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Databricks acquires Tabular in a big move to close the compatibility gap with Apache Iceberg
Databricks Inc. today agreed to acquire Tabular Technologies Inc., developer of a universal storage platform based on the Apache Iceberg standard. The move signals stepped-up efforts by Databricks to bridge the compatibility gap between its Delta Lake storage format and Iceberg. Terms weren’t announced, but Databricks Chief Executive Ali Ghodsi (pictured) told CNBC the price tag was more ...
Neo4j integrates dozens of graph analytics functions with data in Snowflake
Graph database vendor Neo4j Inc. is teaming up with Snowflake Inc. to make a library of Neo4j’s graph analytics functions available in the Snowflake cloud. The deal announced today allows users to access more than 65 graph algorithms using SQL without moving data out of the Snowflake environment. The algorithms cover a variety of common ...
Snowflake broadly enhances AI features, adds no-code platform and boosts AI development tools
Snowflake Inc. is using its annual Snowflake Summit to introduce enhancements to Cortex AI, a managed service that makes it easier for organizations to discover, analyze and build artificial intelligence applications in the Snowflake Data Cloud. New features include the ability to quickly develop chatbots for querying data, a no-code interactive interface, access to several ...
Snowflake catalog supports cross-engine access to Iceberg data
Snowflake Inc. is expanding its support for the Apache Iceberg open-source table format with today’s announcement of Polaris Catalog, described as a vendor-neutral, open catalog implementation for Iceberg and other data architectures. Polaris is intended to provide centralized, cross-engine access to data. Snowflake said the catalog, which will be released to open source within the ...
Nutanix CEO sees sales slowdown as temporary
With its stock down more than 20% this morning following a disappointing outlook issued during yesterday’s earnings call, Nutanix Inc. ad its Chief Executive Rajiv Ramaswami maintained the sales slowdown the company is seeing is temporary and several large contracts currently in negotiation will boost the Nutanix’s fortunes in the near term. In a briefing ...
Enterprise DB begins rolling AI features into PostgreSQL
EnterpriseDB Corp., which sells a commercial version of the popular open-source PostgreSQL database management system, is launching itself into the artificial intelligence fray with today’s introduction of EDB Postgres AI. It’s a platform that combines transactional, analytical and AI workloads — a single PostgreSQL package that can be deployed in a cloud instance, on-premises or ...
At Build, Microsoft Fabric, PostgreSQL and Cosmos DB get AI enhancements
Among the roughly 60 announcements Microsoft Corp. is making at its Build conference today are new artificial intelligence capabilities across its cloud-based database management products. Fabric, the company’s unified data platform introduced last year, is a major beneficiary. A Workload Development Kit currently in preview can be used to extend applications within Fabric. Fabric Data Sharing ...
Microsoft simplifies Azure provisioning and debuts first VMs based on its custom silicon
Microsoft Corp.’s Build conference in Seattle this week will launch several enhancements to the company’s Azure public cloud. Azure Compute Fleet is a new service in preview intended to simplify the provisioning of Azure compute capacity across different virtual machine types, availability zones and pricing models. Microsoft said it should dramatically simplify how Azure compute capacity is currently provisioned and managed. Customers ...
Informatica will infuse generative AI throughout its products
Informatica Inc. kicked off its Informatica World conference in Las Vegas today with a promise to infuse generative artificial intelligence into every facet of its product line and to enable users to build natural language features into their applications. Citing its research that found that 58% of chief data officers need five or more data ...
Nutanix goes all-in on Kubernetes, bids for VMware defectors
Nutanix Inc. today announced a broad set of enhancements to its core infrastructure software and its Project Beacon portfolio of data-centric platform-as-a-service offerings that can run across multiple cloud and on-premises platforms. The company is aiming to cater to the 80% of organizations that use multiple public cloud platforms or plan to in the future. It’s also looking ...