The Mid Week News 22/05/2019 edit 
Once again, it’s time for the mid week news…
Technology updates (details are on the relevant technology pages):
- Apache Atlas has hit 2.0
- Apache Avro has hit 1.9
- Apache Solr has hit 8.1
- Greenplum has hit 5.19
- Elasticsearch and Elasticsearch Hadoop has been bumped to 6.8 and 7.1
- Greenplum have more details on their 6.0 release
Other technology news:
- Let’s call this out explicitly, but the 6.8 and 7.1 Elastic releases are solely to make security (TLS and RBAC, which were open sourced not so long ago) free, presumably in response to the new Elastic Open Distro - link
- Also from Elastic, they’ve announced Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK) - link
- And from DataStax, they’ve announced Constellation, their Cassandra as a service offering - link; ZDNet
- From ZDNet, the future of SAP Hana - link
- Latest updates from Microsoft on Cosmos DB - link
- And from Datanami - how ScyllaDB (an Apache Cassandra-compatible database) handles both OLAP and OLTP - link