The Mid Week News 02/05/2018 edit 
Wednesday is news day…
Technology updates (details are on the relevant technology pages):
- Apache HBase has seen it’s 2.0 GA release
- Apache Impala is up to 2.12
Other technology news:
- Azure SQL Data Warehouse is seen a major Generation 2 upgrade, it still uses Azure Blob Storage (decoupling compute from storage), but can now cache to local SSD disks, meaning performance is now on par with RedShift - link; ZDNet view
- And while we’re talking about Cloud Analytical Databases - Datanami have an article on the growth of Google BigQuery - link
- Thoughts from ZDNet on the maturity of Hadoop, including new features in Hadoop 3.x, Hortonworks DataPlane, IBM and Hortonworks pushing Atlas as a standard Enterprise metadata repository, and their new plans for ODPi
- Dremio has a 2.0 version out - I’d not heard of this before but it’s worth a look if you want to be able to exploit data from multiple sources and create (and automatically materialise) derived tables - ZDNet link
- Couple of interesting paper reviews from The Morning Papers this week
- Firstly - Skyway, which allows objects to be moved directly between JVM heaps on different machines avoiding the need for serialisation and de-serialization in distributed systems, apparently delivering a 16% performance increase over Spark using Kyro - link
- And secondly, and I love this sort of stuff - using the ASICs on network switches to deliver a co-ordination service (ala ZooKeeper) at ridiculous throughput and latency - link
- There are a bunch of CVE vulnerabilities announced for Apache Tika - CVE-2018-1338; CVE-2018-1339; CVE-2018-1335