New tools and technologies are becoming established in enterprises, helping organizations extract more value from data. In a recent BDQ article, industry experts weighed in on the trends that loom large in the future and those that appear to be waning. Hadoop is still an important foundational technology that many customers are using within their data lake with Apache Spark, stated Mike Lehmann, VP of product management, Oracle. However, he added, “Oracle is seeing a transition happening where there is less of a dependence on the core Hadoop ecosystem and more focus on putting data directly into cloud object storage, doing data processing and manipulation using Apache Spark, real-time interactive queries directly against the data lake, and the overall infrastructure running on cloud-native foundations such as Kubernetes.”