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Google Adds In-Memory BI Option to BigQuery — Response times for interactive queries in Google BigQuery are about to get better thanks to a new in-memory BI option.

Storage in the Exabyte Era — Databases aren’t just dependent on algorithms and code, storage is a pressing factor too. As a petabyte (~1000 terabytes) begins to look tame by some data systems’ standards, how is the industry adapting to a world where exabyte workloads could become commonplace?

Python Dominates in the Data Space, Usage Survey Confirms — Data scientists, machine learning developers and data engineers are (continuing to) turn decisively to the Python programming language, according to a new study.

ML and BI Are Coming Together, Gartner Says — The convergence of machine learning and business intelligence is upon us, claims Gartner, as BI tool makers increasingly are exposing ML capabilities to users. This has been a long running trend IME, but it’s nice to see it acknowledged.

Demand for Data Engineers Up 50%, Report Says — Dice’s ‘Tech Job Report’ indicates that data engineer and machine learning engineer are two of the fastest growing, in-demand roles in the US (though augmented reality and VR engineers are in the lead, curiously).

Apache Flink Powers Cloudera's New Streaming Analytics Product — Cloudera’s new Cloudera Streaming Analytics (CSA) tool is aimed at processing large amounts of IoT and event data and is based on Apache Flink, a data stream computation system.

2019: A Big Data Year in Review — Datanami reflects on 10 big data trends they said ‘to watch in 2019’ by looking at what actually unfolded.

Three Surprising Ways Archiving Data Can Save Serious Money — If you’re at the size where reducing your data usage reduces your building costs, I’m not sure how surprising these ideas will be 😂

Aerospike Raises More Cash ($32M To Be Precise) — Aerospike is a real-time NoSQL database vendor and one of the first non-relational database vendors to embrace Intel’s Optane persistent memory.

The Machine Data Intelligence Market Heats Up — The rise of connected devices and the flood of unstructured data they churn out is spurring the introduction of new machine data intelligence platforms.

TimescaleDB Delivers Another Option for Time-Series Analytics — A high level look at the story behind TimescaleDB, an extension for Postgres that brings powerful time-series data storage and analytics functionality to the popular RDBMS.

Data Navigator Uses NLP for Queries — A new AI-based data ‘navigation system’ is billed as the first analytics platform to use natural language processing to generate SQL queries from spoken requests (think Alexa meets data analysis).

Kafka Transforming Into 'Event Streaming Database' — And rapidly following on from the previous item.. “Don’t look now, but Kafka is transforming into a database. That’s the new direction the popular event streaming platform is headed..”

Kafka Spawns Open-Source KarelDB — Apache Kafka and its accompanying key-value store are being used to provide persistent storage for a growing list of relational databases. KarelDB is a new such entrant and uses the Apache Calcite SQL parser to support ANSI SQL.

Enterprise Search in 2020 and Beyond: 5 Trends to Watch — Apparently enterprise search has remained ‘stuck in the 90s’ but 2020 will be the ‘year of enterprise search’ as AI and natural language approaches take hold.

Startup Rockset Adds SQL to DynamoDB — Rockset, the serverless search and analytics startup, has unveiled a SQL platform targeting AWS’s typically NoSQL DynamoDB.

Is Python Strangling R to Death? — The R language is targeted at the statistical computing and data analysis space, but despite a recent burst of popularity, it’s already being called “a dying language” thanks to Python’s ever increasing domination.