Google Cloud Summit came to London last week, and we took the opportunity to sit down with database execs Sailesh ...

The coolest database system companies of the 2026 Big Data 100 include ClickHouse, Couchbase, EDB, MariaDB, MongoDB, Neo4j, Pinecone and Yugabyte.

I've been thinking a lot lately about what it actually takes to make an AI agent genuinely useful for database work, both for administration and for application access to the data tier. Writing the ...

Abstract: Domain-specific architecture has greatly improved performance and energy efficiency in in-memory databases, especially for accelerating single-functional computing logic in analytic query ...

Data teams building AI agents keep running into the same failure mode. Questions that require joining structured data with unstructured content, sales figures alongside customer reviews or citation ...

Explore how SQL Server 2025 reshapes the modern data platform with AI-ready capabilities, developer-first enhancements, hybrid modernisation and practical upgrade readiness guidance. For many years, ...

This is going to sound strange, but one of the things I like about tuning Power BI DirectQuery semantic models is that their generally-slower performance and the fact you can see the SQL queries that ...

Abstract: MapReduce is a widely-used programming model in cloud environment for parallel processing large-scale data sets. The combination of the high-level language with a SQL-to-MapReduce translator ...

Recently, for a project, I wrote an SQL query (in Databricks) where I had to calculate more than 17 metrics. I implemented the metric calculations using Common Table Expressions (CTE) - one for each ...

Asynchronous I/O, OAuth authentication, expanded SQL standards support, and new extension capabilities give developers faster performance, stronger security, and greater flexibility. The PostgreSQL ...

Microsoft has released the first release candidate for SQL Server 2025, touting AI capabilities and experimental features through PREVIEW_FEATURES. A private preview of SQL Server 2025 began in ...

Snowflake has thousands of enterprise customers who use the company's data and AI technologies. Though many issues with generative AI are solved, there is still lots of room for improvement. Two such ...