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.

Big money for Cloudera and Hortonworks

For @451Research clients: @Intel deep-sixes Hadoop distribution, throws weight (and cash) behind @Cloudera http://t.co/oQb1ADzPFo

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 28, 2014

For @451Research clients: @cloudera preps for acquisitions following $160m funding round http://t.co/7cKohIs82r Assessing potential targets

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 28, 2014

For @451Research clients: Will @ApacheSpark ignite the next-generation data platform? http://t.co/j2DuWb4ek6

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 24, 2014

For @451Research clients: @hortonworks raises $100m to drive Hadoop expansion plans http://t.co/16hIDk8LfB

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 26, 2014

For @451Research clients: @Pentaho sheds light on business of integration, heads deeper into big data http://t.co/5B1HVwFmUi By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 27, 2014

For @451Research clients: @Datawatch forges further into data discovery with visualization makeover http://t.co/UYl4hde4G7 By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 26, 2014

Intel confirms strategic alliance with Cloudera, makes significant equity investment in Cloudera. http://t.co/XxSj0qwX4S

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 27, 2014

Hortonworks announces $100m funding. http://t.co/wlgi0l9DWx

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 25, 2014

Dell has acquired advanced analytics provider StatSoft. http://t.co/nMzkK3SR1a

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 25, 2014

Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, and Twitter MySQL engineers join forces to launch #WebScaleSQL http://t.co/PNn68inmmt

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 27, 2014

Google introduces BigQuery Streaming, cuts BigQuery on-demand prices by 85%. http://t.co/Wsg0KjMmCf

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 25, 2014

SAP introduces version 7.4 of SAP Business Warehouse, powered by SAP HANA. http://t.co/E5Pqtt3tgq

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 25, 2014

Apache Mahout will now support Apache Spark and H20 http://t.co/fuEcAmy6HW

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 28, 2014

SAS Institute launches SAS In-Memory Statistics for Hadoop. http://t.co/CfMlYgRZ54

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 25, 2014

AWS has migrated the underlying architecture of CloudSearch to Solr. http://t.co/KxSrrD0bja

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 26, 2014

Datameer has introduced Datameer 4.0, including end-to-end big data analytics workflow http://t.co/aUuSON4ziX

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 26, 2014

Using NoSQL databases to gain competitive advantage http://t.co/7yHNEohtyM The benefits and risks of polyglot persistence.

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 26, 2014

And that’s the data day, today.