Hitachi Vantara agrees to acquire Waterline Data. And more.

For @451Research clients: @HitachiVantara boosts data cataloging credentials with @waterlinedata acquisition https://t.co/H7ANJrZyv9 Written with Paige Bartley

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 23, 2020

For @451Research clients: 2020 Tech M&A Outlook: Application software https://t.co/DWuC4DUppu and Infrastructure management https://t.co/7D1Hyiaeh7 Featuring contributions from the whole Data, AI and Analytics team

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 20, 2020

For @451Research clients: Machine learning operations: The next M&A frontier for data science platforms https://t.co/HX1pKlJqQ5 By Krishna Roy #mlops

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 17, 2020

For @451Research clients: #451Perspective: Continuous intelligence emerges as successor to real-time analytics https://t.co/rNFz83YOx4 By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 24, 2020

For @451Research clients: @Microsoft’s Quantum strategy interweaves space and time https://t.co/FnLdrR0WfV By @owenrog

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 15, 2020

For @451Research clients: @pivotal sees @Greenplum serving more than just analytical workloads https://t.co/UwcnrMAb3O By @jmscrts

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 16, 2020

For @451Research clients: No leap of faith: @ASGTec’s strategy and functionality underscore value of trust https://t.co/dobk4okXpd By Paige Bartley

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 20, 2020

For @451Research clients: @Alation’s Analytics Stewardship offerings accelerate scalable, governed data leverage https://t.co/Sw1VlNx0Zh By Paige Bartley

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 15, 2020

Hitachi Vantara has announced its intent to acquire Waterline Data https://t.co/d7FjUkhgIS

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 22, 2020

Qlik has announced the acquisition of RoxAI and its Ping intelligent alerting software https://t.co/n33wJPKzBI

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 21, 2020

Outlier has raised a $22.1m Series B round of funding led by Emergence https://t.co/0N3WX6LrCY

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 22, 2020

Cloudera has announced the appointment of former Hortonworks CEO Rob Bearden as President and Chief Executive Officer, with Icahn Capital portfolio manager Nicholas Graziano becoming chairman of the board. https://t.co/iJkjUqLpbF

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 13, 2020

Confluent has announced the release of Confluent Platform 5.4 with Role-Based Access Control, Structured Audit Logs, Automated Disaster Recovery and Object Storage Offload https://t.co/xmZWflK4eL

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 23, 2020

MariaDB last week announced the availability of MariaDB Platform X4 https://t.co/c33FmzRwOe

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 20, 2020

Cloudera has added support for Apache Flink to Cloudera Data Flow with the GA of Cloudera Streaming Analytics https://t.co/w6Px5kfFsZ

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 20, 2020

AtScale last week announced the launch of its Adaptive Analytics 2020.1 platform release. https://t.co/ohS5jwofGQ

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 20, 2020

Splice Machine last week announced the next major release of its platform, Splice Machine 3.0 https://t.co/lyRlXyfevY

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 20, 2020

And that’s the Data Day, today.

Rob Bearden is new Hortonworks CEO. Oracle updates MySQL Cluster. And more.

An occasional series of data-related news, views and links posts on Too Much Information. You can also follow the series @thedataday.

* With a new CEO, will Hortonworks get serious about Hadoop? Rob Bearden is Hortonworks’ new chief elephant-herder.

* Oracle Oracle Announces General Availability of MySQL Cluster 7.2. Claims 1 billion queries per minute.

* Vertica Extends Manageability and Ease-of-Use for the Vertica Analytics Platform.

* NGDATA Raises Capital to Accelerate Growth Belgian data management company confirms that it recently acquired Outerthought.

* QlikTech Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2011 Financial Results

* Quest Business Intelligence Studio 1.0 is now Generally Available

* Jaspersoft Delivers Big Data Integration into Jaspersoft ETL

* Hortonworks University Launches to Deliver Comprehensive Apache Hadoop Training and Certification.

* Schema in Cassandra 1.1. “as systems deployed on Cassandra grew and matured, lack of schema became a pain point”

* GigaSpaces Announces New Cloudify Free Product Edition.

* Announcing Reduced Pricing on SQL Azure and New 100MB Database Option.

* Composite Software Continues Innovation with Release of Version 6.1 of its Data Virtualization Platform.

* Multi-Tenant Cloudant in Europe.

* NuvolaBase has launched its hosted graph database offering.

* How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did. Big data’s beer and diapers equivalent.

* Beyond “Big Data”. “I have a theory that buzzwords are usually helpful in general, in that they usher in new concepts before they end up as meaningless marketing fluff–and, eventually, punchlines. I think this is in the process of happening right now with the term “big data”.”

* For 451 Research clients

# Akiban prepares to launch ‘table grouping’ NewSQL database IMpact Report

# IBM sheds light on the Big Blue business of information governance Market Decelopment Report

And that’s the Data Day, today.