Spark creator bags computing gong for making big data a little bit smaller

When Zaharia started work on Spark around 2010, analyzing "big data" generally meant using MapReduce, the Java-based ...

DuckDB uses RDBMS to attack classic 'small changes' problem in lakehouses

The team behind in-process OLAP database DuckDB has put forward a solution to the "small changes" problem that they say ...
Chris Webb's BI Blog

Power BI And Support For Third Party Semantic Models

I’ve been working with Microsoft BI tools for 28 years now and for all that time Microsoft has been consistent in its belief ...

EDB Postgres(R) AI Delivers Superior Predictability vs. Cloud Data Warehouses in High-Concurrency Benchmark, Unveils Q1 Platform Updates to Power the Agentic AI Era

Independent benchmark by McKnight Consulting Group reveals EDB Postgres AI for WarehousePG delivers up to 58% cost savings and more consistent concurrent performance, while new platform features ...
TMCnet

Kumo Launches KumoRFM-2, the First Foundation Model to Outperform Machine Learning on Enterprise Data, Scaling to 500 Billion Rows

Built on a new architecture KumoRFM-2 achieves state-of-the-art results across 41 predictive tasks and four major benchmarks, ...

Snowflake: Cheap Enough To Watch, Not Yet Cheap Enough To Buy

Snowflake faces structural issues, hyperscaler rent, geopolitical data localization, and self-inflicted pricing pressure from ...