Data Management explained

Data is the information that drives business. It can be structured in rows and columns, like a customer name, address, and phone; and it can be unstructured, such as an email or a social media post. Structured data is what is populated in Relational Database Management Systems such as those created by Oracle, IBM and Microsoft, and open-source PostgreSQL and MySQL, among others. That data can be accessed using the standard Structured Query Language (SQL). Unstructured data resides in what are called NoSQL databases, such as Cassandra, Couchbase, MongoDB and many, many others. Many organizations today run both kinds of databases.

Once the data is stored, it must be easily retrievable, found amid the mountains of data organizations collect, and made available at scale. Numerous tools exist for those jobs, including Hadoop, Apache Spark and many more. It is through the collection and analysis of data that businesses can make decisions that affect their bottom line.

Google Safe Browsing now performs real-time checks in privacy-preserving manner

Google has announced a new way to further protect its privacy-minded users who are browsing using Google Safe Browsing, which is a Google Search setting that warns users when they may be entering a potentially dangerous site.  While it has warned users about harmful sites across 5 billion devices since its launch 15 years ago, … continue reading

SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: OpenHouse

LinkedIn has announced it is open sourcing its control plane for managing tables in data lakehouse deployments. The tool, called OpenHouse, has been in use at LinkedIn for the past year. The company has 3,500 OpenHouse tables in production currently.  It was designed to offer self-service management of tables in open data lakehouses. According to … continue reading

Data integration and alignment will dictate generative AI’s impact on digital transformation

Generative AI has taken the enterprise world by storm throughout 2023 – and for good reason. From a digital transformation perspective, it has the potential to amplify efficiency to new heights at a time when it’s needed most. Most enterprise digital transformation efforts today fail. A recent Gartner report found that nearly 70% of CFOs … continue reading

Ibis 8.0 lets data teams write code once across different engines

Voltron Data has announced the release of Ibis 8.0, an update to its popular Python dataframe API, which has been downloaded over 10 million times. Ibis enables developers to run code across various data platforms by choosing the most suitable query engine for specific tasks.  The latest version introduces the first dedicated streaming backends for … continue reading

Solving the puzzle of entity resolution with an easy-to-use API

Entity resolution — the process of determining when data records are about the same person, organization or other entity, despite differences in how they are described — is an important problem for companies to solve if they want to improve data quality and outcomes, but the process can be a complicated one. Brian Macy, director … continue reading

Data Privacy Week 2024 encourages taking control of your data

This week is Data Privacy Week, with this year’s event theme being “take control of your data.” Hosted by the National Cybersecurity Alliance, Data Privacy Week (and Day) is an annual outreach event that focuses on a different theme each year.  “With this year’s theme of ‘Take Control of Your Data,’ Data Privacy Week holds … continue reading

Find Anything, Anywhere, Instantly: dtSearch Makes Information Retrieval a Breeze

Drowning in documents? Buried in emails? Forget endless scrolling and time-consuming searches. dtSearch is here to be your information hero, offering lightning-fast retrieval across mountains of data. Whether you’re a lone researcher or a large enterprise, dtSearch has a solution tailored to your needs. At its core, dtSearch is a powerful full-text search engine. It … continue reading

How GenAI and Low-Code are Turbo-Charging Software Development

When low-code platforms first burst onto the scene, many considered them game-changers. The ability to rely less on traditional programmers, despite limited coding knowledge, promised a democratizing revolution in software, even if questions of governance at scale, security, and long-term maintenance were not yet fully resolved. But as businesses grew and innovated, many companies still … continue reading

SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Data Profiler

Data Profiler is an open-source Python library that originated at Capital One to analyze datasets and detect if any of the information contained within is sensitive data, such as bank account numbers, credit card information, or social security numbers.  According to the company, when data streams grow large enough, it can be quite difficult to … continue reading

Quest Software unveils new standalone Toad Data Studio solution to simplify database management and analysis

Quest Software, a provider of systems management, data protection, and security software, has announced the general availability of Toad Data Studio. This all-in-one platform is designed to streamline database management across multi-database platform environments. The release comes at a time when the complexity of database infrastructure is increasing and enterprises are struggling with agility and … continue reading

DataStax revamps Astra DB experience with new Data API, new client libraries, and more

DataStax has announced that it has revamped the developer experience for Astra DB, which is a vector database used for building AI applications.  First, it is releasing a new API for building generative AI applications: the Astra DB Data API. This new API helps developers create these apps by providing all of the necessary data … continue reading

Google Cast adds Output Switcher to transfer media across devices among other updates

Google has announced significant improvements to Google Cast, including the Output Switcher, accessible via the Android System UI.  This feature facilitates the transfer and control of media across different devices and technical protocols. With the release of Output Switcher 2.0 on Android U, improvements include enhanced volume control, device categorization, and support for devices with … continue reading

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