The Mid Week News 17/04/2019 edit 
Tick tock, tick tock - it’s time for the news again, and there’s a big bunch of announcements this week…
Technology updates (details are on the relevant technology pages):
- Elasticsearch and Elasticsearch-Hadoop have hit the big 7.0
- Elastic Cloud has hit 2.2
- Azure HDInsight has hit 4.0 (Hadoop 3.x)
- Qubole Data Service not supports GCP
- Amazon EMR has hit 5.22
- Apache Flink has hit 1.8
- Apache Myriad has hit 0.3
- Apache Kylin has a 3.0-alpha out
- InfluxDB has hit 2.0 alpha 8
Other technology news:
- Cloudera Flow Management and Cloudera Edge Management (part of the new Cloudera DataFlow, nee HDF) are now generally available - link
- Also from Cloudera, an update on Workload XM, and it’s beautiful visualisations of Spark jobs - link
- There’s a bunch of stuff out of the recent Google NEXT conference (thanks to longtime friend of the site Jeff for the heads-up) - announcement; Datanami view
- Cloud Data Fusion (beta) - a managed version of Cask Data Application Platform (CDAP) - an open source framework for building data analytic applications, which Google acquired back in May 2018
- Big Query BI Engine (beta) - in memory analysis service that accelerates query response times from BigQuery for Looker, Google Data Studio, and Google Sheets
- Connected Sheets (beta) - ability to access BigQuery through Google Sheets
- Data Catalog (beta) - managed metadata management service
- ZDNet have a couple of good summaries of the open source partnership announcements at Google NEXT, including their thoughts on what this means for open source - link; link
- Datanami have a story on a new high performance massively parallel in memory graph database from Cray alumni called Trovares xGT - link