Cloudera anoints Spark. Paxata raises $18m. And more.

For @451Research clients: @Cloudera anoints Spark as MapReduce's successor with One Platform Initiative http://t.co/A0CIhtH0Hi

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 9, 2015

For @451Research clients: @Hortonworks targets data in motion following $38.5m @onyarainc acquisition http://t.co/uOUox4lQa5

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 10, 2015

For @451Research clients: @Paxata bags $18m series C to fuel enterprise self-service data-prep focus http://t.co/Rp2JktwPaM By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 10, 2015

For @451Research clients: @Paradigm4 seeks to raise @SciDB's profile via IoT, fresh funding boost http://t.co/CZZacaGJCE

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 9, 2015

For @451Research clients: @RedHatNews readies JBoss Data Grid as a service, Hadoop integration http://t.co/Fe75NXfOnB By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 1, 2015

For @451Research clients: Uncharted launches @PanTera_io for visualization of very large data sets http://t.co/RsQ2x7IiHZ By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 2, 2015

For @451Research clients: @SASsoftware releases Factory for running predictive model tournaments http://t.co/VOX81V9bLE By Jim Curtis

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) August 27, 2015

For @451Research clients: @Saasabi eyes funding to fuel next growth phase in SaaS BI http://t.co/HeX211XxAk By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) August 27, 2015

For @451Research clients: Music to its ears: @orchestramdm sees US growth in financial services http://t.co/RmPphgw8Qf By Jim Curtis

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 1, 2015

For @451Research clients: @StarcounterDB mulls funding as it reaches for data-platform stardom http://t.co/2nk9Zul6VQ By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 11, 2015

For @451Research clients: @Cloudwick offers big data as a service with Cloudwick One http://t.co/C8pWZBHhbW By @drkatyring

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 1, 2015

Paxata raises $18m series C led by EDBI along with existing investors. http://t.co/RODZV81uy7

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 9, 2015

Splunk reports a net loss of $55.2m on Q2 revenue up 46% to $148.3m, surpasses 10,000 customers http://t.co/YLN7OnKEGr

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) August 28, 2015

Cloudera launches One Platform Initiative to improve Spark with a view to succeeding MapReduce http://t.co/hOAxqzBwJi

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 9, 2015

SAP has announced SAP HANA Vora, an in-memory query engine based on Apache Spark. http://t.co/hm9gpHKr5p

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 2, 2015

Alteryx has announced Alteryx Analytics 10.0. http://t.co/WvC0TBqOi3

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 4, 2015

MicroStrategy releases MicroStrategy 10.1 http://t.co/ROrd27082l

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 8, 2015

BMC enters big data analytics market with introduction of TrueSight Intelligence http://t.co/GUke62OHqj

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 8, 2015

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.