The Mid Week News 24/10/2018 edit 
It’s Wednesday, which means it’s time to catch up on the news…
Technology updates (details are on the relevant technology pages):
- Apache CarbonData is up to 1.5
- Greenplum has hit 5.12
- HDP Search has a 4.0 release
- Hue has hit 4.3
Other technology news:
- There’s more views on the Cloudera - Hortonworks merger, this time with a more negative view, including a post from MapR brilliantly titled “Two Wrongs Don’t Make A Right” - MapR; Bloor Research; Datanami
- Teradata have been talking about their new strategy and there’s commentry - ZDNet; Datanami
- And a view on SAP, this time from The Register - link
- The Register have a summary of the latest Gartner Object and Distributed File Storage Magic Quadrant - link
- This was interesting - from Cloudera a post on the work they do to manage and rationalise third party library dependancies in Hadoop - link
- More InfoQ, then best practices for deploying Kafka - link
- There’s a big post on the internals of Pravega, the Kafka challenger - link
- And HDInsight now supports caching of object storage using the RubiX framework open sourced by Qubole - link