DataStax has recently released its managed cloud service Astra, and the Apache community has just released the beta for its next generation 4.0 platform. With 4.0 pretty feature-complete, has the time ...

Along with tens of thousands of developers and operators, and companies ranging from startups to titans like Apple and Netflix, we want to see Apache Cassandra™ become cloud-native. We have done the ...

One of the great problems with cloud has always been interoperability. The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) addresses this problem with the release of Apache Libcloud v1.0, the cloud service ...

Cloud computing is cool; everybody knows this. However, despite the allure and assumptions of openness, the platform actually has quite a bit of maturing to do around interoperability. In fact, the ...

Apache Kylin was built to query massive relational tables with sub-second response times. A new, fully distributed query engine in Kylin 4 steps up performance of both cubing and queries. Recently, ...

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Startup Streamlio Inc. is making its Apache Pulsar-based publish-and-subscribe messaging platform available as a cloud-native “Kubernetes application” on the Google Cloud Platform. The Streamlio ...

Data warehouse software provider Cloudera Inc. is expanding support for Apache Iceberg, making it available in the self-hosted, private cloud version of its flagship Cloudera Data Platform. Today’s ...

Over the past year, we have witnessed a sea of change in how enterprises are thinking about Apache Hadoop and big data. Just 12 months ago, a majority of enterprises were still committed to building ...

I started using APL for data analysis around 1972. The powerful language, based on a 1962 book by Ken Iverson, A Programming Language, was and is notable for three things: its use of Greek letters and ...