Apache Kafka

Confluent Unveils Tableflow to Unite Analytics and Operations with Data Streaming

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Tuesday, March 19, 2024
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Confluent Tableflow easily transforms Apache Kafka® topics and the associated schemas to Apache Iceberg® tables with a single click to better supply data lakes and data warehouses.

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  • Confluent Tableflow easily transforms Apache Kafka® topics and the associated schemas to Apache Iceberg® tables with a single click to better supply data lakes and data warehouses.
  • The analytical estate includes data warehouses, data lakes, and analytics engines that power analytics and decision-making and use data streams and historical tables to run queries and different analytical functions.
  • Connectors address the challenges of traditional data architectures that can silo data, decrease data quality, and lead to unplanned downtime.
  • Schema Registry is a crucial component for governing data streams, helping teams enforce universal data standards to ensure data quality and data consistency while reducing operational complexity.

WarpStream Labs Raises $20M to Modernize Data Streaming with a Cloud Native Replacement for Apache Kafka

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Thursday, March 14, 2024
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WarpStream Labs, the cloud native data streaming infrastructure company, announced it raised $20M in funding led by Greylock and Amplify Partners.

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  • WarpStream Labs, the cloud native data streaming infrastructure company, announced it raised $20M in funding led by Greylock and Amplify Partners.
  • Data streaming is becoming increasingly important as organizations seek to leverage real time data capabilities to gain competitive advantage.
  • Yet almost all modern data streaming stacks are built on-top of Apache Kafka, which was designed in 2011 to run in static data centers.
  • But we realized that Husky only addressed part of the problem – all the data still had to flow through Apache Kafka,” said Richard Artoul, CEO and Co-Founder of WarpStream Labs.

GridGain to Sponsor, Exhibit at Kafka Summit 2024 in London

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Tuesday, March 12, 2024
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FOSTER CITY, Calif., March 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- GridGain®, provider of the leading unified real-time data platform, today announced the company will be a Silver Sponsor of the Kafka Summit 2024, taking place March 19-20, 2024 at the ExCel London. GridGain will be demonstrating its unified real-time data platform in Booth #210. The Kafka Summit is the premier event for the Apache Kafka community, where data architects, engineers, DevOps professionals and developers can take a deep dive into streaming technologies.

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  • FOSTER CITY, Calif., March 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- GridGain ® , provider of the leading unified real-time data platform, today announced the company will be a Silver Sponsor of the Kafka Summit 2024 , taking place March 19-20, 2024 at the ExCel London.
  • GridGain will be demonstrating its unified real-time data platform in Booth #210.
  • The Kafka Summit is the premier event for the Apache Kafka community, where data architects, engineers, DevOps professionals and developers can take a deep dive into streaming technologies.
  • "We look forward to networking with the incredible Kafka community and sharing the power of our unified real-time data platform to power stream processing and analytics at ultra-low latencies."

SingleStore Achieves the AWS Generative AI Competency

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Wednesday, March 6, 2024
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SingleStore , the data platform that allows you to transact, analyze and contextualize data in real time, today announced it has achieved the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Generative AI Competency in the category of Infrastructure and Data.

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  • SingleStore , the data platform that allows you to transact, analyze and contextualize data in real time, today announced it has achieved the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Generative AI Competency in the category of Infrastructure and Data.
  • This specialization recognizes SingleStore as an AWS Partner that helps customers and the AWS Partner Network (APN) drive the advancement of services, tools and infrastructure pivotal for implementing generative AI technologies.
  • Achieving the AWS Generative AI Competency differentiates SingleStore as an AWS Partner that has demonstrated technical proficiency and proven customer success supporting customer pain points and boosting customer experience.
  • “We’re excited to achieve the AWS Generative AI Competency at launch and know this will allow us to leverage AWS to provide our customers with the tools they need to succeed.”
    The AWS Competency Program aims to assist customers in connecting with AWS Partners who possess extensive knowledge and technical expertise in using AWS technologies and best practices to adopt generative AI.

SingleStore Accelerates Go-to-Market Strategy with AWS

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Tuesday, March 5, 2024
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With this collaboration with AWS, SingleStore is better equipped to provide the underlying architecture needed to support high scalability, real-time performance, security, ease of integration and manage AI workloads demand at scale.

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  • With this collaboration with AWS, SingleStore is better equipped to provide the underlying architecture needed to support high scalability, real-time performance, security, ease of integration and manage AI workloads demand at scale.
  • “By strengthening our collaboration with AWS, we hope to continue to provide users with context for their generative AI applications with speed, scale and simplicity,” said Madhukar Kumar, CMO, SingleStore.
  • “Our whole network is powered by AWS, and by collaborating with SingleStore it’s so easy to integrate with our existing infrastructure,” said Jack Chamberlain, Engineering Manager, Jigsaw Dating.
  • The SingleStore Managed Service, a fully managed, on-demand, and elastic relational database, is effortlessly deployable on AWS.

Astronomer Achieves Exceptional Company Growth Driven by Astro, the Apache Airflow-Powered Platform, and Relocates HQ to New York City

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Tuesday, February 13, 2024
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NEW YORK, Feb. 13, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Astronomer , the leader in modern data orchestration, announced a 292% year-over-year growth in revenue for Astronomer's Astro, its Apache Airflow-powered platform.

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  • NEW YORK, Feb. 13, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Astronomer , the leader in modern data orchestration, announced a 292% year-over-year growth in revenue for Astronomer's Astro, its Apache Airflow-powered platform.
  • Moreover, Apache Airflow downloads have surged to 30 million a month, demonstrating a robust 68% year-over-year growth.
  • Airflow surpassed Apache Spark and Apache Kafka with over 2,700 contributors making it one of the most successful Apache projects of all time.
  • "As Apache Airflow powers more and more critical business applications, demand for data uptime becomes a priority.

Confluent Migration Accelerator Simplifies the Switch to a Complete Data Streaming Platform

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Tuesday, February 13, 2024
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Confluent, Inc. (NASDAQ:CFLT), the data streaming pioneer, today announced the Confluent Migration Accelerator, a new program in partnership with the Confluent partner ecosystem to jumpstart organizations' data streaming journeys.

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  • Confluent, Inc. (NASDAQ:CFLT), the data streaming pioneer, today announced the Confluent Migration Accelerator, a new program in partnership with the Confluent partner ecosystem to jumpstart organizations' data streaming journeys.
  • Several Confluent partners have joined the Confluent Migration Accelerator to make this migration easier.
  • “The Confluent Migration Accelerator will make it easy for organizations to swiftly reap the benefits of the only data streaming platform that streams, governs, processes and connects real-time data.
  • Confluent empowers customers to leverage valuable legacy data to power modern, cloud-based apps and experiences.”
    Key benefits of the Confluent Migration Accelerator include:
    Press the “easy button” for a simplified migration - Partner with leading data streaming experts to augment staff, access funding credits (subject to approval), and accelerate the migration with packaged migration offerings.

Progress Enables Developers to Accelerate Application Modernization with Latest Release of OpenEdge

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Tuesday, February 6, 2024
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BURLINGTON, Mass., Feb. 06, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Progress (Nasdaq: PRGS), the trusted provider of infrastructure software, today announced the latest release of Progress® OpenEdge®, the flagship application development platform used by over 100,000 customers across the globe to simplify the delivery of mission-critical business applications. By leveraging the new features and enhancements of OpenEdge 12.8, organizations can optimize their development processes, improve database performance, enhance application security and stay current with the evolving technology landscape.

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  • Metrics assist in managing your OpenEdge applications, while traces provide developers with deep insights into application performance to identify code bottlenecks and optimize application performance.
  • Faster turn-around on builds: With incremental build support, developers can change their codebase and quickly rebuild only the affected parts.
  • OpenEdge 12.8 delivers advancements in application integration and environment management through improved monitoring and administration capabilities.
  • For more information, visit https://www.progress.com/openedge/whats-new or register for the What’s New In OpenEdge 12.8 webinar occurring February 22.

Confluent Named a Leader in Streaming Data Platforms

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Wednesday, December 6, 2023
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(NASDAQ:CFLT), the data streaming pioneer, today announced it was named a Leader by Forrester Research in The Forrester Wave™: Streaming Data Platforms, Q4 2023 .

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  • (NASDAQ:CFLT), the data streaming pioneer, today announced it was named a Leader by Forrester Research in The Forrester Wave™: Streaming Data Platforms, Q4 2023 .
  • “Streaming data platforms give organizations the ultimate advantage: blazing-fast reflexes to conquer intraday business challenges and opportunities,” wrote Mike Gualtieri in The Streaming Data Platforms Landscape, Q3 2023.
  • “We founded Confluent in response to a critical need for reliable, scalable data streams, and we believe our placement as a leader in this category validates our approach to delivering a complete, enterprise-ready data streaming platform.”
    At the heart of the data streaming movement is Apache Kafka®.
  • With the only data streaming platform that streams , governs , processes , and connects real-time data, organizations can break down data barriers and easily reuse and access data streams for endless use cases.

Couchbase Announces New Capella Columnar Service To Enable Real-Time Analytics for Adaptive Applications

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Monday, November 27, 2023
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LAS VEGAS, Nov. 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Couchbase, Inc. (NASDAQ: BASE), the cloud database platform company, today announced a new Capella columnar service on Amazon Web Services (AWS) at AWS re:Invent 2023, enabling organizations to harness real-time analytics to build adaptive applications. Capella columnar is a new service that introduces a columnar store and data integration into the Capella Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS), thereby allowing for real-time data analysis on the same platform as operational workloads. By converging operational and real-time analytic applications into one database platform, Couchbase removes friction to deliver a premium customer experience. For more information about Capella columnar and to sign up for the private preview, please visit https://www.couchbase.com/products/analytics/.

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  • Capella columnar is a new service that introduces a columnar store and data integration into the Capella Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS), thereby allowing for real-time data analysis on the same platform as operational workloads.
  • Real-time analytics are paramount to delivering these adaptive applications, and AI is making them even better and more strategic," said Scott Anderson, SVP of product management and business operations at Couchbase.
  • "With columnar in our Capella DBaaS, for the first time organizations can easily build adaptive applications powered by real-time analytics in a single JSON-based platform.
  • Attendees can visit booth number 1095 to see a demo of Capella columnar and learn more about Capella for building adaptive applications.