Guest post by Mark Ferman, Sr. Oil & Gas Analytics Advisor Oil and Gas companies operate within one of the most demanding business environments on the planet with an array of complex challenges that regularly test their ability to innovate, plan, and execute strategic objectives.

This blog post is part of a series on Cloudera’s Operational Database (OpDB) in CDP. Each post goes into more details about new features and capabilities. Start from the beginning of the series with, Operational Database in CDP. This blog post gives you an overview of the NoSQL, component integration, and object store support capabilities of OpDB.

Here at Lenses.io, we’re focused on making data technologies such as Apache Kafka and Kubernetes as accessible to every organization as possible. It’s part of our DataOps vision and company DNA. Lenses is built by developers, for developers. We understand the headaches they live with and the challenges they face seemingly have to learn a new data technology every few months. We believe that’s just not the right model.

Editor’s note: Today we’re hearing from some of the team members involved in building BigQuery over the past decade, and even before. Our thanks go to Jeremy Condit, Dan Delorey, Sudhir Hasbe, Felipe Hoffa, Chad Jennings, Jing Jing Long, Mosha Pasumansky, Tino Tereshko, and William Vambenepe, and Alicia Williams. This month, Google’s cloud data warehouse BigQuery turns 10.