The Mid Week News 16/05/2018 edit 
It’s Wednesday, it’s the news (and it’s very quiet again)..
Technology updates (details are on the relevant technology pages):
- Apache Accumulo has seen a high priority security patch release (1.9.1)
- Apache Impala is up to 3.0
- Apache ORC is up to 1.5
- Greenplum continues it’s relentless release march with 5.8
Other technology news:
- Google have announced Google Cloud Memorystore for Google Cloud Platform - a NoSQL key value store with Redis compatibilitiy - link
- Microsoft have announced Kafka compatibility for Azure Event Hub - link
- Although it’s an advert for Snowflake, it’s also a passable summary of the evolution of data warehouse data platforms - link