Snowflake Marketplace is a vibrant resource, with hundreds of providers offering thousands of ready-to-try or ready-to-buy third-party data sets, applications and services. Many of these providers make their products available on Snowflake Marketplace for Snowflake customers to purchase — and they use our integrated Marketplace Monetization capabilities to simplify the process and speed up procurement and sales cycles.

We are proud to announce the release of Apache Kafka® 3.7.0. This release contains many new features and improvements. This blog post will highlight some of the more prominent features. For a full list of changes, be sure to check the release notes. See the Upgrading to 3.7.0 from any version 0.8.x through 3.6.x section in the documentation for the list of notable changes and detailed upgrade steps.

Welcome back to Yellowfin Japan’s ‘How to?’ blog series! In our previous blog, we went through how to capture data using Yellowfin's Data Transformation flow, and the preparation and steps for creating reports using Yellowfin View. It may seem like a lot of simple work, but as the number of reports to be created increases, the importance of data preparation becomes far more apparent. So, what about after you’ve done all the setup? Well, it’s now time to create reports!

When you ask customers what key features they want in a software system, you’ll receive many answers. Most of them will be specific technical features like viewing, order history, or the ability to easily save favorites. Yet when given a system that contains everything they asked for, the customers’ first responses are often along the lines of “It feels a little slow.” Nowhere is the impact of poor performance felt so keenly than in the retail application space.

In this article, we’re diving deep into the nuts and bolts of creating a private API gateway. From the initial installation to securing your API with keys and roles, we’ll walk you through every step of the process. Whether you’re looking to connect to a Microsoft SQL Server database or any other popular database, DreamFactory makes it a breeze, automating the tedious parts and letting you focus on what matters most: your data.

Today marks a monumental milestone: Autoscaling is now in public preview and available to all our users. Don't like to wake up in the middle of the night to scale up? Do you still have nightmares of the time you forgot to scale down your cloud infrastructure? Autoscaling is the answer: we adjust infrastructure to demand dynamically. We built our autoscaling feature to be: Autoscaling is powerful and raises some questions: It was the most requested feature on our feedback platform with new regions.

Introduced in 2023, SwiftData is the latest addition to the range of database framework options in Swift, Apple’s primary programming language for iOS. Built on top of Core Data, two levels above SQLite, it’s great for simplifying our persistent stores and it allows us to use declarative code, which is a really useful time-saver.

Everything you need to deploy high-performance serverless apps is available in Singapore: Singapore is our first Asia-Pacific region in GA, joining Washington, D.C. and Frankfurt, Germany, EU in the GA club with all our services available in these 3 regions. The new Eco instances are now available in Singapore and allow you to start for only $1.61/month, billed per second.

High cardinality is a term that often surfaces in discussions about data management and analysis. It refers to a situation where a dataset contains an unusually high number of unique values, presenting challenges when it comes to processing and analyzing the data. In this blog, we will explore the concept of high cardinality data, its implications for data analysis, and strategies for managing and analyzing it effectively.

When it comes to cloud data warehousing, the choice between Snowflake vs BigQuery is crucial for businesses that rely on big data analytics for decision-making. Snowflake, known for its flexibility and ease of use, contrasts with BigQuery, Google’s fully-managed, serverless data warehouse that excels in speed and scalability. Understanding the main differences between these two platforms is essential for selecting the right solution that aligns with your data strategy and operational needs.