Data Management News for the Week of December 23; Updates from AWS, Fivetran, MariaDB & More

The editors at Solutions Review have curated this list of the most noteworthy data management news items for the week of December 23, 2022.

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 23, 2022

Ascend.io Partners with Snowflake on Free Ingest

The new feature will address three critical ingest challenges: cost, complexity, and security. Although cloud adoption has pushed down IT infrastructure costs for many enterprises, data ingestion costs have become more of an obstacle in recent years.

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AWS Adds Enhanced Read Support for Delta Lake Table Format

Prior to this launch, reading Delta Lake tables in Athena required a complex process of generating and managing additional metadata files. Now you can use Athena to query Delta Lake tables directly without this additional effort.

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Fivetran Releases Findings from Benchmark of Leading Cloud Data Warehouses

Fivetran compared the cost and performance of five cloud data warehouses, including BigQuery, Databricks, Redshift, Snowflake, and Synapse. The big takeaway is that all of the cloud warehouses perform well, but some are easier to use and tune than others.

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MariaDB Goes Public on the NYSE as ‘MRDB’

MariaDB’s new generation relational database products are engineered to support any workload, any scale and any cloud enabling customers to do more with their data. MariaDB is focused on delivering cloud data services through MariaDB SkySQL that address a broad customer base.

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Qualytics Raises $2.5 Million in Venture Capital Funding for Data Quality Tool

The funding will be used to scale the company to meet growing demand from Fortune 500 enterprises deploying Qualytics as their data quality platform and brings the total raised to date by the company to over $5 million.

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Solutions Review Drops 96 Expert Data Management Predictions for 35 Experts for 2023 During BI Insight Jam

Data management predictions have been vetted for relevance and ability to add business value as well. These are the best predictions from the dozens we received. We believe these are actionable and may impact a number of verticals, regions, and organization sizes.

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