Posted April 09, 2019
Teradata, the Pervasive Data Intelligence company, is adding three new offerings for its Teradata Vantage platform, reflecting Teradata's commitment to offering as-a-service capabilities to meet the needs of their customers. These capabilities provide choice and flexibility for customers operating on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, private cloud, or hybrid cloud environments.
Posted April 08, 2019