What happened in data and analytics this week will blow your mind. Bigly.

For @451Research clients: Is it time for Oracle to flex its muscles in machine-learning analytics? https://t.co/VaU7z6i40N By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 9, 2016

For @451Research clients: Market Monitor Overview – Total Data market and vendor revenue estimates through Q3 16 https://t.co/CphQM8G487

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 9, 2016

For @451Research clients: The case for continuous data integration as an enabler for real-time analytics https://t.co/U273XJGHiM

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 5, 2016

For @451Research clients: @SoftwareAG boosts IoT strategy, by adding advanced analysis firm @Zementis https://t.co/MRXTQr7x6x By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 5, 2016

For @451Research clients: @ConfluentInc beefs up its streaming platform based on Apache Kafka https://t.co/bydZwUk9BS By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 6, 2016

For @451Research clients: @Pivotal solidifies @Greenplum commitment, continues open source strategy https://t.co/yZC656SIss By @jmscrts

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 6, 2016

For @451Research clients: @Infogix targets wider analytics role via self-service data preparation and analytics https://t.co/Dz0V6bu2LQ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 6, 2016

For @451Research clients: For @BlueData 's big-data platform, the drive to the cloud starts with AWS https://t.co/5UxVtwPM5Q By @jmscrts

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 9, 2016

For @451Research clients: @blendoapp raises seed funding to expand beyond ELT as a service https://t.co/cO84fusepH

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 9, 2016

For @451Research clients: @Docker nabs @infinit for data and storage persistence with containers https://t.co/GYgIe7P2mq By @ripcitylyman

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 8, 2016

SnapLogic has raised a $40m series F round led by Vitruvian Partners. https://t.co/GJn1iwBZUT

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 7, 2016

ZEPL, founded by the creators of Apache Zeppelin, has raised $4.1m in Series A funding, led by Vertex Ventures https://t.co/Pi1WgeHdas

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 8, 2016

Alluvium has raised $2.5m in seed funding led by IA Ventures, Lux Capital, and Bloomberg Beta. https://t.co/8GYRd1n6QT

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 8, 2016

Microsoft introduces Microsoft R Server 9.0 https://t.co/qyKUmg1XzA

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 8, 2016

Dell Boomi has announced the Fall 2016 release of its iPaaS https://t.co/kYpxI5feNt

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 8, 2016

Datawatch announces the general availability of Datawatch Panopticon 16 https://t.co/9V4XRVVSl3

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 6, 2016

Ryft delivers its Ryft Virtual search acceleration technology on AWS’s new F1 FPGA-based instances https://t.co/7CfFj7ull1

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 7, 2016

Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter and Alibaba have ceased development of the WebScaleSQL branch of MySQL. https://t.co/8vgbHnOZUt

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 5, 2016

And that’s the data day, today.

New funding for Anaplan and Looker. And more

For @451Research clients: The drivers and challenges of database as a service #dbaas https://t.co/9wzIM0c2aI

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 13, 2016

For @451Research clients: @datoinc details machine-learning mission to drive intelligent applications https://t.co/4HFQVWqd1S

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 12, 2016

For @451Research clients: @IBM illuminates @IBMSPSS advanced analytics portfolio https://t.co/z55I42tErS By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 14, 2016

For @451Research research clients: @splicemachine augments Hadoop-based RDBMS with Spark https://t.co/gyG2OIjUPF By Jim Curtis

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 12, 2016

For @451Research clients: @perfectpriceinc eyes retail growth with machine-learning SaaS play https://t.co/N1ZK9PzWha By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 11, 2016

Anaplan raises $90m led by Premji Invest with Founders Circle Capital, Harmony Partners, and existing investors https://t.co/GbCvTxbVeM

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 14, 2016

Looker secures $48m series C funding from Kleiner Perkins https://t.co/vTbRA89Axy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 14, 2016

Cambridge Semantics acquires SPARQL City’s IP, hires former executives to expand graph-based analytics platform https://t.co/y8iJDSM1YV

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 14, 2016

Informatica has appointed Anil Chakravarthy as its permanent CEO https://t.co/8o9xyD0rkw

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 12, 2016

Databricks promotes vice president of engineering and product, Ali Ghodsi, to CEO https://t.co/LrAxqaNfPd

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 11, 2016

SAP Announces Preliminary Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2015 Results https://t.co/KM2uybTXuz

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 12, 2016

Microsoft launches Microsoft R Server, reiterates its support for the open source R project https://t.co/FSgiuH4C51

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 14, 2016

And that’s the data day, today.