The Mid Week News 25/07/2018 edit 
Time for the news again. Next news will be in three weeks as I’m taking some time off…
Technology updates (details are on the relevant technology pages):
- Apache Calcite has hit 1.17
- Apache HBase has hit 2.1
- Apache Ignite has hit 2.6
- Cloudera Altus SDX is now in beta
Other technology news:
- From Elastic - an Introduction to Elasticsearch SQL - part 1; part 2
- From The Register - what does 11-nines availablity (looking at Object Stores) actually mean - link
- From InfoQ, an interview with Hortonworks on HDP 3.0 - link
- From the Apache Kylin blog - benchmarking Kylin with a modified version of the TPC-H benchmark - link
- From Google - running JanusGraph (nee Titan) on Google Cloud over BigTable and Elasticsearch - link
- Databricks 4.2 is announced - link
- From Confluent - the difference between a Streaming Data Store (specifically Kafka) and an Enterprise Service Bus - link
- From the Pravega blog - streaming data in and out of Pravega - link
- From ZDNet - Apache Cassandra turns 10 - link
- Apache Ignite has a couple of security announcements - CVE-2018-1273 and CVE-2018-8018