Last week SAP introduced a cloud-based version of its in-memory database, two major Big Data vendors entered a partnership, and Russian ad specialist Tinkoff Digital adopted NoSQL to realize efficiencies across the board.

On Wednesday SAP pulled the curtains back on HANA Enterprise Cloud, the hosted version of its speedy in-memory database. The German business intelligence firm claims that the solution can support petabytes-scale deployments of mission-critical apps, including SAP’s own CRM, ERP and data warehousing software.

Cloudera and Splunk have also bolstered their Big Data portfolios recently. The two vendors joined forces to deliver Splunk Hadoop Connect, a bi-directional link between Cloudera Enterprise and Splunk Enterprise, the popular machine data analytics solution. The integration aims to make it easier for organizations to transfer data between the two systems.

Bill Gaylord, senior vice president of business development at Splunk, stated the connector “allows customers to easily use Splunk’s best-in-class machine data ingestion and management to deliver data to Hadoop, or ingest data into Splunk from Hadoop, such as the output of Hadoop MapReduce jobs and easily analyze and visualize that data.”

Splunk Hadoop Connect made its debut day after v2.4 of the Splunk App for Enterprise Security launched into general availability. The new version features something called Statistical Analysis for Threat Detection, a utility that analyzes HTTP traffic, establishes a ‘baseline’ for normal activity, and alerts admins of anomalies in real-time.

Some organizations are tapping into analytics to protect their Big Data, while others are more interested in monetizing. One company that falls under the second category is Tinkoff Digital, which leverages Aerospace’s speedy NoSQL database to power its homegrown data management platform. The system stores the behavioral profiles of some 400 million Russian internet users.