Total Data Analytics. Couchbase Server 2.0. And more

New 451 Research report: Total Data Analytics bit.ly/W0GuUy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 13, 2012

For 451 Research clients: Couchbase launches flagship distributed document-oriented NoSQL database bit.ly/UFiVd5

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 13, 2012

For 451 Research clients: FairCom straddles SQL and NoSQL with database engine update bit.ly/12kyYDC

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 12, 2012

Couchbase Announces Availability of Couchbase Server 2.0 mwne.ws/12kzaTt Couchbase Server becomes a distributed document database.

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 12, 2012

Cloudant announces availability of its NoSQL database as a service on Rackspace open cloud.s.tt/1wOKP

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 13, 2012

Garantia Data launches Redis Cloud and Memcached Cloud hosting services on the Windows Azure bit.ly/W0z2Zr

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 13, 2012

SQLstream launches SQLstream s-Server 3.0. bit.ly/UE1viY

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 13, 2012

And that’s the Data Day, today.

Cloudera launches Impala. Actuate snags Quiterian. Microsoft previews HDInsight.

For 451 Research clients: Cloudera launches Impala project for real-time Hadoop analytics bit.ly/R3l1mk

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 25, 2012

For 451 Research clients: Actuate snags Quiterian to plug advanced analytics and visualization hole bit.ly/OZWtOO By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 23, 2012

For 451 clients: Continuing its M&A software push, Dell moves into ‘big data’ analytics via Kitenga buy bit.ly/R3l95k By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 25, 2012

For 451 Research clients: MapR delivers enhanced HBase database with M7 Edition of Hadoop bit.ly/OZWEd4

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 23, 2012

For 451 Research clients: RainStor accelerates direct sales approach following $12m funding round bit.ly/OZVRsD

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 23, 2012

For 451 Research clients: Platfora exits stealth mode with self-service in-memory BI for Hadoop bit.ly/OZWJxo By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 23, 2012

For 451 Research clients: Cloudant adds search to cloud database service, targets intelligence community bit.ly/OZVWMZ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 23, 2012

For 451 clients: BigML revs machine-learning-based cloud service with predictive model marketplace bit.ly/OZW2nK By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 23, 2012

For 451 clients: Cleversafe seeks to take object storage into ‘big data’ era with Hadoop offering bit.ly/OZWbYr By @simonrob451

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 23, 2012

For 451 Research clients: Versant brings the Java Persistence API to its object database with Versant JPA bit.ly/OZW7b8

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 23, 2012

For 451 Research clients: EMC open-sources Greenplum Chorus platform for collaborative analytics bit.ly/OZWAtQ Analyst note

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 23, 2012

And the rest:
– Microsoft previewed its Windows Azure HDInsight Service and Microsoft HDInsight Server for Windows.

– SAP launched a new “big data” bundle and go-to-market strategy.

– Informatica introduced Informatica PowerCenter Big Data Edition and reported its third quarter results.

– Also announcing financial results last week were QlikTech and Pervasive.

– Teradata updated its Unity suite with the addition of Unity Loader, and introduced its Unified Data Environment and the Unified Data Architecture.

– Splunk confirmed the release of Splunk Hadoop Connect and the Splunk App for HadoopOps.

– 10gen added five vice presidents to its management team.

– Rackspace partnered with Hortonworks to create OpenStack and Hadoop-based offerings for public and private cloud.

– Talend added support for Cassandra, HBase and MongoDB , and introduced big data profiling for Apache Hadoop to its integration platform

– MarkLogic announced support for HDFS and expanded its relationship with Hortonworks.

– Kognitio adopted a free licensing model.

– Calpont launched InfiniDB 3.5.

– MetaMarkets announced that it is open sourcing its Druid streaming, real-time data store.

– YarcData updated its uRiKA Big Data appliance for graph analytics.

– Alpine Data Labs announced a global OEM partnership with QlikTech.

– Actian and Attunity announced Attunity Replicate for Actian Vectorwise.

And that’s the Data Day, today.

TIBCO’s Spotfire makeoever. The rise of data events. And more.

For 451 Research clients: TIBCO gives Spotfire ‘big data’ makeover including in-database analytics bit.ly/UQKZv2 By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 10, 2012

New MIS Spotlight report:Data events: the next step in security 451research.com/report-short?e…

— Wendy Nather (@451wendy) October 9, 2012

IBM launches PureData Systems for transactional, analytic and operational analytic workloads. prn.to/RbQN1n

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 9, 2012

‘You might need a decoder ring to keep track of IBM’s new product line, so let El Reg help you out.’ bit.ly/SOQpuP

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 10, 2012

The One Tool You Need To Make Big Data Work: The Pencil onforb.es/SOQv5G

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 10, 2012

Hortonworks Appoints Herb Cunitz as President bit.ly/UQL4if

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 10, 2012

Cloudant adds full-text indexing and search to cloud database service. prn.to/QaNcBx

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 9, 2012

SAS updates High-Performance Analytic Server with support for HDFS. bit.ly/UHrAlJ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 10, 2012

Savvis extends cloud database service to Europe. prn.to/PWa2L5

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 10, 2012

It’s the end of an era for me: “DynamoBI is dead, long live LucidDB!” bit.ly/R7dfvx – Sincere thx to all customers, community, etc.

— Nicholas Goodman (@nagoodman) October 8, 2012

And that’s the Data Day, today.

Informatica buys Heiler. Objectivity updates graph database. And more.

For 451 Research clients: In its second MDM deal, Informatica pays $104m for PIM vendor Heiler Software bit.ly/PUhWqw By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 2, 2012

For 451 Research clients: Objectivity positions graph database as relational complement with InfiniteGraph 3.0 bit.ly/PUhf0o

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 2, 2012

For 451 Research clients: SAP targets industry-specific analysis game with ‘analytic edition’ bundles bit.ly/PUhRTH By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 2, 2012

For 451 Research clients: Red Hat partners with 10gen to wake JBoss from its NoSQL slumber bit.ly/PUigpb Analyst Note

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 2, 2012

Oracle updates Business Intelligence bit.ly/Wg2gjT and Exalytics In-Memory Machine Software bit.ly/Wg2pUm

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 2, 2012

Cloudant has announced a custom development and strategic investment agreement with In-Q-Tel. prn.to/PUiywi

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 2, 2012

Big Data’s Biggest Obstacles s.hbr.org/Weixps

— Harvard Biz Review (@HarvardBiz) October 2, 2012

Amazon’s Relational Database Service is now part of the AWS Free Usage Tier. bit.ly/PUiInh

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 2, 2012

If data scientists are so hot, why are there so few data scientist job postings? bit.ly/VpjdsJ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 2, 2012

The remarkable growth of big data, as a research topic bit.ly/VpjHim

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 2, 2012

And that’s the Data Day, today.

SAP expands HANA. Informatica embraces big data. Gary Bloom joins MarkLogic. And more.

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* For 451 Research clients

# Informatica 9.5: ‘big data’ runs through the integration platform makeover Impact Report

# Lucid Imagination launches search-based ‘big data’ platform Impact Report

# Datameer updates Hadoop-based BI stack with an eye to more complex analysis Impact Report

# MarkLogic searches for operational analytics role with plans for SQL, MapReduce support Impact Report

# Infobright shines following shift to machine-generated data Impact Report

# Starcounter focuses on performance with in-memory database update Impact Report

# Guavus bears fruit with data-processing platform for communications operators Impact Report

# InsightSquared bags $4.5m series A funding and salesforce.com as an investor Impact Report

# MarkLogic names veteran exec Gary Bloom as new president and CEO Analyst note

* SAP Continues to Expand Capabilities and Scale of SAP HANA Platform and Ease Developer Adoption

* SAP HANA Offers Multi-Node Capabilities to Help Customers Scale Out

* Gary Bloom Joins MarkLogic as Chief Executive Officer

* Amazon RDS for SQL Server and .NET support for AWS Elastic Beanstalk

* Informatica 9.5 Unleashes the Power of Hadoop

* Informatica Brings Master Data Management to Big Data, Social, Cloud and Mobile Computing

* Talend Announces New Release of Enterprise Open Source Integration Platform

* Lucid Imagination Combines Search, Analytics and Big Data to Tackle the Problem of Dark Data

* Big Data Refinery Fuels Next-Generation Data Architecture

* 7 Key Drivers for the Big Data Market

* Google puts a price tag on Cloud SQL services

* Actuate and Hortonworks Collaborate to Visualize Big Data

* Hadapt and Cloudera Deliver Big Data Analytics with Apache Hadoop

* Cloudera Partners With Hadoop Managed Services Provider MetaScale to Help Large Traditional Enterprises Adopt Apache Hadoop

* Opera Solutions’ Big Analytics Tailor Made for SAP HANA: Signal Hub Technology

* Cloudant to Contribute Big Data Capabilities to Apache CouchDB Project

* Hortonworks and Kognitio Announce Technical Partnership

* Starcounter Unveils World’s Fastest Consistent Database

* XAP 9.0 – Geared for Real-Time Big Data Stream Processing

* How long before R overtakes SAS and SPSS?

* Betting big on live sports data, Perform lays €120 million on RunningBall

And that’s the Data Day, today.

Splunk goes public. SkySQL and Connotate raise funding. And more.

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* Splunk Prices Initial Public Offering 13,500,000 shares at $17.00 per share = $229.5m.

* Connotate Increases Momentum and Closes $7m Series B Round

* SkySQL Raises $4 million in Series A Round

* SAND Technology Announces Exploration of Potential Strategic Alternatives

* GoodData Closes out the Quarter With Increased Revenue Growth and Expanded Market Traction

* World’s Largest Telcos Adopt Graph Databases to Solve Connected Data Issues

* Gazzang Seizes Big Data Opportunity, Announces Record Quarter and Year over Year Growth

* Hadapt Adds Big Data Industry Veteran Christopher Lynch as Chairman of the Board of Directors

* PalominoDB and SkySQL Join Forces to Offer Unparalleled Remote Database Services to Leading Companies Worldwide

* Cloudant Data Layer as a Service Adds Support for Joyent Cloud

* GoGrid Introduces a High-Performance Platform for Predictive Analytics

* MongoDB Hadoop Connector Announced

* StreamBase Releases StreamBase LiveView 1.0

* Pervasive RushAnalyzer and Cloudera Eliminate Barriers to Rapid Hadoop ROI

* Pegasystems Announces Hadoop Big Data Support

* XtremeData Hires Former IBM Analytics Leader

* Lucid Imagination Announces General Availability of LucidWorks Enterprise 2.1

* Of open data and pregnant men

* Is UNQL Dead?

* MySQL in 2012: Report from Percona Live

* For 451 Research clients

# Will new offerings and price cuts encourage greater database-as-a-service adoption? Spotlight report

# Basho expands into cloud storage with Riak CS Impact Report

# SAP modernizes its application stack at the data layer and the mobile front end Impact Report

# QlikTech takes QlikView pricing out of the dark Impact Report

# Kitenga refreshes Hadoop-based content-analysis wares; finds rollouts a slow burn Impact Report

# CoreMedia looks to NoSQL to scale social experiences for its WCM platform Impact Report

# Boundary maps monitoring for ‘big data’ as its path to enterprise Impact Report

# Orchestra to add data quality notes to MDM ensemble as it continues to eye US growth Impact Report

# Columnar database provider SAND Technology puts itself up for sale M&A Insight

# Is it time for Microsoft to ditch partners for performance management and go shopping? Acquirer IQ

And that’s the Data Day, today.

Microsoft and Hortonworks expand Hadoop partnership. Oracle ships Exalytics. And more.

An occasional series of data-related news, views and links posts on Too Much Information. You can also follow the series @thedataday.

* Hortonworks to Bring Apache Hadoop to Millions of New Users Hortonworks and Microsoft expanded their relationship around Apache Hadoop.

See also:
# Big Data for Everyone: Using Microsoft’s Familiar BI Tools with Hadoop
# Microsoft’s Hadoop roadmap reveals new big data deliverables
# Karmasphere Expands Big Data Analytics on Hadoop in the Enterprise
# Datameer to Bring Hadoop Analytics to Windows Azure
# HStreaming Brings Real-Time Analytics to Microsoft’s Hadoop-based Services for Windows Server and Windows Azure

* Oracle Announces Availability of Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine

* Fujitsu Releases “Interstage Big Data Parallel Processing Server V1.0” to Help Enterprises Utilize Big Data

* Pentaho and DataStax announce strategic partnership delivering the first complete Apache Cassandra-based big data analytics solution to the market

* Cloudant Names Andy Palmer to its Board of Directors

* R integrated throughout the enterprise analytics stack

* Jaspersoft Announces Big Data Index to Track Demand for Big Data Analytics

* 1010data Enables Companies to Rapidly Model and Predict Individual Consumer Behavior and Social Network Relationships

* Tableau Software Teams with Attivio to Tap Unstructured Content and Deliver Deeper Insight to Business Users

* Infochimps and the Future of Data Marketplaces “This is the clearest indication yet that data marketplaces may be the latest ‘Application Service Provider’ cycle, as in right idea, wrong time.”

* HStreaming and RainStor Partner to Lower the Cost of Big-Data Analytics on Hadoop

* JustOne Database Sets the Stage for Accelerated Growth in 2012 and Beyond

* Big Data investment map

* A group of Google Engineers released “vitess” – a project to help scale MySQL databases.

* For 451 Research clients

# Reassessing the M&A potential of NoSQL and NewSQL Sector IQ report

# Sears Holdings creates Hadoop managed service provider MetaScale Impact Report

# Datawatch turns the corner with focus on report analytics suite Impact Report

# arcplan details growth plan, as it expands into front end for SAP HANA and social BI Impact Report

# Objectivity adds reusable queries to InfiniteGraph NoSQL database Market Development Report

# Host Analytics illuminates cloud performance management growth strategy and roadmap Market Development Report

And that’s the Data Day, today.

Rob Bearden is new Hortonworks CEO. Oracle updates MySQL Cluster. And more.

An occasional series of data-related news, views and links posts on Too Much Information. You can also follow the series @thedataday.

* With a new CEO, will Hortonworks get serious about Hadoop? Rob Bearden is Hortonworks’ new chief elephant-herder.

* Oracle Oracle Announces General Availability of MySQL Cluster 7.2. Claims 1 billion queries per minute.

* Vertica Extends Manageability and Ease-of-Use for the Vertica Analytics Platform.

* NGDATA Raises Capital to Accelerate Growth Belgian data management company confirms that it recently acquired Outerthought.

* QlikTech Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2011 Financial Results

* Quest Business Intelligence Studio 1.0 is now Generally Available

* Jaspersoft Delivers Big Data Integration into Jaspersoft ETL

* Hortonworks University Launches to Deliver Comprehensive Apache Hadoop Training and Certification.

* Schema in Cassandra 1.1. “as systems deployed on Cassandra grew and matured, lack of schema became a pain point”

* GigaSpaces Announces New Cloudify Free Product Edition.

* Announcing Reduced Pricing on SQL Azure and New 100MB Database Option.

* Composite Software Continues Innovation with Release of Version 6.1 of its Data Virtualization Platform.

* Multi-Tenant Cloudant in Europe.

* NuvolaBase has launched its hosted graph database offering.

* How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did. Big data’s beer and diapers equivalent.

* Beyond “Big Data”. “I have a theory that buzzwords are usually helpful in general, in that they usher in new concepts before they end up as meaningless marketing fluff–and, eventually, punchlines. I think this is in the process of happening right now with the term “big data”.”

* For 451 Research clients

# Akiban prepares to launch ‘table grouping’ NewSQL database IMpact Report

# IBM sheds light on the Big Blue business of information governance Market Decelopment Report

And that’s the Data Day, today.

SAP targets HANA at SMEs. WibiData raises $5m. Zimory acquires Sones devs. And more.

An occasional series of data-related news, views and links posts on Too Much Information. You can also follow the series @thedataday.

* SAP to Arm Small and Midsize Enterprises With Real-Time Analytics Powered by SAP HANA

* Hadoop startup WibiData raises $5M to power web analytics

* Zimory Acquires Database Development Team from Sones

* Oracle Announces Availability of Oracle Advanced Analytics for Big Data

* Kalido Fuels Growth with New Customers, Market Leading Data Governance Capabilities in 2011

* Xeround Announces Free Version of Popular Cloud Database

* Hypertable Inc. Announces New Products and Services for Next Generation Hadoop NoSQL Database Deployments

* Cloudera Connector for Tableau Has Been Released

* Information Builders Launches WebFOCUS Hyperstage to Speed Performance and Delivery of Business Intelligence

* Actian Releases Vectorwise Workgroup Edition, Claims Best in Affordable Big Data Analytics to Mid-Market

* 10gen and Carahsoft Partner to Bring Leading NoSQL Solution to Government Sector

* MySQL progress in a year

* Endeca CEO: We wanted IPO, but Oracle acquisition gave peace of mind

* For 451 Research clients

# Armed with fresh funding, Tidemark looks to churn up performance management waters Impact Report

# Cloudant seizes opportunity for greater involvement with CouchDB Market Development report

# Xeround details cloud database pricing, launches free option Market Development report

And that’s the Data Day, today.

Oracle OEMs Cloudera. The future of Apache CouchDB. And more.

An occasional series of data-related news, views and links posts on Too Much Information. You can also follow the series @thedataday.

* Oracle announced the general availability of Big Data Appliance, and an OEM agreement with Cloudera for CDH and Cloudera Manager.

* The Future of Apache CouchDB Cloudant confirms intention to integrate the core capabilities of BigCouch into Apache CouchDB.

* Reinforcing Couchbase’s Commitment to Open Source and CouchDB Couchbase CEO Bob Wiederhold attempts to clear up any confusion.

* Hortonworks Appoints Shaun Connolly to Vice President of Corporate Strategy Former vice president of product strategy at VMware.

* Splunk even more data with 4.3 Introducing the latest Splunk release.

* Announcement of Percona XtraDB Cluster (alpha release) Based on Galera.

* Bringing Value of Big Data to Business: SAP’s Integrated Strategy Forbes interview with with Sanjay Poonen, President and corporate officer of SAP Global Solutions.

* New Release of Oracle Database Firewall Extends Support to MySQL and Enhances Reporting Capabilities Self-explanatory.

* Big data and the disruption curve “Many efforts are being funded by business units and not the IT department and money is increasingly being diverted from large enterprise vendors.”

* Get your SQL Server database ready for SQL Azure Microsoft “codename” SQL Azure Compatibility Assessment.

* An update on Apache Hadoop 1.0 Cloudera’s Charles Zedlewski helpfully explains Apache Hadoop branch numbering.

* Xeround and the CAP Theorem So where does Xeround fit in the CAP Theorem?

* Can Yahoo’s new CEO Thompson harness big data, analytics? Larry Dignan thinks Scott Thompson might just be the right guy for the job.

* US Companies Face Big Hurdles in ‘Big Data’ Use “21% of respondents were unsure how to best define Big Data”

* Schedule Your Agenda for 2012 NoSQL Events Alex Popescu updates his list of the year’s key NoSQL events.

* DataStax take Apache Cassandra Mainstream in 2011; Poised for Growth and Innovation in 2012 The usual momentum round-up from DataStax.

* Objectivity claimed significant growth in adoption of its graph database, InfiniteGraph and flagship object database, Objectivity/DB.

* Cloudera Connector for Teradata 1.0.0 Self-explanatory.

* For 451 Research clients

# SAS delivers in-memory analytics for Teradata and Greenplum Market Development report

# With $84m in funding, Opera sets out predictive-analytics plans Market Development report

* Google News Search outlier of the day: First Dagger Fencing Competition in the World Scheduled for January 14, 2012

And that’s the Data Day, today.