The Mid Week News 16/01/2019 edit 
We’re a week into our new year, and it’s time for the news again…
Technology updates (details are on the relevant technology pages):
- Apache Flume is up to 1.9 (over a year since it’s last release)
- Apache Kylin is up to 2.6
- StreamSets Data Collector is up to 3.7
Other technology news:
- Datanami have the lowdown on the new Cloudera roadmap link
- Amazon Web Services has a new NoSQL Document DB service compatible with MongoDB - announcement; blog
- Parquet performance with Hive has got a boost from CDH 6.0 with support for vectorisation - link
- Hortonworks are continuing to push federation capabilities in Hive - JDBC federation with push down; Kafka federation
- And Hortonworks are also talking about their better Hive and Spark integration via their Apache Hive Warehouse Connector - link