Data Management News for the Week of December 1; Updates from AWS, Monte Carlo, Satori & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable data management news for the week of December 1, 2023.

Keeping tabs on all the most relevant big data and data management news can be a time-consuming task. As a result, our editorial team aims to provide a summary of the top headlines from the last week, in this space. Solutions Review editors will curate vendor product news, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital funding, talent acquisition, and other noteworthy big data and data management news items.

Top Data Management News for the Week Ending December 1, 2023

Airbyte Announces New Integration Connectors

Coming off the most recent Airbyte Hacktoberfest last month, there are now more than 20 Quickstart guides created by members of the user community, which provide step-by-step instructions and easy setup for different data movement use cases. For example, there are six for PostgreSQL related to moving data to Snowflake, BigQuery, and others.

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Altair and RapidMiner Launch Joint 2023 AI Data Analytics Platform

The Altair RapidMiner platform also utilizes ChatGPT’s new API so users can enable further customization without needing to write any code. In addition, users can access all 300,000 Hugging Face models with a single click and fine-tune models with billions of parameters.

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AWS Announces New Serverless Database Capabilities

The three new serverless offerings aim to help customers manage data at any scale and dramatically simplify their operations so they can focus on innovating for their end users without spending time and effort provisioning, managing, and scaling their data infrastructure.

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Confluent is Now Available on SAP

Founded by the original creators of Apache Kafka, Confluent provides businesses that use SAP solutions with a cloud-native and complete data streaming platform available everywhere it’s needed—in the cloud, across clouds, on-premises, and hybrid environments.

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Couchbase Announces New Capella Columnar Service

Capella columnar leverages AWS services as an integral part of the product architecture including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) and AWS Secrets Manager.

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Dremio Announces Major Platform Update; Drops 2024 State of the Data Lakehouse Report

Expanding on previously announced Generative AI text-to-SQL capabilities, Dremio is delivering new GenAI-powered data documentation and labeling to provide comprehensive business context for analytics, while reducing manual work. Dremio’s GenAI capabilities make Dremio the easiest analytics platform for all data users, allowing faster and more accurate data insights.

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Fluree Releases Public Preview of JSON-LD Database

The latest version of Fluree will focus on JSON-LD to enable composable, decentralized data management and offers a knowledge graph database with built in policy, trust and interoperability. Fluree’s latest version marks the first cloud-based database that enables direct updates and queries in JSON-LD format.

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Hitachi Vantara Announces the Pentaho+ Integrated Data Platform

Automating the work of complex data management with powerful self-service and cloud-agnostic solutions, Pentaho+ helps improve data quality by allowing organizations to effectively oversee data from inception to deployment.

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IBM Intros Db2 on AWS

IBM Db2 is a suite of products that boasts a solid foundation in data management, with a strong customer portfolio that spans from banking, supply chain and retail sectors worldwide. Combining IBM’s decades-long expertise in database solutions with AWS cloud innovation will significantly boost efficiency in a cost-effective manner.

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Immuta Unveils Native Integration with Amazon S3 Storage

With Immuta’s Data Security Platform and Amazon S3’s new Access Grants feature, users can centralize access control management, and leverage attribute-based access controls (ABAC) to grant permissions for objects in Amazon S3 storage. Immuta builds on Amazon S3 controls, increasing efficiencies with fewer policies and lower manual effort, reducing operational costs and opening up new revenue streams.

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Infomatica Expands Partnerships with AWS, MongoDB

Together, the companies have collaborated on joint solutions across financial services, insurance and healthcare to combine the benefits of MongoDB Atlas with Informatica’s MDM and domain-specific applications such Customer 360, Product 360, Supplier 360, and Reference 360.

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Matillion Announces New Gen AI Features Using Amazon Bedrock

A longtime AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner, Matillion adds generative AI integration with a prompt component supporting Amazon Bedrock to enable users to operationalise the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) inside the data pipeline, to address intelligent data integration tasks including data enrichment, data quality and data classification among others.

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Neo4j Signs Strategic Collab with AWS

Neo4j also announced the general availability of Neo4j Aura Professional, the company’s fully managed graph database offering, in AWS Marketplace, enabling a frictionless, fast-start experience for developers on generative AI.

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PlanetScale Introduces Insights Anomalies

The goal is to provide a crystal clear overview of your database’s health and make it easy to troubleshoot when something goes wrong. This post will explore Insights Anomalies and show how we implemented it.

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Precisely Secures Amazon Redshift Service Ready Designation

Businesses can now ensure their data on AWS has the maximum levels of integrity needed to drive confident decision-making, whether detecting issues before they impact business systems downstream, delivering the highest-quality data, uncovering new relationships, or enriching data with added context.

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Privacera Integrates AI Governance Tool with AWS

PAIG provides a comprehensive suite of built-in product capabilities to address privacy, security, and compliance requirements associated with building generative AI applications. Whether using some of the open-source, public FMs or customizing private FMs, the same consistent security controls can be applied to training and tuning data

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Expert Insights Section

Watch this space each week as our editors will share upcoming events, new thought leadership, and the best resources from Insight Jam, Solutions Review’s enterprise tech community for business software pros. The goal? To help you gain a forward-thinking analysis and remain on-trend through expert advice, best practices, trends and predictions, and vendor-neutral software evaluation tools.

Solutions Review Editors Announce Speaker Lineup for 5th Annual BI Insight Jam on December 7

Announced on LinkedIn this week! Your Insight Jam journey starts here and starts now. We encourage you to dive in, explore, share, and engage. Let’s challenge ideas, bring new perspectives, and elevate our knowledge together. And tune in for 6 (!) LIVE Executive Roundtable panels here and here on December 7.

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Solutions Review Editors Announce Speaker Lineup for 5th Annual BUDR Insight Jam on December 8

Announced on LinkedIn this week! Your Insight Jam journey starts here and starts now. We encourage you to dive in, explore, share, and engage. Let’s challenge ideas, bring new perspectives, and elevate our knowledge together. And tune in for 4 (!) LIVE Executive Roundtable panels here and here on December 7.

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For consideration in future data management news roundups, send your announcements to the editor: tking@solutionsreview.com.