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2017-10-04 Peter

Time for the news again, with all our updates on new technology releases and interesting things to read…

Technology updates (details are on the relevant technology pages):

Apache Calcite is up to 1.14
Apache NiFi is up to 1.4
Elastic Cloud is now generally available on GCP (after being in beta since April)
Cloudera Altus now supports Azure
Elasticsearch 6.0 release candidate 1 (RC1) (not for production) is out

Other technology news:

From MapR, and these are always good for a read, a post on why MapR-DB is better than Cassandra, HBase and others
And another face-off - this time a post on Flink vs Spark
It’s another interesting Confluence post (YMMV), this time on machine learning with Kafka
Thoughts from ZDNet on the recent Strata NY event
Azure HDInsight now supports Interactive Query, aka Hive on LLAP as a service
There are a bunch of security vulnerability announcements this week
- CVE-2017-9792 - malicious user with “ALTER” permissions on an Impala table can access any other Kudu table data
- CVE-2017-9797 - unauthenticated client can enter multi-user authentication mode in Apache Geode
- CVE-2017-9794 - user with read privileges can use the gfsh command line utility to execute queries with Apache Geode