Written by Uday Srinivasan, CTO, Acante.The way businesses analyze, transform and share data has radically changed over the past few years. We are in the post-Hadoop era with the Apache Software Foundation retiring over 10 Hadoop-related projects over the last three years. The shift of enterprise data to the cloud, demands of rapid online analysis, a trend towards decoupling storage and compute, acceleration in data growth and, not the least, demands of AI/ML applications have created new dem...