What happened in data and analytics this week has to be seen to be believed

For @451Research clients: Exploring the @MicroFocus–@HPE_Software deal from a data and analytics perspective https://t.co/cj1r5KkGWk

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 14, 2016

For @451Research clients: @SAP unveils HANA 2 database, targets digital transformation https://t.co/SHXbKZH5IC By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 15, 2016

For @451Research clients: @AtScale gets its BI beyond Hadoop strategy under way https://t.co/5oiWIX5vew By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 15, 2016

For @451Research clients: @PodiumData steps up data lake management expansion following $9.5m series A https://t.co/SSmagsrOpf

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 12, 2016

For @451Research clients: Platforms dominate the stage at @SAP TechEd https://t.co/PiOXC24waL By @dberkholz and @nickpatience

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 13, 2016

As database-as-a-service availability increases, prices begin to decline https://t.co/SGFfARpVxo @451Research #cloudpriceindex

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 13, 2016

For @451Research clients: The seven vectors of data platform decision-making – Part 2 https://t.co/enYJKPB2OA By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 12, 2016

Databricks has closed a $60m series C funding round led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA). https://t.co/RjngnFztTo

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 15, 2016

Microsoft Ventures has created a fund specifically for investment in artificial intelligence companies https://t.co/AoyPdTclup

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 14, 2016

MariaDB announces the general availability of MariaDB ColumnStore 1.0 https://t.co/UBbsyVTnIf

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 14, 2016

Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd says Oracle DBaaS has hit $100 million in quarterly revenue https://t.co/oXJ2vZooMU

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 16, 2016

Arcadia Data has announced the general availability of Arcadia Enterprise 3.3 https://t.co/JduOWkB47N

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 14, 2016

Crate.io has announced the general availability of CrateDB 1.0, an open source SQL database https://t.co/par3d4591a

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 14, 2016

1010data introduces version 10 of its Insights Platform https://t.co/ULnxNlnWEt

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 14, 2016

Ontotext has announced the launch of GraphDB 8, the latest version of its semantic graph database https://t.co/2wsfvwN8Fn

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 14, 2016

Oracle CEO Catz to join Trump transition team, remain at Oracle https://t.co/ttBiS1MulW

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 16, 2016

And that’s the data day, today.

Data Management of Things. And more.

For @451Research clients: The Data Management of Things: The Implications of IoT for Data Analytics http://t.co/T6U8o4PU4B By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 15, 2015

For @451Research clients: Google launches @googlecloud Dataproc managed Hadoop and Spark service http://t.co/q5Gxov3tzU

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 23, 2015

For @451Research clients: After $20m funding round, @BlueDataInc launches containerized Hadoop platform http://t.co/W4bafcEItZ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 23, 2015

For @451Research clients: @AdaptiveInsight sees three-year growth bump following $75m funding round http://t.co/YXvA0mYr2n By Jim Curtis

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 14, 2015

For @451Research clients: @arcadiadata realizes Hadoop-centric analytics vision with Enterprise launch http://t.co/Jo5fCZay1C By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 17, 2015

For @451Research clients: @Trifacta focuses on IT and end-user needs to grow data wrangling business http://t.co/TQqOFg4cRp By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 23, 2015

For @451Research clients: @waterlinedata takes inventory of Hadoop, readies new release http://t.co/jRNAMHslvL By Jim Curtis

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 17, 2015

For @451Research clients: Fresh out of stealth mode, @InteranaCorp celebrates Microsoft win http://t.co/F5kKRF6uVp By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 21, 2015

For @451Research clients: @ScaleArc's @ScaleBase buy extends load-balancing, sharding portfolio http://t.co/iBvrLGuzUf By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 15, 2015

For @451Research clients: @SkytreeHQ aims for enterprise strength with unstructured text data for ML http://t.co/igRq4NpHw9 By Jim Curtis

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 22, 2015

For @451Research clients: @TeraCrunch: using machine learning for smaller, smarter big-data services http://t.co/l9VLuZmgvp By @drkatyring

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 14, 2015

Streaming analytics vendor WebAction secures $20m in funding Led by Intel Capital http://t.co/wa5U0xognA

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 14, 2015

StreamSets raises $12.5m series A, launches open source data ingest infrastructure http://t.co/3fPbvi8DOo

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 24, 2015

Google launches Google Cloud Dataproc managed Hadoop/Spark service http://t.co/MG9ovtrltz

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 23, 2015

DataStax announces DataStax Enterprise 4.8, Titan 1.0 and Cassandra 3.0 RC http://t.co/mwd3TtA4kH

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 23, 2015

DataStax announces collaboration with Microsoft, DSE availability on Azure. http://t.co/PubmthJtVV

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 23, 2015

Spunk introduces Splunk Enterprise 6.3 with new HTTP event collector http://t.co/QT4R7RqApt

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 22, 2015

Trifacta updates data wrangling offering to v3. http://t.co/nb76wKGPP3

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 22, 2015

BlueData introduces EPIC 2.0 for deployment of Hadoop and Spark on Docker containers http://t.co/T4iYidqYKU

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 23, 2015

Platfora introduces Big Data Discovery 5.0, with Spark-powered data prep. http://t.co/5nEGX1yyqx

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 22, 2015

Zoomdata launches AnyCloud initiative including Zoomdata 2.0 and native support for Microsoft Azure http://t.co/poC8laqSea

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 24, 2015

Percona delivers Percona Server for MongoDB – a drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition https://t.co/tZaoqOd0Y5

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 22, 2015

Objectivity introduces ThingSpan, an “Information Fusion” platform for IoT data http://t.co/uWCMP6zKG6

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 22, 2015

Deep Information Sciences updates DeepSQL, MySQL-based database for the cloud. http://t.co/idLk0bqScZ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 17, 2015

Tamr opens public beta program for free enterprise metadata catalog http://t.co/UbvRAFlpUf

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 24, 2015

Dominance, disruption and cognitive dissonance: the analytics landscape – See more at: http://t.co/Stz5m0eAlh

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 22, 2015

WANdisco introduces WANdisco Fusion Migrator http://t.co/3G45rG7kUA

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 18, 2015

And that’s the data day, today.

New funding for Snowflake, Guavus, Redis Labs, AtScale and Tesora. And more

For @451Research clients: @SASsoftware improves usability of Event Stream Processing http://t.co/XjbsrJQTVd By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 26, 2015

For @451Research clients: @arcadiadata visualizes a harmonious coupling of BI and Hadoop http://t.co/jz1p8G2JCY

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 23, 2015

For @451Research clients: @PanoramaSW expands visual-analysis and discovery vista http://t.co/kCxwtzxKAG By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 24, 2015

For @451Research clients: @DataHero chases agencies, nabs $6.1m in series A funding http://t.co/2EtP5YAUHD By Jim Curtis

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 24, 2015

For @451Research clients: @tesoracorp closes $4.5m venture round for its DBaaS platform http://t.co/mB3LaY0o0Z By @alsadowski

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 26, 2015

Snowflake Computing announces $45m series C funding led by Altimeter Capital http://t.co/vDk1aJ5SHj

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 23, 2015

Guavus raises $30m funding from new and existing investors. http://t.co/lhGcVkIlor

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 26, 2015

Redis Labs closes $15m series B funding led by Bain Capital Ventures and Carmel Ventures http://t.co/9zZNhzIdsG

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 25, 2015

AtScale raises $7m series A round led by UMC Capital, with AME Ventures, Storm Ventures and XSeed Capital. http://t.co/qJsJ2imWvd

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 23, 2015

Tesora has closed a $4.5m funding round involving Rho Canada Ventures, General Catalyst Partners and others http://t.co/CRnZax5TB3

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 25, 2015

New Oracle cloud services include Database Cloud – Exadata, Big Data Cloud, and Big Data SQL Cloud http://t.co/T2UxCbWsCS

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 23, 2015

Platfora launches version 4.5 including its new Aurora Visualization Engine. http://t.co/eWRsHbkCSw

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 26, 2015

HP’s Trafodion transactional Hadoop project has been proposed as an Apache Incubator project. http://t.co/SOBdWVBB5E

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 23, 2015

MongoDB Management Service is now MongoDB Cloud Manager http://t.co/58cUOEpJNX

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 25, 2015

Azure SQL Data Warehouse opens for Limited Public Preview http://t.co/odHogIi2k4

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 25, 2015

Dell Software updates Toad family of database tools. http://t.co/YfHbMX7s9w

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 23, 2015

Crunchy Data Solutions has launched Crunchy MLS PostgreSQL, supporting multi-level security. http://t.co/mnFbe5YMHm

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 25, 2015

And that’s the data day, today.

Teradata supports Presto. And more

The June 2015 edition of the @451Research Data Platforms Map is now available for download http://t.co/wwMqmpcAtA pic.twitter.com/JSF5Z9io2W

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 2, 2015

For @451Research clients: (Hey) Presto! @Teradata enters the SQL-on-Hadoop community http://t.co/bb1VFIPUxv

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 12, 2015

For @451Research clients: MongoDB previews 3.2 enhancements, including native connector for SQL BI tools http://t.co/PDs6mbekq1

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 8, 2015

For @451Research clients: @Basho repositions to deliver multi-model distributed Data Platform http://t.co/BkIdJPsE3Y

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 2, 2015

For @451Research clients: @DataStax adds Live Indexing for mixed operational, search and analytic database workloads http://t.co/2PletdeeJ7

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 1, 2015

For @451Research clients: @Bluedatainc updates virtualized 'big data' platform, launches Docker-based BlueData Lite http://t.co/OtH8p5fYmD

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 5, 2015

For @451Research clients: @SASsoftware rounds out advanced-analytics with simplified text-analytics http://t.co/uBCakNoa0f By Jim Curtis

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 8, 2015

For @451Research clients: @Ontotext touts improved usability of GraphDB for text and data mining http://t.co/DmLvv5oUZe By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 9, 2015

.@Pivotal acquires Quickstep, a query processing technology company. The deal will augment Pivotal’s data process.. http://t.co/6KqDbIzAMq

— 451 Tech M&A (@451TechMnA) June 9, 2015

Arcadia Data raises $11.5m http://t.co/BK1TlNnAvB launches visual analytics platform for Hadoop http://t.co/OfjD9rsE3B

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 9, 2015

JethroData raises $8.1m series B funding http://t.co/1Hl3T0EOgx

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 9, 2015

Teradata launches enterprise support for Presto http://t.co/iLmIDadVJV

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 8, 2015

MapR launches MapR Distribution including Hadoop version 5.0 http://t.co/66kSsxJA4T, Auto-Provisioning Templates http://t.co/2d5yZ4kKTE

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 9, 2015

Pivotal acquires Quickstep query executiontechnologies http://t.co/HcIwoQ4DA6

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 9, 2015

MongoDB previews 3.2 enhancements http://t.co/ZVP4QlcOfR including connector for BI http://t.co/4mfTzFcPvZ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 3, 2015

Hortonworks launches Hortonworks Data Platform 2.3 http://t.co/SnaVt4DhOt

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 8, 2015

Peter Fenton’s latest investment is a database startup called Cockroach http://t.co/YEJTvj9kjf

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 4, 2015

BlueData announces support for Hadoop and Spark on Docker containers http://t.co/UoYUv2mgiV

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 5, 2015

Teradata expands JSON support http://t.co/lBIhxGfrYA

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 1, 2015

MapR to offer cloud-based Hadoop with Microsoft Azure http://t.co/atfUZsgAeC

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 10, 2015

DataTorrent open sources DataTorrent RTS real-time streaming as Project Apex – http://t.co/8n9ZKj2Xlj

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 8, 2015

Teradata launches RainStor version 7 for enterprise data archiving. http://t.co/TqNj6JO4aK

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 8, 2015

Teradata introduces Loom 2.5, now positioned for data lake management. http://t.co/cG1zTs7RIK

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 8, 2015

Datameer, introduces data governance capabilities for Hadoop http://t.co/hI4p23W2V5

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 3, 2015

Pentaho, now a Hitachi Data Systems company, launches Pentaho 5.4 http://t.co/urs1yykmyb

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 9, 2015

Twitter introduces Heron, a real-time analytics platform compatible with Storm http://t.co/9NnzeRLQpA

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 3, 2015

And that’s the data day, today.