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02 Jul

Open lakehouse provider Onehouse lands $35M funding round – SiliconANGLE

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Managed data lakehouse company Onehouse Inc. said today it has raised $35 million in a Series B funding, bringing its total funding to date to $68 million. It also launched two new products to increase lakehouse performance and reduce cloud storage and processing costs. The company sells a data lakehouse as a managed service based on Apache Hudi, a popular data format that Chief Executive Officer Vinoth Chandar co-created while at Uber Technologies Inc. A lakehouse is a data management architecture that combines elements of both data lakes and data warehouses, combining large amounts of structured, semistructured and unstructured data…

02 Jul

SingleStore adds Iceberg support and speedier vector search – SiliconANGLE

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SingleStore Inc., developer of a real-time database platform that performs both transactional and analytical operations in the same engine, today announced native integration with the Apache Iceberg open-source table format and advanced search and scaling capabilities. Apache Iceberg is rapidly emerging as one of the most popular formats for storing diverse datasets. It provides transactional consistency between multiple applications, schema evolution, the ability to query historical data and the ability to roll back to prior versions, among other features. SingleStore said it’s addressing the often complex task of moving data into Iceberg-based data lakes, a process known as extract/transform/load. It…

04 Jun

StarTree broadly enhances Apache Pinot-based analytics platform – SiliconANGLE

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StarTree Inc., a startup commercializing the open-source Apache Pinot real-time data analytics platform, is adding new observability and anomaly detection capabilities to its managed service along with vector search functionality for Pinot. Apache Pinot is an open-source, distributed, real-time analytics engine originally developed by LinkedIn Inc. It’s designed to handle large-scale, low-latency data ingestion and querying and can execute complex analytical queries in real time. It’s highly regarded for efficiency and speed. StarTree ThirdEye, a real-time anomaly detection and root cause analysis application, is now generally available. It provides automated, multi-dimensional metric monitoring to identify the root causes of problems,…

29 May

MinIO expands its enterprise object storage offering to handle AI workloads – SiliconANGLE

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Saying generative artificial intelligence model training has changed the game in object storage, cloud-native storage startup MinIO Inc. today launched what it says is a major expansion of its product line that addresses the data creation and management needs of exabyte-scale infrastructure. MinIO sells a high-performance, Kubernetes-native object store compatible with Amazon Web Services Inc. S3 and permits rapid access to cloud-hosted data. Object storage is a highly scalable method for storing a wide variety of structured and unstructured data types distributed across multiple hardware devices. MinIO says that more than half of Fortune 500 companies use its software-defined object storage. The company said…

28 May

Confluent simplifies integration between Kafka stream processing and Iceberg storage – SiliconANGLE

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Confluent Inc. today announced new features in its cloud service that make it easier for users of its Apache Kafka-based streaming engine to store data in the Apache Iceberg table format. The new Confluent Tableflow enables users to convert Kafka topics, associated schemas and metadata to Iceberg tables with one click and better supports feeding analytic workloads in data lakes and data warehouses. That compares with what had previously been a “painful” process, said Addison Huddy, vice president of Kafka at Confluent. “Today, you have to think about how to partition data, consume it and write it out to S3 in…

28 May

Snowflake documents huge growth in AI projects – SiliconANGLE

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Leveraging its unique perspective on how customers manage data on its platform, Snowflake Inc. today released a report on the changes it’s seen over the past year in data and tools usage as artificial intelligence has grabbed its customers’ attention. The analysis of more than 9,000 Snowflake accounts found that AI use cases now dominate, with usage of the Python language, tags, unstructured data and purpose-built AI development tools all showing double- and triple-digit growth. Python is now the overwhelming favorite language for AI and analytics development, with usage growing by 571% over the past 12 months. Close behind is…

27 May

Circular.co raises $10.5M to facilitate recycling at large scale – SiliconANGLE

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Sustainable sourcing platform Circular Exchange Inc., which does business as Circular.co, said today it has raised $10.5 million to expand its database of post-consumer recycled materials and its platform for streamlining the purchase and sale of PCR materials. The company said it will use the funding to expand its platform beyond plastics to include paper and metals, add more customers and suppliers and enhance its platform. Circular is addressing what is says is a frantic effort by businesses to meet plastic reduction and net zero emissions targets. Only 18% of companies are on track to reach net zero emissions goal…

27 May

Aerospike reels in $109M to accelerate its high-speed database – SiliconANGLE

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Aerospike Inc., which sells a highly scalable, real-time NoSQL database management system, said today it closed a $109 million investment round led by Sumeru Equity Partners LP with participation from Alsop Louie Partners LLC. That brings its total funding to $241 million. Aerospike’s flash-optimized in-memory model scales from gigabytes to petabytes with high consistency and low latency. Its core markets are advertising technology, financial services, telecommunications, retail and healthcare. The model is available in an open-source community edition and as a commercial product with enterprise features. “Our value is that we can linearly scale with our customer and still deliver…

27 May

Qualtrics generative AI gives surveys a real-time twist – SiliconANGLE

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Today, Qualtrics International Inc. is introducing three new features to its line of customer experience measurement applications that incorporate generative artificial intelligence capabilities. They include a feature that makes it possible for anyone in an organization to easily ask questions and get feedback on customer opinions, survey customization based on responses and intelligent summaries that provide feedback without compromising the confidentiality of individuals. The capabilities are embedded in Qualtrics’ three product suites – XM for Customer Experience, XM for Employee Experience and XM for Strategy + Research. Qualtrics said they’re intended to enable companies to predict customer needs, address employee…

26 May

Starburst to release its Iceberg-based lakehouse as a managed service – SiliconANGLE

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Starburst Data Inc., which sells a commercial version of the open-source Trino distributed query engine, today announced a fully managed Icehouse data lake on its Galaxy cloud. Icehouse is an open-source lakehouse that combines Trino and Apache Iceberg storage. A lakehouse is a new type of data architecture that combines the flexibility of data lakes with the performance of data warehouses. Iceberg is an open-source data table format designed for data warehouses and data lakes that supports SQL tables on large amounts of storage. Iceberg’s schema evolution feature allows the data structure of tables to change over time. It keeps…