Hardwood, the project Gunnar Morling kick-started handling of Parquet files in Java, reached version 1. Its multi-threaded approach and zero mandatory external dependencies promise a simpler, more ...

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Edge, a leading open source enterprise Postgres company, is launching pgEdge ColdFront, a transparent data tiering solution for PostgreSQL. Unlike other alternatives, ColdFront's cold tier is fully ...

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With a combined market value of around $150 billion, Snowflake and Databricks have divergent visions on how to get customers' analytics and machine learning tools to their data, which is often spread ...

Microsoft is bringing even more database options into the Microsoft Fabric fold, alongside a series of initiatives that aim to help tackle enterprise data complexity. For literally generations of ...

Microsoft has introduced new AI-driven features within the Microsoft Fabric data platform to accelerate application development and improve other enterprise functions. As 2025 approaches, managing ...

After speaking at the European Fabric Community Conference last month, I followed it up with the Dataminds Connect event in Mechelen, Belgium, in early October. As a longtime conference speaker, I ...

Apache Spark has emerged as one of the most powerful tools for big data processing providing capabilities for handling vast datasets quickly and efficiently. It offers a unified analytics engine for ...

Ever since Microsoft introduced SQL Server Stretch Database in 2016, our guiding principles for such hybrid data storage solutions have always been affordability, security, and native Azure ...

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...