In this week’s real-time analytics news: AWS announced the open source release of Spark History Server MCP, an MCP server that enables AI assistants to access and analyze an organization’s existing Spark History Server data through natural language interactions.
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AWS announced the open source release of Spark History Server MCP, a specialized Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that enables AI assistants to access and analyze an organization’s existing Spark History Server data through natural language interactions. This project, developed collaboratively by AWS open source and Amazon SageMaker Data Processing, turns complex debugging sessions into conversational interactions that deliver faster, more accurate insights without requiring changes to your current Spark infrastructure. Organizations can use this MCP server with their self-managed or AWS-managed Spark History Servers to analyze Spark applications running in the cloud or on-premises deployments.
Orbit Analytics announced the release of AI-powered Websheets, a new enterprise spreadsheet interface that delivers real-time, cloud-native data directly within a familiar format. Websheets combines the comfort of Excel with the governance, performance, and collaboration enterprises require. To that point, unlike traditional spreadsheets, which operate as static files, Websheets connects directly to live data sources via secure APIs, enabling real-time updates, multi-user collaboration, and governed access based on user roles.
Real-time analytics news in brief
Avaya announced that the Avaya Infinity platform will support Model Context Protocol (MCP) later this year. As part of this initiative, Avaya is partnering with Databricks to deliver enterprise-grade data security and governance at scale. With this announcement, Avaya customers will have even more choice and flexibility in how they use AI and data to create enduring connections.
Cribl announced FinOps Center, a new capability in Cribl.Cloud that brings enterprises a clear, unified view of how data flows through their systems, what it costs, and, most importantly, what it’s worth. FinOps Center is built to help teams shift from simply tracking telemetry data usage to understanding the business impact behind every data decision. Available today in Cribl.Cloud, FinOps Center gives administrators the ability to control spend without sacrificing operational performance.
Gathr.ai announced the latest addition to its product suite — Data Warehouse Intelligence. Users can now converse with their data warehouse in natural language and unlock higher-quality intelligence powered by complete data context. Data Warehouse Intelligence, by Gathr.ai, runs natively on top of leading data warehouses, databases, and federated SQL engines. It supports Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, MS SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Trino, and Starburst, with support for Oracle and BigQuery coming soon.
Kaseya launched an AI workflow generator within its VSA 10 platform. Using generative AI, technicians can describe a desired outcome in simple language, and Cooper Copilot builds the entire automation workflow, with no specialized product knowledge or previous scripting experience required. That allows technicians to quickly automate repetitive tasks, deploy software, complete maintenance, and security remediations.
OpenText announced the launch of its Cloud Editions (CE) 25.3. CE 25.3 brings together the strength of OpenText Business AI, Business Clouds, and Business Technology. Additionally, this release introduces a new generation of AI-powered assistants, developer productivity tools, cloud-native platforms, and cybersecurity enhancements—all purpose-built to unlock the full value of enterprise information.
StarTree announced support for Apache Iceberg in StarTree Cloud, enabling it to serve as both the analytic and serving layer on top of Iceberg, delivering interactive insights to internal and external applications directly from the data lakehouse. With this launch, StarTree transforms Iceberg from a passive storage format into a real-time backend capable of powering customer-facing applications and AI agents.
Yugabyte announced new vector search, PostgreSQL, and multi-modal functionality to meet the growing needs of AI developers, all in one distributed database. New capabilities in the release include YugabyteDB MCP Server for seamless AI-powered experiences in applications; support for LangChain, OLLama, LlamaIndex, AWS Bedrock, and Google Vertex AI; multi-modal API support with the addition of MongoDB API support for scaling MongoDB workloads in addition to PostgreSQL (YSQL) and Cassandra (YCQL); and more.
Partnerships, collaborations, and more
Commvault announced the general availability of Clumio Backtrack for Amazon DynamoDB. The solution allows teams to near instantly revert existing DynamoDB tables to a prior point in time with no reconfiguration necessary. Organizations can also recover individual partitions versus entire tables, cutting both recovery times and recovery costs.
KX announced its acquisition by TA Associates (“TA”). The acquisition enables KX to operate with greater agility and long-term focus. Under the agreement, TA has acquired a majority stake in FD Technologies, KX’s parent company, with existing shareholders retaining a minority interest.
ScyllaDB Cloud is now available with the BYOA (Bring Your Own (Cloud) Account) model on Google Cloud. (This is in addition to the fully-managed and self-hosted options previously available on Google Cloud Marketplace.) With BYOA, Google Cloud customers can leverage ScyllaDB Cloud’s price-performance while maintaining full ownership and control of their data within their GCP Account, Project, and VPC.
StackAdapt announced the availability of its first Snowflake Native App, powered by Snowflake Cortex AI, on Snowflake Marketplace. The first demand-side platform to launch a Snowflake Cortex-powered Snowflake Native App within the Snowflake ecosystem enables users to turn complex data preparation into a streamlined workflow.
TileDB and Databricks announced a strategic partnership that eliminates data silos, preventing healthcare and life sciences organizations from fully leveraging AI-driven drug discovery and clinical insights. The partnership addresses the challenge of integrating complex scientific data that TileDB supports, including multiomics, medical imaging, and clinical records, with the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform and Databricks’ analytics workflows.
Vertesia announced the availability of its unified, low-code GenAI platform in the new AI Agents and Tools storefront in AWS Marketplace. The AI Agents and Tools storefront in AWS Marketplace serves as a centralized catalog for hundreds of AI solutions from trusted AWS Partners. Additionally, this enables AWS customers to easily discover, buy, and deploy Vertesia’s platform using their AWS accounts.
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