Micah Wylde, principal engineer at Cloudflare, Alex Graham, senior systems engineer at Cloudflare, and Jérôme Schneider, staff software engineer at Cloudflare, explain: Analytical data is critical for modern companies. It allows you to understand your users' behavior, your company's performance, and alerts you to issues. But traditional data infrastructure is expensive and hard to operate, requiring fixed cloud infrastructure and in-house expertise. We built the Cloudflare Data Platform to be easy enough for anyone to use with affordable, usage-based pricing.
Qlik is making Open Lakehouse generally available. The Apache Iceberg service promises real-time pipelines and automatic optimization without vendor lock-in. The solution combines change data capture (CDC) with automatic Iceberg optimization. Teams can continue to use their existing tools, including Amazon Athena, Snowflake, Spark, Trino, and Amazon SageMaker. During the preview phase, customers reported faster queries and significantly lower infrastructure costs. Qlik Open Lakehouse is now available to all Talend Cloud users.
Fabric was launched in 2023 as a unified cloud platform for data and analytics. Later that same year, mirroring was added, a feature that allows data from existing warehouses and databases to be added and managed without complex ETL processes or self-built data pipelines. With the latest update, organizations can replicate a snapshot of Oracle and BigQuery databases to OneLake, the lakehouse system within Fabric, where the copies remain synchronized with the source databases in near real time.
This introduces latency, complexity and what we call 'bloat,' explains Chad Meley, SVP of Marketing at StarTree. We're collapsing that serving and query layer into one piece of the puzzle, significantly reducing the bloat and simplifying that architecture.