data management
There’s a new alliance in town: the Data Cloud Alliance. Founded by Google Cloud, Accenture, Confluent, Databricks, Dataiku, Deloitte, Elastic, Fivetran, MongoDB, Neo4j, Redis and Starburst, the group’s mission is…
You’d think data visualization and exploration is a bit of a solved problem thanks to the likes of Tableau, Sisense, Looker, Microsoft Power BI and their competitors. But for the…
The once scrappy company is scrappy no more and poised to build new features around what it’s already done with Airflow.
Despite the rapid growth and countless benefits of SaaS, there are significant challenges associated with managing and protecting SaaS data.
Portland, Oregon-based startup thatDot, which focuses on streaming event processing, today announced the launch of Quine, a new MIT-licensed open source project for data engineers that combines event streaming with…
Stop guessing your KPIs; Varos shows e-commerce, SaaS companies how you compare to peers
Varos is shedding some light on how companies compare in terms of key performance indicators, like customer acquisition costs.
Superconductive, creators of Great Expectations, nabs $40M for a commercial version of its open source data quality tool
Data quality — the practice of testing and ensuring that the data and data sets you are using are what you expect them to be — has become a key…
PopSQL enables users to connect to the database, write a SQL query and easily share it with others.
Throughout the COVID-19 recovery era, location data is set to be a core ingredient for driving business intelligence and building sustainable consumer loyalty.
RudderStack, a platform that focuses on helping businesses build their customer data platforms to improve their analytics and marketing efforts, today announced that it has raised a $56 million Series…
Berlin’s Tilo raises seed round to tackle unstructured data sets with a serverless platform
As is commonly the case, data sets used inside companies almost always come from diverse sources and in different, unstructured formats. Connecting them up can lead to a very large…
Canvas gives non-technical teams data exploration knowledge without needing a degree in SQL
Canvas is developing a spreadsheet-like interface for non-technical teams to access the information they need without bothering data teams.
Firebolt, a data warehouse startup, raises $100M at a $1.4B valuation for faster, cheaper analytics on large data sets
Israeli startup Firebolt has been taking on Google’s BigQuery, Snowflake and others with a cloud data warehouse solution that it claims can run analytics on large data sets cheaper and…
Verb’s customer-facing analytics tools are built specifically to live inside multi-tenant SaaS applications.
To avoid the trap of creating self-fulfilling prophecies, here’s the process you should follow for applying AI to small data problems.
AWS today announced a new service that makes it easier for its users to detect, diagnose and resolve issues in their relational databases. DevOps Guru for RDS, AWS’s fully managed…
Collecting data based on a vague hypothetical scenario indicates a lack of intuitive understanding of what kinds of data are actually important to collect from users.
Accelerated inbound attention had investors reaching out to both the company and its customers though Hightouch was not fundraising.
When you start ramping up, a growth marketing tech stack becomes increasingly vital. Every startup with a successful growth program has factored in this foundational piece into its overall strategy.
Data intelligence company Collibra brings in another $250M to more than double its valuation
The new valuation is more than double what the Brussels-based company announced last year when it secured $112.5 million in a Series F investment that put its valuation at $2.3…
Yugabyte stores up $188M more for its open-source distributed SQL database model, now valued at $1.3B+
Today’s world is run on data, and the amount of it that is being produced, managed and used to power services is growing by the minute — to the tune…
Attest raises $60M to expand its no-code approach to research surveys as a service, which taps 110M consumers in 49 countries
Surveys have long been used by marketing teams and other business decision-makers to learn how customers tick. But they can be costly to put together, hard to run at scale,…
Storing great pools of data is an increasingly figured-out challenge. Between public clouds, and data lakes more specifically, you can stick oceans of corporate data in any number of places.…
StuDocu co-founder and CEO Marnix Broer shares his journey of building and scaling the study resources sharing platform.
Cloud security startup Monad, which offers a platform for extracting and connecting data from various security tools, has launched from stealth with $17 million in Series A funding led by…
The truth is, we are still early when it comes to data transformation. The success of tech giants that put data at the core of their business models set off…
Insight Partners leads $30M round into Metabase, developing enterprise business intelligence tools
Metabase spun out of venture studio Expa as an easy way for people to interact with datasets.
Enterprise Resource Planning systems have traditionally been the preserve of larger companies, but in recent years the amount of data small to medium-sized businesses can generate has increased to the…
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CockroachDB, the database that just won’t die
There is an art to engineering and sometimes engineering can transform art. For Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis, the two worlds collided when they created the open-source graphics program, GIMP.
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How engineers fought the CAP theorem in the global war on latency
The founders of Cockroach Labs wanted to ensure data written in one location would be viewable immediately anywhere on the planet. The use case was simple, but the work needed was herculean.
