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.

Databricks and Spark. Total Data Warehousing. And more.

For @451Research clients: Total Data Warehousing, 2013-2018: Analytic Database and Hadoop Market Sizing and Forecasts http://t.co/hJuN1uDsfW

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 9, 2014

For @451Research clients: @databricks ignites interest in Apache Spark with Databricks Cloud http://t.co/XVNyH8piak

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 3, 2014

For @451Research clients: @ClearStoryData lands $21m series B funding for multi-structured analytics http://t.co/kDsytNClcY By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 3, 2014

For @451Research clients: Everything flows: @Google unveils data-processing service for post-MapReduce world http://t.co/CQUhwmUzNa

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 8, 2014

For @451Research clients: @VeristormInc looks to bring mainframe transactional data in from the cold http://t.co/uzM6iDXiox By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 1, 2014

For @451Research clients: @MapR raises $110m equity and debt financing, led by Google and Qualcomm http://t.co/VBlHd6teWO Analyst note

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 1, 2014

Databricks unveils Spark-based Databricks Cloud, $33m series B funding http://t.co/jXqeoRrAjs

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 1, 2014

Database startup TempoDB becomes TempoIQ, refocuses on sensor analytics http://t.co/dH5r6xtXC5

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 9, 2014

Proposal to improve Hive on Spark http://t.co/ph038yfupg and speculation on the implications http://t.co/HGcztIbAUa

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 1, 2014

Cloudera http://t.co/9zA9VmVl1P and Databricks http://t.co/vBpApTwmfO explain their thinking behind HIve on Spark.

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 2, 2014

Alteryx and Databricks form partnership to accelerate adoption of SparkR and SparkSQL http://t.co/ngUbsj1yh8

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 1, 2014

Databricks partners with SAP to deliver Spark distribution for SAP HANA. http://t.co/GH3PhvVLRd

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 1, 2014

EMC and Pivotal launch Data Lake Hadoop offering combining Isilon, Pivotal HD and HAWQ. http://t.co/21TB5EGGYX

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 8, 2014

Capgemini and Cloudera extend partnership http://t.co/sf5sAI1gWF

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 9, 2014

Accenture and Hortonworks join forces. http://t.co/YoHlqlLyL1

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 9, 2014

NoSQL LinkedIn Skills Index – June 2014 http://t.co/aFB2FezZrZ MongoDB maintains its lead, FoundationDB jumps a place (at the tail-end)

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 1, 2014

And that’s the data day, today.

Funding for MapR and Couchbase. And more

For @451Research clients: @Oracle adds in-memory capability to @OracleDatabase http://t.co/lRQsAFA79u By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 26, 2014

For @451Research clients: @aerospikedb goes open source, raises $20m series C for in-memory NoSQL database http://t.co/LRbKALh1yL

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 25, 2014

For @451Research clients: @Tamr_Inc lands $16m series A for data preparation service http://t.co/rBuSI14EyF By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 30, 2014

For @451Research clients: With $25m series C round, @trifacta details its data transformation play http://t.co/V1DrAoxNOI By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 24, 2014

For @451Research clients: @EXASOLAG makes analytics database even faster with EXASolution Version 5 http://t.co/BYNVpfORHz By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 30, 2014

For @451Research clients: @CodeFutures launches AgilData real-time data-aggregation platform http://t.co/4cjUDiXhpo

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 24, 2014

For @451Research clients: @InformaticaCorp buys @strikeiron to enhance data-as-a-service offerings http://t.co/z2Upcyx5AE By @@CarlLehmann1

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 23, 2014

MapR raises $110m ($80m equity, $30 debt) led by Google Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, SVB and existing investors http://t.co/ghgUxY5L3U

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 30, 2014

Couchbase secures $60m series E funding led by WestSummit and Accel Growth Fund. http://t.co/D071BsgDQt

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 26, 2014

Aerospike raises $20m http://t.co/eQKFe2qKMz, open sources NoSQL database http://t.co/9yBpLKW8fw

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 24, 2014

WANdisco acquired OhmData, developer of the Apache HBase-based C5 database http://t.co/gqITJUUvAp

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 30, 2014

Hortonworks has announced that Apache Spark has been certified as YARN Ready. http://t.co/AZy9A5Oz41

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 27, 2014

DataStax unveils DataStax Enterprise 4.5, including in-memory analytics powered by Spark. http://t.co/0OC2xZbIQJ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 30, 2014

Teradata has introduced Teradata Aster R. http://t.co/EQCfTMVGzR

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 26, 2014

Guavus enhances its Reflex Operational Intelligence Platform with Apache Spark and YARN http://t.co/bHJD9HEp1r

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 30, 2014

Actian has delivered all-in-one platform pricing for Actian Analytics Platform http://t.co/YADahGPeKx

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 30, 2014

SanDisk launches ZetaScale software enabling analytics apps and NoSQL databases to take advantage of flash. http://t.co/9Y8DqlAJYq

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 24, 2014

Google introduces Cloud Dataflow stream processing service (amongst other things). http://t.co/BEzhLyNp1H

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 25, 2014

Pentaho announced the general availability of version 5.1 of its business analytics and data integration platform. http://t.co/auZgXoRQGD

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 24, 2014

RainStor launches archive application on Hadoop 2.0. http://t.co/iWIZ0gu2h9

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 24, 2014

CumuLogic launches on-premises MongoDB database-as-a-service platform http://t.co/PAa3DzsFi1

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 24, 2014

Dell launches in-memory scale-out appliances for Cloudera Enterprise http://t.co/51DtZiwodP

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 24, 2014

Google introduces Cayley, an open source graph database http://t.co/yAxx7aZKtQ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 25, 2014

SlamData releases open source analytics for MongoDB http://t.co/7Vfn74aCre

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 24, 2014

And that’s the data day, today.

Neo updates Neo4j. Cloudera sharpens focus on Accumulo. And more

For 451 clients: IBM steps up commitment to Watson with BU, $1bn investment, $100m startup fund http://t.co/ptHrWCY7Io By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 17, 2014

For 451 clients: Diyotta aims to bring data integration to the yottabyte generation using ELT approach http://t.co/oFXyZiJDO4 By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 13, 2014

Neo Technology has announced the general availability of Neo4j 2.0 and the launch of its online training program. http://t.co/FasHkFW3pE

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 14, 2014

Basho introduces commercial support for open source Riak with Riak Starter and Riak Basic. http://t.co/ONGXaYs13d

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 14, 2014

SGI announces plans to develop an in-memory appliance based on SAP HANA. http://t.co/AFZCLFYBbI

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 14, 2014

Cloudera steps up focused on Apache Accumulo via joint development partnership with Koverse. http://t.co/y3Y30TBfzf

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 16, 2014

Verizon introduces Per-Hour Billing for Oracle Database and Oracle Fusion Middleware on Verizon Cloud http://t.co/PtIUq5z02O

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 13, 2014

Veristorm Launches vStorm Enterprise, a commercial Hadoop distribution for Linux on mainframe. http://t.co/Zf1GXHbhZd

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 14, 2014

Google launches a preview release of the Google Cloud Storage connector for Hadoop. http://t.co/dI3HQ6oOGJ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 14, 2014

Garantia Data's Redis Cloud service is now available on IBM's SoftLayer IaaS platform. http://t.co/ZfUtciJr4M

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 15, 2014

And that’s the data day, today.

Google confirms move to MariaDB. SAP acquires KXEN. And more.

For 451 Research clients: SAP reaches for KXEN to get into the business of predictive analytics http://t.co/KSyO54zQYo By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 12, 2013

For 451 Research clients: With $7m series A funding, Context Relevant sets up shop in machine learning http://t.co/U4LUJcoTGA By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 13, 2013

For 451 clients: In first Q following IPO, Tableau sees strong growth, makes SaaS play, embraces R http://t.co/0cDWVnZXly By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 11, 2013

For 451 Research clients: triAGENS considers commercial options for ArangoDB NoSQL database http://t.co/aXf99HYtAp

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 11, 2013

For 451 Research clients: SRCH2 looks forward to potential disruption in enterprise search http://t.co/2DQiHahirI

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 9, 2013

Google confirms migration from MySQL to MariaDB, as well as MariaDB development collaboration with SkySQL http://t.co/aNISHZGjFD

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 12, 2013

SAP acquires KXEN http://t.co/jOa6bSsVMz

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 10, 2013

SAP has entered reseller agreements with Intel and Hortonworks to resell their Hadoop distos alongside SAP HANA. http://t.co/S17UWWANqE

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 12, 2013

Space-Time Insight announces $20m investment round http://t.co/G8TfxkdZi5 (PDF)

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 12, 2013

SAS adds in-database data quality, improved event-stream processing to SAS Data Management. http://t.co/hx9q2WOHrL

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 11, 2013

PostgreSQL 9.3 released with heterogeneous data federation, increased reliability, and new developer features. http://t.co/SKiOzdjml0

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 10, 2013

Amazon introduces DynamoDB Local for Desktop dev http://t.co/i7R18NyMiD X-region replication using AWS Data Pipeline http://t.co/SXjXZArV7f

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 13, 2013

Pentaho launches Business Analytics 5.0 http://t.co/bBfTxBbs3z including advanced MongoDB integration. http://t.co/mG98qfVZWE

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 12, 2013

Pivotal unveils project “Helios” to integrate GemFire and SQLFire in-memory data grid capabilities and Pivotal HD. http://t.co/FuL2CiGvSV

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 10, 2013

Couchbase launches Couchbase Server 2.2 http://t.co/r53B18g0EF ‘JSON Anywhere’ Mobile Strategy http://t.co/SjtF1k2ejt

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 13, 2013

Revelytix announces strategic partnership with MapR. http://t.co/ib2x0q25eT

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 11, 2013

RedisConf 2013 cancelled due to lack of interest from attendees and sponsors. http://t.co/qupK2ugsuu

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 10, 2013

And that’s the data day, today.

Where database startups go to die. And more.

For 451 Research clients: The cloud: where database startups go to die? http://t.co/uGjjuT1Bqh

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 6, 2013

For 451 Research clients: The 'big data' stepping stone on the road to Total Data integration http://t.co/InjsHNo5T5 By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 2, 2013

For 451 clients: Cirro expands data source support as it finds place in enterprise for federation hub http://t.co/yznwC57W5b By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 6, 2013

The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Cassandra v2.0 http://t.co/QF8CLZGYHP

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 4, 2013

Amazon ElastiCache now supports Redis. http://t.co/Gmv64Ljhtm

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 5, 2013

Twitter open sources Storm-Hadoop hybrid called Summingbird http://t.co/BSXWl8o6iJ

— GigaOM (@gigaom) September 3, 2013

Google has published the research paper for its F1 distributed SQL database. http://t.co/4UIWuUxKtI

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 2, 2013

Former Xeround CEO joins ScaleBase to lead business development and strategy. http://t.co/Wdi6Avr9rk

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 4, 2013

"i don't know what is wrong with sap communication or the online courses… here are the facts" http://t.co/yKSjMgVNnH Plattner explains HANA

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 3, 2013

And that’s the data day, today.

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.

Tableau IPOs. Funding for EdgeSpring, Cloudant LucidWorks, and GraphLab

For 451 Research clients: A closer look at Tableau Software’s impending IPO bit.ly/13wQQgk By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 15, 2013

For 451 Research clients: 451 Research survey highlights growing adoption of NoSQL databases bit.ly/10ULuwb

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 17, 2013

For 451 Research clients: Teradata adds Intelligent Memory to analytic database systems bit.ly/13wQSFb

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 15, 2013

For 451 Research clients: Talend makes semi-structured data play with Oakland Software buy bit.ly/10ULwEi By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 17, 2013

For 451 Research clients: ‘Big data’ is the calling card for Think Big Analytics bit.ly/10vsvCz By @drkatyring

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 14, 2013

Tableau Software Announces Pricing of Initial Public Offering bit.ly/10ULCLW Higher than expected, at $31.00 per share.

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 17, 2013

SAP Business Suite Powered by SAP HANA Now Generally Available bit.ly/101chSy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 15, 2013

SAP adds data virtualization, spatial processing to HANA prn.to/10UM253 launches v4.1 of BusinessObjects prn.to/10UM8K3

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 17, 2013

EdgeSpring launches BI and analytics for multi-structured data, with funding from KPCB) and Lightspeed Ventures bit.ly/11K52VA

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 17, 2013

Cloudant raises $12m in series B funding. bit.ly/102t2jP

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 14, 2013

LucidWorks pulls in $10m from existing investors. bit.ly/10vsRZQ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 14, 2013

GraphLab announces $6.75m in funding from Madrona Venture Group and NEA to fuel graph analysis project. prn.to/10KYrsj

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 14, 2013

As Google’s Compute Engine reaches GA, Google launches Google Cloud Datastore standalone NoSQL database service. bit.ly/13ytUxl

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 16, 2013

Amazon updates DynamoDB with parallel scans, provisioned throughput and read capacity metering. bit.ly/13ytNSz

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 16, 2013

Concurrent partners with MapR to support Cascading on MapR’s Distribution for Apache Hadoop. mwne.ws/101azAK

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 15, 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.

Actian acquires Versant. GoodData’s hosted analytics. And more.

For 451 Research clients: Versant leaves UNICOM at the altar, agrees to be acquired by Actian bit.ly/V3C6y6

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 27, 2012

For 451 Research clients: GoodData bags series C funding, looks to round out hosted analysis service bit.ly/V3CfRX By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 27, 2012

In scenes not particularly reminiscent of The Graduate, Versant has left Unicom at the altar and run off with Actian. bit.ly/ULi0YR

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 22, 2012

EnterpriseDB launches Postgres Plus Advanced Server 9.2 bit.ly/WVn436 and Postgres Enterprise Manager 3.0. bit.ly/WVn57t

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 27, 2012

Exclusive: Inside Google Spanner, the Largest Single Database on Earth | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com wired.com/wiredenterpris…

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 27, 2012

And that’s the Data Day, today.