Data Management

IBM to buy Confluent to extend its data and automation portfolio

The deal is described by IBM as a ‘natural fit’ for its hybrid cloud and AI strategy.

By Paul Barker

Dec 8, 20256 mins

Artificial IntelligenceData IntegrationHybrid Cloud

Articles

Microsoft touts scalability of its new PostgreSQL-compatible managed database

Third time’s the charm? Microsoft hopes the scalability of Azure HorizonDB, will lure new customers where its two existing PostgreSQL databases did not.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Nov 19, 2025 4 mins

Microsoft AzurePostgreSQLRelational Databases

Building a scalable document management system: Lessons from separating metadata and content

Split your metadata from your files, and suddenly your sluggish document system becomes fast, scalable and surprisingly cheap to run.

By Prasanna Kumar Ramachandran

Nov 19, 2025 10 mins

DatabasesDocument DatabasesNoSQL Databases

Why context engineering will define the next era of enterprise AI

Agentic AI systems need a deep understanding of where they are, what they know, and the constraints that apply. Context engineering provides the foundation.

By Saket Saurabh

Nov 18, 2025 7 mins

Artificial IntelligenceData GovernanceGenerative AI

Databricks fires back at Snowflake with SQL-based AI document parsing

The new capability supports tables, figures, and diagrams with spatial metadata, making documents searchable and actionable in AI workflows.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Nov 13, 2025 6 mins

Artificial IntelligenceData ManagementSQL

Unlocking data’s true potential: The open lakehouse as AI’s foundation

Artificial intelligence has increased the urgency for unified data. Here’s how to achieve it.

By Geeta Banda, Head of Outbound Product Management, Google Cloud

May 29, 2025 5 mins

Artificial IntelligenceData Management

The dawn of the AI-native database

With agentic AI, the database must evolve from a passive ledger to an active reasoning engine that informs, guides, and enables autonomous action.

By Yasmeen Ahmad

Nov 11, 2025 9 mins

Artificial IntelligenceDatabasesGenerative AI

AI is all about inference now

You train the model once, but you run it every day. Making sure your model has business context and guardrails to guarantee reliability is more valuable than fussing over LLMs.

By Matt Asay

Nov 10, 2025 8 mins

Data GovernanceGenerative AITechnology Industry

Google’s new query builder to tackle SQL complexity in cloud workload monitoring

Google’s new tool abstracts SQL into a visual interface, helping enterprises manage cloud workload insights without deep technical expertise.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Nov 4, 2025 4 mins

DeveloperSQL

Boring governance is the path to real AI adoption

The shiniest new technology rarely wins unless it can inherit the boring controls enterprises already trust. This is the paradox of enterprise innovation.

By Matt Asay

Nov 3, 2025 6 mins

Data GovernanceGenerative AITechnology Industry

Was data mesh just a fad?

The data mesh architecture promised to eliminate the inefficiencies and errors of the data lake. What went wrong?

By Nidhin Ponon

Nov 3, 2025 6 mins

AnalyticsBig DataData Architecture

Google adds tiered storage to NoSQL Bigtable to reduce complexity, costs

Tiered storage will help enterprises reduce their storage expenditure as they continue to adopt AI use cases for various tasks, analysts say.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Oct 30, 2025 3 mins

DatabasesNoSQL Databases

Maximizing speed: How continuous batching unlocks unprecedented LLM throughput

Think of continuous batching as the LLM world’s turbocharger — keeping GPUs busy nonstop and cranking out results up to 20x faster.

By Raul Leite

Oct 27, 2025 6 mins

Artificial IntelligenceDatabasesGenerative AI

AWS DNS error hits DynamoDB, causing problems for multiple services and customers

DynamoDB error rates in the US-EAST-1 region soared shortly after midnight Pacific Time, rippling through other AWS services and affecting many customers.

By Peter Sayer

Oct 20, 2025 3 mins

Amazon Web ServicesDatabasesIaaS