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.

Hortonworks files S-1, AWS introduces Aurora. And more

For @451Research clients: @Hortonworks puts its Hadoop strategy to the test with planned IPO http://t.co/zqPhNUOgrM By me and @ScottDenne

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 12, 2014

For @451Research clients: @SnowflakeDB exits stealth with Elastic Data Warehouse, adds funding http://t.co/ruG0TCTAwh By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 11, 2014

For @451Research clients: @NuoDB swiftly updates its distributed database to address both transactions and analytics http://t.co/zAqPZtYLkn

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 17, 2014

For @451Research clients: @Talend illuminates data management business as it heads toward IPO http://t.co/LDluShxU0R By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 14, 2014

For @451Research clients: @GridGain ignites In-Memory Data Fabric via new Apache incubator project http://t.co/g69xkK3Yj5

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 10, 2014

For @451Research clients: The rise of the narrative as a complement to visualization in analytics http://t.co/0XX715AAHu

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 17, 2014

Cloud Price Index: variation in NoSQL market price 10x that of Compute. Some, not all, services commoditizing. https://t.co/l4yFBoRnuY [$]

— Owen Rogers (@owenrog) November 11, 2014

Hortonworks Files Registration Statement with SEC for an Initial Public Offering http://t.co/6rNlguUJiE

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 11, 2014

Amazon Web Services launches Aurora, a fully-managed, MySQL-compatible, relational database engine http://t.co/lk3MpGopOY

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 12, 2014

The Apache CouchDB project has announced the Developer Preview of CouchDB 2.0, including clustering enhancements. http://t.co/K9UX93kX0n

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 17, 2014

And that’s the data day, today.