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BigDATAwire - Data Science • AI • Advanced Analytics
Enterprises increasingly seek to reduce data-layer complexity by enabling direct querying across streaming, transactional, and analytical systems. Major vendors (Confluent, Google Cloud, EDB) announce features and acquisitions to unify data access (e.g., Kafka with Iceberg, PostgreSQL with ClickHouse) and improve data sovereignty, potentially reducing pipelines and data copies while raising concerns about vendor lock-in and partial readiness.