DBaaS drives next-generation database growth. CSC acquires Infochimps. And more

For 451 Research clients: DBaaS poised to drive next-generation database growth http://t.co/IQrVdtZMe9

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) August 8, 2013

For 451 Research clients: Monkey business: CSC acquires 'big data' PaaS provider Infochimps http://t.co/yb9ya9mslV

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) August 8, 2013

For 451 Research clients: SciDB offers a new Paradigm for large-scale data exploration and analysis http://t.co/8ltoHKapDq

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) August 13, 2013

For 451 Research clients: SAS Institute plots data management course with growing portfolio. http://t.co/eq9zL58oLG By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) August 14, 2013

Looker Data Sciences has announced a $16m Series A round led by Redpoint Ventures. http://t.co/mSeygN72Uo

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) August 13, 2013

Singapore-based big data analytics firm Antuit Secures $3m funding and acquires US-based Marketwell. http://t.co/yGrdI3ROHL

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) August 13, 2013

Tableau made a net loss of $2.6m on revenue up 71% to $49.9m in Q2. http://t.co/bTek15ljXH

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) August 13, 2013

"Google officially told us that their new SQL service will be based on MariaDB" http://t.co/kbnxgSWBS1 Monty Widenius

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) August 14, 2013

Basho has announced the availability of Riak CS 1.4 and Riak CS 1.4 Enterprise. http://t.co/WZHpdiQ2w9

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) August 13, 2013

Microsoft to open source a big data framework called REEF http://t.co/4XHDOEtBTF via @gigaom

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) August 13, 2013

DataStax introduces DevCenter, and Eclipse-based visual interface for developers. http://t.co/V3B03gPZNB

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) August 8, 2013

Google has added Google Query Language (GQL) and metadata queries to Google Cloud Datastore. http://t.co/s5kN6lZfV5

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) August 8, 2013

OpenStack Technical Committee has voted to expand Trove (formerly RedDwarf) to address non-relational databases. http://t.co/rTU2H7um9l

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) August 8, 2013

And that’s the data day, today.

Oracle launches Database 12c. Predixion raises $20m. And more.

For 451 Research clients: Oracle highlights multi-tenant database option with the GA of Oracle Database 12c http://t.co/Biblw0mXyt

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 10, 2013

For 451 clients: Actuate plants fresh stake in visual analysis ground with BIRT Analytics makeover http://t.co/xp0HcmMBxl By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 9, 2013

Oracle announces general availability of Oracle Database 12c. http://t.co/1bOou2XE0U

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 1, 2013

Predixion Software has raised $20 million in Series C financing. http://t.co/mqgnBRjaWF

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 9, 2013

Zoomdata Secures $4.1 Million in Series A Funding http://t.co/hTsRqJ6YyR

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 10, 2013

Garantia Data Acquires MyRedis http://t.co/G0uX95zffR

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 10, 2013

Basho Announces Availability of Riak 1.4 http://t.co/La9p7cwe0g

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 10, 2013

Terracotta launches Web Sessions 4 for distributed in-memory session management, based on BigMemory 4. http://t.co/5BFjxrflZd

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 9, 2013

Amazon RDS now Supports MySQL 5.6 http://t.co/KIJWkM5IZf

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 2, 2013

And that’s the data day, today.

Teradata Q1 disappoints. Actian acquires ParAccel. And more.

For 451 Research clients: Acquisitive Actian adds ParAccel to its growing database portfolio bit.ly/YgeY7k

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 29, 2013

For 451 Research clients: Tokutek releases TokuDB database storage engine as open source bit.ly/102xsSW

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 1, 2013

For 451 Research clients: Codership replicates partnership success with Galera Cluster for MySQL bit.ly/15dI8Hh

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 3, 2013

For 451 clients: Host Analytics lands $17m series D funding, shifts gaze to mid-to-large enterprises bit.ly/17z2zvT By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 2, 2013

For 451 clients: Dell details analytics strategy, refreshes Toad BI Suite and Kitenga bit.ly/102xr1m By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 1, 2013

For 451 Research clients: Xeround discontinues public cloud database service bit.ly/15dI9Li Analyst note.

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 3, 2013

Teradata reports Q1 net income of $59m on revenue down 4% to $587m. prn.to/15dIj5A

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 3, 2013

Skytree Secures $18 Million in Funding bit.ly/17vA4ix

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 30, 2013

MapR announces GA of M7 bit.ly/14VIL7R and the distribution of LucidWorks Search with the MapR Platform. bit.ly/14VIYrJ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 1, 2013

SoftLayer & Basho Partner for Riak In The Cloud bit.ly/157r1qt

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 30, 2013

10gen Announces MongoDB Backup Service bit.ly/17vEJB8

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 30, 2013

1010data launches version 6 of its cloud-based Big Data analytics platform. bit.ly/14VIzFN

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 1, 2013

Precog launches from beta with advanced analysis service. bit.ly/17z3ts1

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 2, 2013

Discontinuing of Xeround Cloud Database Public Service xeround.com/blog/2013/05/d… via @xeround

— Xeround (@xeround) May 2, 2013

SAS and Teradata have launched the Teradata Appliance for SAS High-Performance Analytics, Model 720. bit.ly/12NB3IM

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 30, 2013

Under the Hood: The natural language interface of Graph Search by Facebook Engineering on.fb.me/12Nz3QY

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 30, 2013

Why banks are BASE not ACID bit.ly/13Pczio Also What if all transactions required strict global consistency? bit.ly/13PcE5r

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 2, 2013

And that’s the data day, today.

Google pledges patent support for OSS. Basho open sources Riak CS. And more

For 451 Research clients: Basho takes Riak cloud storage platform down open source path bit.ly/YChz61 By @simonrob451, and me

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 25, 2013

For 451 Research clients: Continuent expands its database vision beyond clustering and replication bit.ly/YCcgJT

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 27, 2013

For 451 clients: Glassbeam plots course for its SaaS analysis service with unstructured data twist bit.ly/XDo3S1 By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 26, 2013

For 451 clients: Our take on what the Pivotal Initiative means for EMC, VMware and software-defined everything bit.ly/XDnW95

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 26, 2013

Google pledges not to assert MapReduce patents against users, distributors or developers of open source software. bit.ly/WYRW1W

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 28, 2013

MapR teams with Canonical bit.ly/13B3Sfk releases source code for Hadoop modifications on GitHub. bit.ly/13B42DC

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 28, 2013

Nice intro from Hortonworks for anyone looking for help understanding Hadoop 2.0. bit.ly/XDodZA

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 26, 2013

Platfora’s native in-memory business intelligence platform for Hadoop is now generally available. bit.ly/XDofk1

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 26, 2013

Akiban Server is OSS bit.ly/YChK12

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 25, 2013

(Apache) Tajo (incubating) is a relational and distributed data warehouse system for Hadoop. bit.ly/YChNdr

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 25, 2013

And that’s the data day, today.

MongoDB goes Enterprise. Riak CS goes open source. And more.

For 451 Research clients: 10gen accelerates NoSQL commercial plans with MongoDB Enterprise bit.ly/ZJoXhl

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 20, 2013

For 451 Research clients: JethroData raises funding to develop Hadoop-based analytic database bit.ly/11j5wgF

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 21, 2013

For 451 clients: The rise of the ‘predictive business’ – a machine-learning future for analytics M&A? bit.ly/11j5BRe By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 21, 2013

Concurrent Closes $4 Million in Series A Funding, Appoints Gary Nakamura as CEO mwne.ws/Yr669s

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 20, 2013

Riak CS – simple, available cloud storage built on Riak – is now open source. basho.com/riak-cs-is-now…

— Basho Technologies (@basho) March 20, 2013

Cloudera and T-Systems announce strategic partnership to deliver cloud-based data analytics based on Hadoop. bit.ly/16IZGck

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 20, 2013

Actian announced the launch of Vectorwise 3.0 analytic database with Hadoop integration. bit.ly/ZRnvZ0

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 19, 2013

Jaspersoft added more than 400 new customer deals in 2012. bit.ly/Y3lCfa

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 22, 2013

And that’s the data day, today.

Aster Discovery. Delphix and SAP. Hadoop use-cases. And more.

For 451 Research clients: Teradata updates Aster Discovery Platform with visual analytic functions bit.ly/WYiLni

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 21, 2013

For 451 Research clients: Delphix lands SAP endorsement for expanded database-virtualization software bit.ly/W7uOQp

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 22, 2013

For 451 clients: Yottamine launches R-based machine-learning service in the cloud for data scientists bit.ly/WYiIIa By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 21, 2013

Informatica moves into process automation with Active Endpoints acquisition bit.ly/W7uSji by @carllehmann1 and Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 22, 2013

For 451 clients: Red Hat plans Hadoop cooperation with open source Hadoop plug-in for Red Hat Storage bit.ly/WYiHni Analyst note.

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 21, 2013

Big Data’s New Use Cases: Transformation, Active Archive, and Exploration bit.ly/UMcQBr Great post on Hadoop’s role by @awadallah

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 21, 2013

SAP has announced the availability of SAP Sybase IQ 16. prn.to/WYiZuv

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 21, 2013

Basho introduces Riak 1.3 with active anti-entropy and faster multi-datacenter replication. bit.ly/UMbreh

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 21, 2013

The State of CouchDB bit.ly/WYkZDb (via @al3xandru)

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 21, 2013

Introducing The Couch Firm bit.ly/WYl7CE

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 21, 2013

VCE has introduced the Vblock Specialized System SAP HANA s.tt/1A2Dv

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 21, 2013

Understanding Unicorn: A deep dive into Facebook’s Graph Search zd.net/W7vdCH

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 22, 2013

Red Hat will open source its Hadoop plug-in for Red Hat Storage (GlusterFS) later this year. red.ht/134Rsem

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 20, 2013

And that’s the data day, today.

Teradata results. Funding for DataXu. The chemistry of data. And more.

For 451 Research clients: Oracle launches major update to MySQL open source database bit.ly/TSONAt

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 8, 2013

For 451 clients: Analyzing the chemistry of data bit.ly/TSOV2R By @451wendy Treating sensitive data like dangerous chemicals

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 8, 2013

Teradata: Q4 net income $112m on revenue up 10% to $740m, FY net income $419m on revenue up 13% to $2.7bn. bit.ly/14FNS8L (PDF)

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 7, 2013

DataXu Closes $27 Million of Growth Capital bit.ly/14UEbEy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 7, 2013

WANdisco launches WANdisco Distro (WDD) of Apache Hadoop bit.ly/TSPytp

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 8, 2013

Actuate connects BIRT to Amazon DynamoDB for business analytics. bit.ly/UDsdNO

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 7, 2013

Hadoop at Yahoo!: More Than Ever Before yhoo.it/WBrWrN

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 7, 2013

Drawn to Scale compares the various approaches to implementing SQL on Hadoop. bit.ly/WBs8ai

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 7, 2013

VMware vFabric PostgreSQL 9.2 is now generally available for download and purchase.bit.ly/WyZqsv

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 8, 2013

Datawatch has announced support for Hadoop and Hive with the release of Datawatch Data Pump 11.6. bit.ly/12ymJWD

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 8, 2013

Xeround gets performance boost, full test search by upgradingits Cloud Database to MySQL 5.5. bit.ly/UDrEUi

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 7, 2013

ANTs Software, Inc. Re-acquires ANTs Data Server prn.to/UDsiB3 It’s alive!

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 7, 2013

Data Fabric Design Patterns: Transactional Data Service bit.ly/WBrSIo

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 7, 2013

And that’s the data day, today.

Quantcast launches HDFS alternative. Glassbeam eyes funding. And more.

For 451 Research clients: Quantcast launches open source Hadoop file system alternative bit.ly/Ot6Zz6 Analyst Note

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 28, 2012

NoSQL LinkedIn Skills Index – rebooted bit.ly/QZGZHP MongoDB accounts for 43% of all mentions of NoSQL projects in LinkedIn profiles

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 28, 2012

For 451 clients: Glassbeam eyes series A funding, illuminates roadmap for machine-generated analytics bit.ly/UMaMsz By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 27, 2012

For 451 Research clients: ‘Big data’ and development platform are the next steps for Splunk bit.ly/UMaBgM By Dennis Callaghan

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 27, 2012

View the webinar The Business Advantage of Hadoop: Lessons from the Field bit.ly/QnLqPh w/ @451research, @yp, @blackberry, @mikeolson

— Cloudera (@cloudera) September 26, 2012

Quantcast launches QFS – an open source alternative to HDFS, evolved from Kosmos/CloudStore bit.ly/Sca5CU

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 27, 2012

Derrick Harris has more detail on Quantcast’s bigger, faster, stronger Hadoop file system gigaom.com/data/quantcast…

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 27, 2012

Interesting new perspective on bug fix test case brouhaha RT @webmink: Oracle Claims MySQL IS Safe With Them:wmk.me/PpXGvM

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 27, 2012

MariaDB directions: multi-source replication & more! blog.mariadb.org/mariadb-direct…

— SkySQL Ab (@skysql) September 28, 2012

Huge news: Basho Japan has officially opened its doors! #Riak basho.com/news/basho_ope…

— Basho Technologies (@basho) September 27, 2012

What no Big Data 2.0? RT @datameer: What is going to replace the “Big Data” buzzword & when? @kdnuggets poll results: bit.ly/UIKBD1

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 27, 2012

And that’s the Data Day, today.

Basho joins CloudStack. Pentaho rides Hadoop wave. And more.

Basho joins Apache CloudStack project -collaborates with Citrix on distributed object storage. bit.ly/Q6RNaP

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 5, 2012

MariaDB Galera Cluster is here: j.mp/Q2VQ3K #synchronous #multimaster #scalability

— MariaDB (@mariadb) September 4, 2012

A new post from me on Hadapt’s blog about some new HDFS —> relational invisible loading technology. hadapt.com/blog/2012/9/5/… #bigdata #hadoop

— Daniel Abadi (@daniel_abadi) September 5, 2012

More than 70% of new Pentaho customers in Q2 are deploying on Hadoop. bit.ly/Q6Scde The rest split between RDBMS and NoSQL.

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 5, 2012

What Do Real-Life Hadoop Workloads Look Like? bit.ly/Q4VzNS

— Cloudera (@cloudera) September 5, 2012

And that’s the Data Day, today.

Basho enters Japan. US Senate/NSA open source policy and NoSQL design brouhaha.

For 451 Research clients: Basho enters Japan with IDC Frontier adoption deal and investment round bit.ly/MHwB4V

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 18, 2012

NSA Mimics Google, Pisses Off Senate bit.ly/MHyo9YOpen source policy and NoSQL design brouhaha (via @curtmonash)

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 18, 2012

What is BigCache bit.ly/MHzcvC Looks like a potential alternative to @terracottatech BigMemory ( via @al3xandru)

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 18, 2012

Nodeable Bolsters Hadoop with StreamReduce Analytics Engine for Real-Time Data Insights and Faster Batch Processing wp.me/p1YRIA-6g

— Nodeable, Inc. (@Nodeable) July 18, 2012

SAP Augments Embedded Database for Cloud Deployments prn.to/NMuiMZ SAP Sybase SQL Anywhere, On-Demand Edition

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 18, 2012

Apache Hadoop is very much like delivering lunch to 300,000 people in Mumbai bit.ly/NMCLQt

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 18, 2012

And that’s the Data Day, today.