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Using Microsoft’s Data API builder for Azure databases

Microsoft’s declarative REST and GraphQL API design tool supports MySQL and Postgres as well as Azure databases and works anywhere you can run a Docker container.

By Simon Bisson

Oct 2, 20258 mins

APIsDatabasesMicrosoft Azure

The best new features in Postgres 18

Sep 25, 20256 mins

DatabasesPostgreSQLRelational Databases

Do vector-native databases beat add-ons for AI applications?

By Bill Doerrfeld

Sep 22, 202510 mins

AnalyticsDatabasesGenerative AI

MongoDB adds vector search to self-managed editions to power generative AI apps

By Anirban Ghoshal

Sep 17, 20253 mins

DatabasesNoSQL Databases

MongoDB launches a new application modernization platform

By Anirban Ghoshal

Sep 16, 20254 mins

More hardware won’t fix bad engineering

Sep 15, 20256 mins

DeveloperEngineerTechnology Industry

Unlocking LLM superpowers: How PagedAttention helps the memory maze

Sep 11, 20255 mins

Artificial IntelligenceDatabasesGenerative AI

13 reasons SQL has got to go

By Peter Wayner

Sep 8, 202512 mins

Data ManagementDatabasesSQL

PostgreSQL 18 to boost OLTP performance, but misses AI readiness

By Anirban Ghoshal

Sep 5, 20255 mins

Artificial IntelligencePostgreSQL

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Neo4j unveils Infinigraph to merge OLTP and OLAP for Agentic AI

The new distributed graph architecture promises unified transactional and analytical processing, enabling enterprises to scale real-time decision-making for autonomous workflows.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Sep 4, 2025 3 mins

DatabasesGraph Databases

Why DocumentDB can be a win for MongoDB

If the company can embrace influence rather than control, it has the opportunity to help define the open document standard, which will encourage even more growth in the category.

Sep 1, 2025 8 mins

Document DatabasesNoSQL DatabasesPostgreSQL

Using Cosmos DB in Microsoft Fabric

Microsoft’s flagship cloud-native database is now ready for analysis at scale, ideal for enterprise AI applications.

By Simon Bisson

Aug 28, 2025 7 mins

Big DataCloud-NativeDatabases

MariaDB buys back the company it sold two years ago

Acquires SkySQL, returning its DBaaS platform to the product portfolio.

Aug 26, 2025 4 mins

DatabasesOpen Source

Google Spanner gets a columnar engine to unite OLTP and OLAP workloads

The preview feature aims to simplify real-time analytics on transactional data, reducing ETL complexity and boosting performance.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Aug 6, 2025 3 mins

AnalyticsDatabases

How agentic AI will change database management

Databases will soon be capable of monitoring their own health, identifying bottlenecks, adjusting configurations, and even rerouting traffic in real time.

By Bennie Grant

Jul 28, 2025 7 mins

Database AdministrationDatabasesGenerative AI

The importance of memory for AI

The humble database offers the key to giving AI context and adaptation, accessing data beyond its training cutoff.

Jul 28, 2025 9 mins

Artificial IntelligenceDatabasesGenerative AI

Oracle launches MCP server to power context-aware AI agents for enterprise data

With native support for Oracle Databases, the MCP server will allow developers to build AI agents that can autonomously query, reason, and generate insights without custom integration layers.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jul 18, 2025 4 mins

Artificial IntelligenceDatabases

Qdrant Cloud adds service for generating text and image embeddings

Qdrant Cloud Inference simplifies building applications with multimodal search, retrieval-augmented generation, and hybrid search, Qdrant said.

Jul 16, 2025 2 mins

Artificial IntelligenceDatabasesGenerative AI

AWS looks to cut storage costs for LLM embeddings with Amazon S3 Vectors

AWS says you can do without specialty vector databases for generative AI and agentic AI applications.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jul 16, 2025 3 mins

Cloud StorageDatabasesGenerative AI

Database design tips for developers

Good software habits apply to databases too. Trust in these little design tips to build a useful, rot-resistant database schema.

Jul 16, 2025 12 mins

CareersDatabasesDeveloper

Oracle Database@AWS goes GA: Exadata and Autonomous DB now live in the US

The service, currently available in two US regions, is expected to be expanded into 20 additional regions in the next 12-18 months.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jul 9, 2025 4 mins

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Oct 3, 20256 mins

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What is an internal developer platform? IDP explained

By Josh Fruhlinger and Scott Carey

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By Matthew Tyson

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Getting encryption wrong (and getting it right, too)

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