The Mid Week News - 24/01/2018 edit 
And it’s time for the news again…
Technology updates (details are on the relevant technology pages):
- Apache Impala has hit 2.11
- Greenplum continues it’s relentless development march to 5.4
- Alluxio is up to 1.7
- Apache HBase has it’s first 2.0 beta out
Other technology news:
- There’s an update from LinkedIn on the latest with Apache Gobblin including new features added since 0.11 - link
- Part 2 of Cloudera’s CDH deployment blog posts is up, focusing on “where Cloudera services and roles should be placed across the various nodes in your clusters” - link
- From Data Artisans - information on checkpointing in Apache Flink - link
- From ZDNet - an interview with Marko A. Rodriguez - the creator of the Titan graph database (now JanusGraph), DSE Graph and TinkerPop - link
- Bloor have issued a Market Report Paper on SQL Engines on Hadoop - covering Hadoop query engines capabilities, transactional (operational) capabilities and some analytical database - link