2019 edit

2019-01-09 Peter

Hello - and welcome back. I hope you’ve had a good break. Let’s see what’s happened whilst we’ve been gone…

Technology updates (details are on the relevant technology pages):

Cloudera have released v6.1 of CDH, Cloudera Manager, Cloudera Navigator and Cloudera Altus Director
Apache Calcite has hit 1.18
Apache Drill has hit 1.15
Apache Knox has hit 1.2
Amazon EMR is up to 5.20
Hortonworks Data Analytics Studio has hit 1.2
OpenTSDB has hit 2.4
Elasticsearch has a 7.0-alpha2 release out if you’re brave/interested
Apache DataFu] is up to 1.5

Other technology news:

Alibaba has acquired Data Artisans, the backers of Apache Flink - Datanami
The Cloudera + Hortonworks merger is now complete - Cloudera; Hortonworks; The Register; ZDNet; Datanami
It’s a new year, so everyone has their review of 2018 and look forward to 2019 articles out - ZDNet; ZDNet again; And again ZDNet; Datanami
Hudi, which we looked at recently, has just been submitted to the Apache Incubator - link
Cloudera has a new edition of Cloudera Data Science Workbench coming that runs over Kubernetes (instead of Hadoop) as is targetted at Machine Learning in the cloud called Cloudera Machine Learning - announcement; ZDNet view
There’s more on the move to more restrictive open source licences to combat the exploitation of open source technologies by cloud providers - Datanami; Influx
Via DBEngines - a proposal for GQL, a new standard graph query langage - link
Apache Airflow is now a top level project - link
Apache Gearpump (a streaming service based on a micro-service Actor model) which was incubating has now been retired - link