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Preview release of Spark 3.0 To enable wide-scale community testing of the upcoming Spark 3.0 release, the Apache Spark community has posted a preview release of Spark 3.0 . This preview is not a stable release in terms of either API or functionality, but it is meant to give the community early access to try the code that will become Spark 3.0. If you would like to test the release, please download it, and send feedback using either the mailing lists or JIRA. The Spark issue tracker already contains a list of features in 3.0.

On November fourth, we announced Azure Synapse Analytics, the next evolution of Azure SQL Data Warehouse. Azure Synapse is a limitless analytics service that brings together enterprise data warehousing and Big Data analytics. It gives you the freedom to query data on your terms, using either serverless on-demand or provisioned resources—at scale. Azure Synapse brings these two worlds together with a unified experience to ingest, prepare, manage, and serve data for immediate business intelligence and machine learning needs. With Azure Synapse, data professionals can query both relational and non-relational data using the familiar SQL language. This can be done using either serverless on-demand queries for data exploration and ad hoc analysis or provisioned resources for your most demanding data warehousing needs. A single service for any workload. In fact, it’s the first and only analytics system to have run all the TPC-H queries at petabyte-scale. For current SQL Data Warehouse custome

Aura is an entirely new, built-from-the-ground-up, multi-tenant graph DBaaS based on Neo4j. It lets any developer take advantage of the best graph database in the world via a frictionless service in the cloud.  When we began building Neo4j all those years ago, we wanted to give developers a database that was very powerful, flexible… and accessible to all. We believed that open source was the best way to bring this product to developers worldwide. Since then, the vast majority of our paying customers have started out with data practitioners leading the way. Individual developers downloaded Neo4j, experimented with it, and realized graphs were an ideal way to model and traverse connected data. However, only a few of those developers had direct access to a budget to make the leap to our Enterprise Edition. Neo4j Aura bridges that gap for individuals, small teams and established startups. I believe this is the next logical step in Neo4j’s vision to help the world make sense of data. Th

The CCM, the only meta-framework of cloud-specific security controls, mapped to leading standards, best practices and regulations. CCM provides organizations with the needed structure, detail and clarity relating to information security tailored to cloud computing. CCM is currently considered a de-facto standard for cloud security assurance and compliance. Download >>>