Data platforms and analytics doesn’t look like this anymore!

For @451Research clients: @SAP snaps up @Altiscale for its big-data analytics managed services https://t.co/qQnFTG7HM2

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 29, 2016

For @451Research clients: @Salesforce illuminates @beyondcoreinc's initial role inside Wave Analytics https://t.co/xsEe7qIzs6 By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 29, 2016

For @451Research clients: @Hortonworks combines NiFi with Kafka, Storm, Ambari and Ranger with HDF 2.0 https://t.co/Mf7SRhaIRE

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 26, 2016

For @451Research clients: @StreamSets aims to master data pipelines https://t.co/4VBPriPTw4 By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 29, 2016

For @451Research clients: @Fivetran aims to transform data integration with cloud-based approach to ELT https://t.co/jYMDEd0aLR

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 27, 2016

For @451Research clients: @EsgynCorp sets sights on mixed workloads with updated Hadoop RDBMS https://t.co/MwqNhG0rWX By @jmscrts

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 28, 2016

Altiscale confirms its acquisition by SAP https://t.co/rRB3WMAFfJ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 27, 2016

SAP's take on its completed acquisition of Altiscale https://t.co/6aTzSW2DrC

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 27, 2016

Podium Data raises $9.5m series A financing round https://t.co/CPFd0f9IuG

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 26, 2016

Kinetica adds $6m in acceleration funding https://t.co/qDV7GOLa3j

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 26, 2016

IBM unveils Project DataWorks cloud-based data and analytics platform driven by machine learning and Spark. https://t.co/wELRI6mc6f

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 27, 2016

Splunk updates operational intelligence portfolio with embedded machine learning https://t.co/eWamKs0D84

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 27, 2016

MapR unveils support for event-driven microservices on Converged Data Platform https://t.co/pD0UrmoU4B

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 27, 2016

Microsoft Azure HDInsight now runs Hortonworks Data Platform 2.5, including Spark 2.0 https://t.co/6CU52Pt0hf

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 30, 2016

Hitachi updates Pentaho Data Integration with Spark SQL, Kafka support https://t.co/cI3GcxUT6Y

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 26, 2016

Zaloni updates Bedrock Data Lake Management to version 4.2 https://t.co/G845hcYBJa

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 30, 2016

Zaloni updates Mica self-service data preparation offering to version 1.2 https://t.co/yzxTMxECdS

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 28, 2016

Alation previews Alation Data Catalog 4.0 with Alation Connect https://t.co/CBLJyvWCd8

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 27, 2016

MemSQL releases version 5.5, including MemSQL Pipelines for native ingest from Kafka https://t.co/x0vN8DjD24

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 26, 2016

MySQL at Oracle Open World 2016 https://t.co/qaclTkqOlW

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 26, 2016

Confluent enhances Enterprise offering for Kafka with multi-datacenter replication, auto data balancing https://t.co/rcBFPMtrb7

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 28, 2016

Cambridge Semantics launches Anzo Smart Data Lake for Enterprise https://t.co/6Q8lgkHj7k

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 28, 2016

Splice Machine announces native Oracle PL/SQL support for Hadoop-based RDBMS https://t.co/5QBV2gDRtK

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 27, 2016

Paxata launches Paxata Connect, repositions as Business Information Platform provider. https://t.co/CzmYz6Dr5o

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 28, 2016

BlueData updates its EPIC containerized big data-as-a-service platform for Hdoop and Spark. https://t.co/GWJHemJzye

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 27, 2016

Basho updates its Riak TS and Riak KV databases. https://t.co/ZZBWk1ZDyE

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 28, 2016

PostgreSQL 9.6 is now available, with support for parallel query, and enhanced synchronous replication https://t.co/J05o32szxw

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 30, 2016

Cazena's Data Lake as a Service is now available on Azure https://t.co/XnNdaAfgmn

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 27, 2016

The Cloudera-backed Open Network Insights (ONI) project is now Apache Spot (incubating) https://t.co/j3LG1UlCoA

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 28, 2016

data Artisans has launched the dA Platform, a Flink distribution with subscription support https://t.co/ejeyethQl8

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 26, 2016

Deepsense.io unveils Neptune machine learning platform https://t.co/HFK6b7x2LU

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 30, 2016

Deepsense.io updates Seahorse data analytics workbench with support for Spark 2.0. https://t.co/zOTOgFEH8w

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 27, 2016

WANdisco’s CEO has left the company with immediate effect https://t.co/pogXWOo7g2

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 30, 2016

And that’s the data day, today.