Pivotal launches. SkySQL and Mony Program merge. And much, much more

Our report on the changes in the MySQL ecosystem is now available for 451 clients and non-clients alike at bit.ly/451mysql

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 25, 2013

For 451 Research clients: VMware expands Serengeti’s horizons with updated Hadoop virtualization project bit.ly/17muQFI

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 26, 2013

For 451 Research clients: SkySQL, Monty Program merge to support MariaDB following formation of MariaDB Foundation bit.ly/10dsdjf

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 24, 2013

For 451 Research clients: With two funding rounds and an acquisition, Guavus expands its addressable market bit.ly/11Fd4LH

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 25, 2013

For 451 Research clients: Pentaho snags Webdetails to get more visual and business user-friendly bit.ly/13VDxIW

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 23, 2013

For 451 Research clients: Digital Infrastructure: what it is and why you need a DI strategy bit.ly/YFI9M2 By the 451 collective

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 22, 2013

Pivotal announced that GE plans to make a $105m strategic investment, representing a 10% equity stake. bit.ly/10dstP6

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 24, 2013

Actian acquires ParAccel. bit.ly/11Fchu8

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 25, 2013

SAP HANA contributed €86 million to SAP’s software revenue in Q1. bit.ly/12BljcG

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 22, 2013

Informatica reports Q1 revenue up 9% to $214.3m. bit.ly/ZQ0o1B

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 25, 2013

QlikTech reports Q1 revenue up 22% to $96.5m. bit.ly/15WgOfU

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 26, 2013

SkySQL today announced that it has signed a merger agreement with Monty Program Ab bit.ly/17g6ygy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 23, 2013

Tokutek goes open source, making the source code for TokuDB v7 freely available under the GPLv2. bit.ly/12BkOPP

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 22, 2013

Continuent Tungsten Replicator Is Now 100% Open Source bit.ly/ZI9OMy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 22, 2013

Press Release: @qubole Closes Series A Funding, Reaches Half Petabyte of Data Processed. Read more here: qubole.com/press-releases

— qubole (@qubole) April 23, 2013

GenieDB has announced GenieDB Enterprise 2.0, including compatibility With MySQL 5.6. mwne.ws/10dsyST

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 24, 2013

Continuent Announces New Continuent Tungsten 2.0 bit.ly/ZKoNp3

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 23, 2013

MemSQL has announced the GA of the distributed version of its in-memory database and real-time analytics platform bit.ly/ZKnZAI

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 23, 2013

Pentaho Acquires Dashboard and UI Specialist Partner Webdetails bit.ly/12BknoW

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 22, 2013

Announcing the MySQL Applier for Apache Hadoop bit.ly/ZMUm0K

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 23, 2013

Revolution Analytics launches Revolution R Enterprise 6.2. bit.ly/10dsmTN

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 24, 2013

Clustrix launches Clustrix 5.0 on Amazon Web Services. mwne.ws/10dsgLX

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 24, 2013

Tableau preps IPO. Funding for SiSense and Deep. And more.

* For 451 Research clients: Citus Data brings SQL to foreign data environments, starting with Hadoop

* For 451 Research clients: With $20m in series B funding in the bag, Platfora makes its Hadoop-based analysis debut

* Tableau Software Files Registration Statement For Proposed Initial Public Offering.

* SiSense raises $10m series B funding.

* Deep Information Sciences scores $10M for its general-purpose database.

* IBM launches BLU Acceleration, PureData System for Hadoop.

* SAP: Is HANA growth overstated?

* VMWare announces the launch of Serengeti 0.8.0.

* MySQL and the forks in the road.

SAP’s predictive analytics plans. Dell’s Boomi MDM. And more

For 451 Research clients: SAP sheds light on predictive-analytics business bit.ly/ZEc5eu By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 12, 2013

For 451 Research clients: Dell Boomi launches into MDM with cloud service for the midmarket bit.ly/ZEcjSK By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 12, 2013

Teradata delivers Teradata Data Warehouse Appliance 2700. prn.to/Yre3ug

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 13, 2013

MIT researchers are developing a system called DBSeer to improve the efficiency of databases in cloud environments. bit.ly/10GAVcx

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 13, 2013

Twitter and Cloudera are open-sourcing Parquet: columnar storage format for Hadoop. Take a look! parquet.github.com

— Dmitriy Ryaboy (@squarecog) March 12, 2013

Scality integrates its RING storage software with Hadoop. bit.ly/YbfUaB

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 14, 2013

Hadapt adds Netezza co-founder Jit Saxena to Board of Directors. prn.to/Xardwd

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 14, 2013

What it means to be “all in” on Hadoop bit.ly/Y4Svre This isn’t about which vendor has the most Hadoop committers.

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 11, 2013

And that’s the data day, today.

Aster Discovery. Delphix and SAP. Hadoop use-cases. And more.

For 451 Research clients: Teradata updates Aster Discovery Platform with visual analytic functions bit.ly/WYiLni

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 21, 2013

For 451 Research clients: Delphix lands SAP endorsement for expanded database-virtualization software bit.ly/W7uOQp

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 22, 2013

For 451 clients: Yottamine launches R-based machine-learning service in the cloud for data scientists bit.ly/WYiIIa By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 21, 2013

Informatica moves into process automation with Active Endpoints acquisition bit.ly/W7uSji by @carllehmann1 and Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 22, 2013

For 451 clients: Red Hat plans Hadoop cooperation with open source Hadoop plug-in for Red Hat Storage bit.ly/WYiHni Analyst note.

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 21, 2013

Big Data’s New Use Cases: Transformation, Active Archive, and Exploration bit.ly/UMcQBr Great post on Hadoop’s role by @awadallah

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 21, 2013

SAP has announced the availability of SAP Sybase IQ 16. prn.to/WYiZuv

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 21, 2013

Basho introduces Riak 1.3 with active anti-entropy and faster multi-datacenter replication. bit.ly/UMbreh

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 21, 2013

The State of CouchDB bit.ly/WYkZDb (via @al3xandru)

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 21, 2013

Introducing The Couch Firm bit.ly/WYl7CE

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 21, 2013

VCE has introduced the Vblock Specialized System SAP HANA s.tt/1A2Dv

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 21, 2013

Understanding Unicorn: A deep dive into Facebook’s Graph Search zd.net/W7vdCH

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 22, 2013

Red Hat will open source its Hadoop plug-in for Red Hat Storage (GlusterFS) later this year. red.ht/134Rsem

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 20, 2013

And that’s the data day, today.

SAS. SAP. Actuate. Guavus. Cirro. ACID. And more.

For 451 clients: Actuate serves up first fruit from Quiterian acquisition with BIRT Analytics debut bit.ly/V6koLe By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 23, 2013

For 451 clients: Cirro cements positioning as enterprise data hub, gears up for series A funding bit.ly/WOQn3E By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 24, 2013

For 451 Research clients: VoltDB targets developers by adding JSON support to in-memory SQL database bit.ly/V6knqL

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 23, 2013

For 451 Research clients: NuvolaBase launches and prepares to spin off OrientDB support services business bit.ly/UmMBAg

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 24, 2013

SAP’s HANA generated revenue of €392m in Full Year 2012. prn.to/147RYX3

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 23, 2013

SAS achieved revenue of $2.87bn in 2012, up 5.4%. bit.ly/TrJWXX

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 24, 2013

Guavus Acquires Neuralitic Systems bit.ly/TrKdtW

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 24, 2013

Joyent builds on Hortonworks Data Platform to create the Joyent Solution for Hadoop bit.ly/SBMbq3

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 23, 2013

When is “ACID” ACID? Rarely. bit.ly/V6kNxf Great post by Berkeley CS grad student @pbailis

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 23, 2013

And that’s the Data Day, today.

SAP on HANA. Funding for Guavus and ScaleArc. And more

It’s alive! @451research‘s 2013 Database survey is available now at bit.ly/451db13 #mysql #nosql #newsql #postgresql etc etc

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 9, 2013

#SAPonHANA is official. Read the press release for the SAP Business Suite powered by #SAP #HANA news-sap.com/sap-business-s…

— SAP HANA (@SAPInMemory) January 10, 2013

Guavus Raises $30M in Funding mwne.ws/UP2guw

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 10, 2013

With another $12M, ScaleArc wants to keep your database relevant gigaom.com/2013/01/10/wit… via @gigaom

— Derrick Harris (@derrickharris) January 10, 2013

NuoDB expands executive team mwne.ws/13hTDsG Jim Starkey adopts advisory role

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 9, 2013

A Brief History of Sharding – ow.ly/gEabQ

— Clustrix (@Clustrix) January 10, 2013

Why use a NoSQL Database, and why not? bit.ly/VLe2lh

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 10, 2013

QlikTech and Attivio Partner to Deliver QlikView Direct Discovery for #BigData #Analytics | bit.ly/UYz0ie

— Attivio (@attivio) January 10, 2013

And that’s the Data Day, today.

Funding for Continuuity and 10gen. Wibi Data launches the Kiji. And more.

For 451 Research clients: IxReveal seeks funding round, highlights uReveal brand and data-harmonization use case bit.ly/PTw7P5

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 14, 2012

For 451 clients: Datawatch details semi-structured data analysis strategy and roadmap following Monarch buy bit.ly/PTwclT Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 14, 2012

10gen Announces Strategic Investment from @intelcapital and Red Hat soc.ai/2o9@redhatnews #MongoDB #NoSQL #Database #Intel

— 10gen(@10gen) November 14, 2012

Continuuity raises $10M Series A round to ignite Big Data app development within the #Hadoop ecosystem bit.ly/Qd0kKb

— Continuuity (@Continuuity) November 14, 2012

SAP positions HANA for transaction, analytics, text and predictive processing. prn.to/T2Z4Zu

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 14, 2012

Wibi Data launches the Kiji Project: An open source framework for building big data apps with Apache HBase bit.ly/W5VZKi

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 14, 2012

Hadapt and MapR partner to enable Hadapt’s Adaptive Analytical Platform to use MapR’s Distribution for Hadoop. bit.ly/PTyzVE

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 14, 2012

NuoDB launches release candidate, pricing and licensing for forthcoming elastic database for the cloud. bit.ly/W5Whkl

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 14, 2012

Actian positions Vectorwise for large data warehouse environments via OEM agreement with ScaleMP. bit.ly/W7Gmxa

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 14, 2012

Socrata plans open source reference implementation of its open data platform. mwne.ws/PTwnO2

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 14, 2012

And that’s the Data Day, today.

Pentaho raises $23m. Exploring CAP Theorem. And more.

For 451 Research clients: Microsoft provides insight into Hadoop for Windows and Azure bit.ly/SYsCVf Analyst note.

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 30, 2012

Pentaho has raised a $23m C round led by NEA, with participation from additional existing investors. bit.ly/XScsRs

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 30, 2012

Splunk Launches Splunk Enterprise 5, including Splunk-Hadoop integration. bit.ly/XSc8lE

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 30, 2012

New post at DBMS Musings on the CAP theorem edition of IEEE Computer with quick descriptions of 5 of the papers in itdbmsmusings.blogspot.com/2012/10/ieee-c…

— Daniel Abadi (@daniel_abadi) October 29, 2012

Actuate reports Q3 revenue of $32.2m, down 5%, with license revenue up 13% to $13.3m. bit.ly/SYtklm

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 30, 2012

Former Sybase CEO John Chen is leaving SAP. prn.to/V5q787

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 30, 2012

Infochimps has added stream processing technologies Storm and Kafka to its managed, hosted service. bit.ly/V5oGXn

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 30, 2012

VMware Announces VMware vFabric GemFire 7.0. mwne.ws/V5q2kT

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 30, 2012

Cirro Announces Integration Partnership with Tableau bit.ly/XSexwI

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 30, 2012

Synergex announces KitaroDB, a native NoSQL database For Windows. prn.to/SYsUeF

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 30, 2012

And that’s the Data Day, today.

Cloudera launches Impala. Actuate snags Quiterian. Microsoft previews HDInsight.

For 451 Research clients: Cloudera launches Impala project for real-time Hadoop analytics bit.ly/R3l1mk

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 25, 2012

For 451 Research clients: Actuate snags Quiterian to plug advanced analytics and visualization hole bit.ly/OZWtOO By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 23, 2012

For 451 clients: Continuing its M&A software push, Dell moves into ‘big data’ analytics via Kitenga buy bit.ly/R3l95k By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 25, 2012

For 451 Research clients: MapR delivers enhanced HBase database with M7 Edition of Hadoop bit.ly/OZWEd4

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 23, 2012

For 451 Research clients: RainStor accelerates direct sales approach following $12m funding round bit.ly/OZVRsD

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 23, 2012

For 451 Research clients: Platfora exits stealth mode with self-service in-memory BI for Hadoop bit.ly/OZWJxo By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 23, 2012

For 451 Research clients: Cloudant adds search to cloud database service, targets intelligence community bit.ly/OZVWMZ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 23, 2012

For 451 clients: BigML revs machine-learning-based cloud service with predictive model marketplace bit.ly/OZW2nK By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 23, 2012

For 451 clients: Cleversafe seeks to take object storage into ‘big data’ era with Hadoop offering bit.ly/OZWbYr By @simonrob451

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 23, 2012

For 451 Research clients: Versant brings the Java Persistence API to its object database with Versant JPA bit.ly/OZW7b8

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 23, 2012

For 451 Research clients: EMC open-sources Greenplum Chorus platform for collaborative analytics bit.ly/OZWAtQ Analyst note

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 23, 2012

And the rest:
– Microsoft previewed its Windows Azure HDInsight Service and Microsoft HDInsight Server for Windows.

– SAP launched a new “big data” bundle and go-to-market strategy.

– Informatica introduced Informatica PowerCenter Big Data Edition and reported its third quarter results.

– Also announcing financial results last week were QlikTech and Pervasive.

– Teradata updated its Unity suite with the addition of Unity Loader, and introduced its Unified Data Environment and the Unified Data Architecture.

– Splunk confirmed the release of Splunk Hadoop Connect and the Splunk App for HadoopOps.

– 10gen added five vice presidents to its management team.

– Rackspace partnered with Hortonworks to create OpenStack and Hadoop-based offerings for public and private cloud.

– Talend added support for Cassandra, HBase and MongoDB , and introduced big data profiling for Apache Hadoop to its integration platform

– MarkLogic announced support for HDFS and expanded its relationship with Hortonworks.

– Kognitio adopted a free licensing model.

– Calpont launched InfiniDB 3.5.

– MetaMarkets announced that it is open sourcing its Druid streaming, real-time data store.

– YarcData updated its uRiKA Big Data appliance for graph analytics.

– Alpine Data Labs announced a global OEM partnership with QlikTech.

– Actian and Attunity announced Attunity Replicate for Actian Vectorwise.

And that’s the Data Day, today.

Teradata launches Aster/Hadoop appliance. SAP takes HANA to the cloud.

Teradata launches Aster Big Analytics Appliance for Aster Database and Hadoop bit.ly/PBMX5G, Aster Express 5.0 bit.ly/PBMXTl

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 17, 2012

SAP Introduces SAP HANA Cloud. prn.to/PBOw3y

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 17, 2012

ScaleBase raises $10.5m in Series B funding from Bain Capital Ventures, Ascent Venture Partners and Cedar Fund. bit.ly/RBL2d4

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 17, 2012

Versant announced Versant JPA, aJava-based API for high-performance database and analytics operations. bit.ly/XnTEIl

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 17, 2012

Birst launches Birst Big Data Services bit.ly/V9PyX0, certifies with CDH. bit.ly/V9PF52

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 17, 2012

Splice Machine raises $4m to develop Hadoop-based Splice SQL Engine. prn.to/PBOsAZ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 17, 2012

And that’s the Data Day, today.