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2017-11-01 Peter

It’s Wednesday, which means it’s time for the news…

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

Ambari has hit 2.6
Hadoop has hit 2.8.2, the first 2.8 GA release for production use
Cloudera have finally published their blog post on Data Science Workbench version 1.2 - link

Other technology news:

Hortonworks have announced the general availability of their first plugin for their new DataPlane Service - Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM) - link
Influx have a blog post on the internals of InfluxDB - link
Following up on the Linux Foundation open data licence last week, some expert views from The Register - link
From Amazon - how to build a Data Lake on AWS with AWS Glue and S3 - link
Thoughts from O’Reilly (via the Cloudera Vision Blog) on (Hadoop) data marts in the cloud - link
Following up on our look at analytical databases, an interview from ODBMS Industry Watch with Colin Mahony from Vertica - link
There’s a new vulnerability in Apache Tika - CVE-2016-6809 - allows Java code execution for serialized objects embedded in MATLAB files - link
And one in Apache Hive - CVE-2017-12625 - issues with column masking over views - link