Toward a converged data platform, and more.

For @451Research clients: Toward a converged data platform, part one (of three) https://t.co/UdxfP0x2xM https://t.co/nusNYzOIiQ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 4, 2015

For @451Research clients: @Cloudera digs into SQL, bundles optimizer service in Enterprise 5.5 https://t.co/zeuttibmJ3 By Jim Curtis

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 9, 2015

For @451Research clients: @preveroAG unveils cloud strategy as it seeks to expand its BI horizons https://t.co/bYeNd10DS5 By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 24, 2015

For @451Research clients: @SlamData preps first commercial fruit of MongoDB analytics project https://t.co/svFGh7fiy2 By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 3, 2015

For @451Research clients: @LeanXcale launches hybrid database based on open source underpinnings https://t.co/XhF13f5eI5 By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 24, 2015

For @451Research clients: @MariaDB looks to cloud databases with Microsoft, AWS https://t.co/FEuYoeJc6T By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 1, 2015

For @451Research clients: @Tempo_IQ launches 4th gen of its IoT data mgmt suite https://t.co/R9TOvAV110 By @xianrenaud and @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 2, 2015

For @451Research clients: @MAANASearch seeks more funding to advance its big-data search engine https://t.co/41htsPuPjJ By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 1, 2015

Platfora raises $30m in growth-stage financing https://t.co/ByRSJvUIZs

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 8, 2015

SAP launches support package stack 11 (SPS 11) for the SAP HANA platform. https://t.co/ZwFyRqkthq

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 8, 2015

Confluent launches Confluent Platform 2.0, based on an updated Apache Kafka 0.9 core. https://t.co/66yrlxxevJ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 8, 2015

MapR announces MapR Streams, a Kafka-compatible publish-subscribe event streaming system https://t.co/4CrOJPzBcD

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 8, 2015

Microsoft retires Azure Managed Cache and In-Role Cache in favour of Azure Redis Cache https://t.co/UQJeNYD8L4

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 3, 2015

MongoDB’s BI Connector is, it would appear, actually PostgreSQL and the Postgres FDW. https://t.co/NPlc12IypX

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 9, 2015

Esgyn has released EsgynDB 2.0, built on Apache Trafodion, bringing multi-data center transaction support to Hadoop https://t.co/OBHLgdFIBE

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 8, 2015

The Apache Software Foundation announces Apache Kylin as a Top-Level Project https://t.co/Ek77CzpEOn

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 8, 2015

“I think… we’ll keep calling the ecosystem Hadoop after Hadoop is no longer the core component of it.” Doug Cutting https://t.co/5VqFuWwwR4

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 2, 2015

And that’s the data day, today.