OpenText to acquire Actuate for $272m

For @451Research clients: With $100m funding in the bag, @Mag_SW aims to be greater than its EIM parts http://t.co/3S3ZRxOMI8 By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 4, 2014

For @451Research clients: @Pentaho enters self-service integration fray, illuminates BI business http://t.co/OZbrQHoZHh By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 5, 2014

For @451Research clients: @Teradata as a service: Hadoop, Aster Discovery and Data Warehouse http://t.co/sw2HAayGID By @wif

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 27, 2014

For @451Research clients: @TreasureData lands marquee customers for expanded data processing service http://t.co/ZkmrETFonK

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 5, 2014

For @451Research clients: @cloudwick brings 'big data' DevOps services to large enterprise buyers http://t.co/mFft7U2NjE By @drkatyring

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 5, 2014

OpenText signs definitive agreement to acquire Actuate for approximately $272m. http://t.co/TmoCL1RL8O

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 5, 2014

Hortonworks amends S1 – plans to offer 6 million shares at $12-$14 per share http://t.co/Soim7DrbB6

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 1, 2014

Narrative Science announces $10m investment round led by USAA. http://t.co/GVe4XR3WTx

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 28, 2014

Attivio appoints new CEO, CTO and chairman. http://t.co/RJ4ERXHGbn

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 5, 2014

HP launches Haven OnDemand, running on the HP Helion cloud http://t.co/jVwe5m6W3O

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 3, 2014

The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Drill as a Top-Level Project http://t.co/25qo0gZj05

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 3, 2014

DataStax has announced the general availability of DataStax Enterprise 4.6 http://t.co/Y4GpQMJNV2

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 4, 2014

Make that Percona adds Google Cloud Platform to list of XtraDB Cluster DBaaS providers http://t.co/5lztirPSGb

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 4, 2014

Citus Data announces pg_shard, a transparent sharding extension for PostgreSQL. http://t.co/fttwVM3Fkb

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 5, 2014

Pivotal laying off big data employees? http://t.co/9kFJ1qtWBP

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 28, 2014

Data scientist metro map. http://t.co/sblJQfXLoW Not sure how I missed this before

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 3, 2014

And that’s the data day, today.

Apache Hadoop 1.0. The future of CouchDB (or Couchbase anyway). And more.

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

* The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Hadoop v1.0 Self-explanatory.

* The Future of CouchDB Apache CouchDB creator Damien Katz explains why he is focusing his attention on Couchbase Server.

* Understanding Microsoft’s big-picture plans for Hadoop and Project Isotope Mary Jo Foley parses Alexander Stojanovic’s presentation.

* MongoDB Extends Leadership in NoSQL 10gen claims more than 400 commercial customers.

* 1010data’s Unique Big Data Analytics Platform Sees Stunning Growth in 2011 1010data runs the numbers on its adoption in 2011.

* TouchDB 1.0 is out TouchDB is a lightweight CouchDB-compatible database engine suitable for embedding into mobile apps.

* Data Scientist = Rock Star, Really? Virginia Backaitis is sceptical.

* Swimming with Dolphins Splunk’s connector for MySQL.

* What the Sumerians can teach us about data Pete Warden finds data inspiration at the British Museum.

* How To (Not) Get Smart About Big Data Wim Rampen on the importance of filtering noise.

* For 451 Research clients

# Total Data: exploratory analytic platforms Spotlight report

# Apache Hadoop reaches version 1.0, with more to come Analyst note

# Acunu hones focus on ‘big data’ platform for operational analytics Market development report

# Jaspersoft gets big into ‘big data,’ illuminates BI business momentum Market development report

* Google News Search outlier of the day: “Bella” Becomes Most Popular Name for Both Dogs and Cats

And that’s the Data Day, today.