The Mid Week News 13/03/2019 edit 
Roll up for this weeks news…
Technology updates (details are on the relevant technology pages):
- Apache Beam has hit 2.11
- Amazon EMR is up to 5.21
Other technology news:
- This is the big news of the week - AWS have forked Elasticsearch (although they claim it’s not a fork) as the Open Distro for Elasticsearch, and have added in a bunch of altering, SQL, security, audit and fine-grained access control features - homepage
- From AWS, their rationale in a couple of blog posts - announcement; rationale
- Response from Elastic - link
- Analysis from a bunch of sites - The Register; Datanami; Influx
- And we’ve posted these previous, but some background on the recent noise about cloud providers killing open source - InfoQ, Datanami; Influx; Confluent
- From ZDNet, and excellent article on standardisation coming to Graph and RDF - link
- Starburst (the commercial product based on Presto) has a new major release - link
- Via DZone, a pretty good article (because it doesn’t talk about features) on choosing between Solr and Elasticsearch - link
- Datanami has a couple of blogs on Spark and why it’s been successful and is growing - link; link
- Solr has a new vulnerabliity - CVE-2019-0192
- Azure Premium Blob Storage is in public preview - link
- Couple of updates from the Hue blog - Impala query explain plans and troubleshooting and Hue in Docker
- And finally, from the Flink blog, how to integrate Flink and Prometheus - link