Cloud Database Report Podcast
14 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago -Bi-weekly podcast explores the fast-growing world of data in the cloud, including database platforms, cloud services, analytics, and business use cases. Hosted by tech journalist and analyst John Foley with expert guests from across the database market.
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Podcast: Snowflake vs. Teradata
September 09, 2022 13:56 - 4 minutes - 6.7 MBHi everyone! This is an update to my recent blog post on the final days of the legacy data warehouse (link below). The topic of legacy data warehouses slowly fading away struck a chord with many readers. Now we have updates from Snowflake and Teradata. On Aug 24, the same day I published “The Final Days of the Legacy Data Warehouse,” Snowflake announced its earnings for Q2 FY2023. Not surprisingly, a question about legacy systems came up during Snowflake’s earnings call. One financial ana...
SingleStore CEO Raj Verma: How a Single, Unified Platform Can Ease Database Sprawl
April 09, 2022 14:16 - 48 minutesHas the database market attempted to solve data complexity — only to create even more complexity? That’s the argument of Raj Verma, CEO of SingleStore, who thinks he has the answer to the plethora of databases found in many of today’s IT environments: one database that can handle operational data, analytics, and many different data types in a single, unified platform. It’s not a new idea — the database industry went down the path of “universal databases” back in the 1990’s (i.e. Illustra...
Listen to this Article: 'Gartner's Cloud Database MQ - Who Didn't Make It and Why'
March 05, 2022 22:13 - 6 minutesThis audio article was originally published by the Cloud Database Report on March 2, 2022. Gartner’s Magic Quadrant has long served as a proof point of a vendor’s relevance in its respective market. But what about those that don’t make it into the quadrant? Here are my observations about six key players—DataStax, Micro Focus, MongoDB, Neo4j, Yellowbrick Data, and Yugabyte—that were not included in Gartner’s Cloud Database MQ for 2021. You can listen here, or read the full story below. ...
Teradata SVP Ashish Yajnik: What Is an 'Intelligent' Multi-Cloud
February 08, 2022 02:04 - 28 minutes - 25.9 MBMany of Teradata's customers continue to manage enterprise data warehouses on premises, while transitioning to cloud services over months or years. Yajnik is responsible for Teradata’s product transformation to the cloud, which is a high priority as the company repositions its data warehouse platform for use in hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Over the past few months, Teradata has struck industry partnerships with AWS and Microsoft Azure. Recent customer announcements include Telefoni...
Teradata on Top 3 Priorities, AWS Partnership, 'Intelligent' Multi-Clouds
February 06, 2022 15:41 - 28 minutesIn this episode of the Cloud Database Report Podcast, I talk with Ashish Yajnik, SVP of product management for data & analytics at Teradata, the old-school data warehouse company that is transitioning its platform and capabilities to the cloud. I’ve been covering Teradata for more that 20 years. Here’s an article I wrote for InformationWeek in 2007 when NCR spun off Teradata as a separate company. So I’ve been watching with interest as Teradata continues to modernize its data warehouse e...
Cloud Database Predictions for 2022
January 13, 2022 20:56 - 6 minutes - 5.98 MB2021 was a busy year for cloud databases, with startups like Cockroach Labs, DataStax, and SingleStore challenging larger, established vendors like Oracle, IBM, and SAP. And of course the Big 3 cloud providers - Microsoft, AWS, and Google Cloud. There’s a lot of momentum carrying into 2022. A few observations on products and platforms. First, I expect we will see more Exabyte-size databases, which are 1,000 times larger than the petabyte databases that many businesses operate today. We...
Ocient CEO Chris Gladwin: Analyzing the World's Largest Datasets
December 22, 2021 17:44 - 35 minutesOcient is a software startup that specializes in complex analysis of the world's largest datasets. Early adopters are hyperscale web companies and enterprises that need to analyze data sets of billions or trillions of records. Prior to Ocient, Gladwin was the founder of object storage vendor Cleversafe, acquired by IBM in 2015. That experience with mega-size data storage carried over to Ocient, whose software is optimized to run on NVMe solid state storage, industry standard CPUs, and 100...
Yellowbrick CTO Mark Cusack: What Is a Cloud-Native Data Warehouse?
November 11, 2021 12:42 - 26 minutesYellowbrick Data is a 7-year-old startup that continues to grow in the highly competitive cloud data warehouse market. Yellowbrick recently raised $75 million in its latest round of capital funding as it expands into a variety of industries, including telecom, healthcare, retail, and manufacturing. Yellowbrick describes itself as a cloud-native data warehouse. It is available for deployment on premises and in hybrid cloud and multi-cloud environments. Key topics from the interview includ...
TileDB CEO Stavros Papadopoulos: A Universal Database for Complex Data
November 03, 2021 14:37 - 33 minutesWith a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Papadopoulos worked as a research scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Intel Labs prior to launching TileDB. As he explains in this interview, the idea for TileDB originated in that research work in emerging big data systems and the hardware requirements to support those workloads. Universal databases are not new, but they are re-emerging as an alternative to the singl...
Yugabyte CTO Karthik Ranganathan: Where Data Lives Forever
September 13, 2021 15:07 - 25 minutesRanganathan discusses the design considerations that influenced development of YugabyteDB, including the learnings gleaned from the engineering team’s previous work at Facebook. YugabyteDB can be deployed on premises or as a cloud service. With built-in replication, YugabyteDB can be used to distribute data across geographic regions in support of data localization requirements and for high availability. Key topics in the interview include: The Yugabyte engineering team worked on the HBas...
Matillion's Ciaran Dynes: Data Transformation for Cloud Data Warehouses
August 27, 2021 17:03 - 30 minutesIn this episode of the Cloud Database Report Podcast, editor and host John Foley talks with Ciaran Dynes, Chief Product Officer of Matillion, about the process of integrating and preparing data for cloud data warehouses. Ciaran is responsible for product strategy and incorporating customer requirements into Matillion’s products, which include software tools for data integration and ETL/ELT. Key topics in the interview include: ETL, which stands for Extract, Transform, and Load, has been...
Google Cloud's Andi Gutmans: What's Driving Database Migrations and Modernization
July 28, 2021 16:35 - 25 minutesThe adoption of cloud databases is accelerating, driven by business transformation and the need for database modernization. In this episode of the Cloud Database Report Podcast, founding editor John Foley talks with Andi Gutmans, Google Cloud's GM and VP of Engineering for Databases, about the platforms and technologies that organizations are using to build and manage these new data environments. Gutmans is responsible for development of Google Cloud's databases and related technologies,...
Alexa Weber Morales: What's New in Database Development
July 01, 2021 21:46 - 33 minutesAlexa Weber Morales has years of experience writing about the developer community, cloud infrastructure, and database tools. She had a long career in tech journalism, including as Editor in Chief of Software Development magazine, prior to joining Oracle as a writer, editor, and content strategist. In this podcast, John Foley, Editor of the Cloud Database Report, talks to Alexa about cloud-native database development, digital transformation, online education, and more. The conversation ran...
Pinecone CEO Edo Liberty: New Vector Database Speeds ML Development
June 07, 2021 15:00 - 32 minutesPinecone Systems' new vector database provide similarity search as a cloud service. Use cases include recommendations, personalization, image search, and deduplication of records. A vector, or vector embedding, is a string of numbers that represents documents, images, or other data. Vectors are used in the development of machine learning applications. A vector database stores, searches, and retrieves the representations by similarity or by relevance. Pinecone’s vector database is accesse...