Another week of stand out big data updates.  The first one comes from a European firm named Compuverde, which unveiled new software that makes analytics more viable for enterprises.

Organizations want the level of control and security that an on-premise deployment has to offer, but IT departments are having a harder time when it comes to staying efficient. Compuverde says that the latest additions to its portfolio let enterprises make use of cheaper, commodity servers in their analytics environments while also reducing overhead associated with backup.

We’ve also seen some interesting news coming from Hadoop, or rather from the file system’s newest rival. Dremel is an analytics platform conceived by Google that has received a lot of praise from none other than Cloudera CEO Mile Olson, thanks to a new approach that combines all the advantages of traditional SQL to ‘internet-scale’ datasets.

NoSQL is another vertical that has seen a sudden increase in competition this week. Accumulo is a database solution that was originally created by the NSA, and recently emerged as a very viable solution for enterprise usage.  Accumulo’s use of cell-level security is one of the biggest appeals – a technology that shares a lot with what one recently funded startup is working on.

Cell-level security enables an enterprise to control who can access what all the way down to the cell level further into the stack. Sqrrl, a team of former NSA cybersecurity experts, raised $2 million for an upcoming solution that will take this concept to the next level by enabling admins to only encrypt the sensitive information in a specific a file or document.

Also this week, social media analytics-powered restaurant search provider Ness received $15 million in a Series B round.