Hardwood, the project Gunnar Morling kick-started handling of Parquet files in Java, reached version 1. Its multi-threaded approach and zero mandatory external dependencies promise a simpler, more ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. These DP-100 questions are focused on commonly misunderstood Azure Machine Learning concepts. If ...

Edge, a leading open source enterprise Postgres company, is launching pgEdge ColdFront, a transparent data tiering solution for PostgreSQL. Unlike other alternatives, ColdFront's cold tier is fully ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. In helping students prepare for this exam, I have identified a number of commonly misunderstood ...

Microsoft is bringing even more database options into the Microsoft Fabric fold, alongside a series of initiatives that aim to help tackle enterprise data complexity. For literally generations of ...

Microsoft has introduced new AI-driven features within the Microsoft Fabric data platform to accelerate application development and improve other enterprise functions. As 2025 approaches, managing ...

After speaking at the European Fabric Community Conference last month, I followed it up with the Dataminds Connect event in Mechelen, Belgium, in early October. As a longtime conference speaker, I ...

Apache Spark has emerged as one of the most powerful tools for big data processing providing capabilities for handling vast datasets quickly and efficiently. It offers a unified analytics engine for ...

Ever since Microsoft introduced SQL Server Stretch Database in 2016, our guiding principles for such hybrid data storage solutions have always been affordability, security, and native Azure ...

AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented ...

Microsoft Fabric is an end-to-end suite of cloud-based tools for data analytics, encompassing data movement, data storage, data engineering, data integration, data science, real-time analytics, and ...