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Diskless databases: What happens when storage isn’t the bottleneck

When you eliminate the dependency on local storage, the database becomes an active, real-time engine, not just a place to store data.

May 5, 2026 5 mins

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SAP to acquire data lakehouse vendor Dremio

Two existing SAP partners, Snowflake and Databricks, offer similar services, but there are key differences in Dremio's offerings that may speak to enterprise IT AI fears.

May 4, 2026 9 mins

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Making AI work for databases

The gap between human and AI performance on database tasks will shrink over time, but more complex problems will still require human expertise and control.

Apr 30, 2026 6 mins

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Oracle delivers semantic search without LLMs

Trusted Answer Search is a new offering from Oracle that prioritizes control, auditability, and predictable outcomes over generative flexibility, saving on compute but adding to data curation and governance costs.

Apr 17, 2026 4 mins

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Google Cloud introduces QueryData to help AI agents create reliable database queries

However, analysts say that its deterministic, controls-based features add complexity to upfront design.

Apr 13, 2026 4 mins

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Bringing databases and Kubernetes together

OpenEverest is an open-source platform for automating the provisioning and management of any database on any Kubernetes infrastructure.

Apr 9, 2026 5 mins

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Databricks launches AiChemy multi-agent AI for drug discovery

The reference architecture connects enterprise and public scientific data to accelerate target identification and compound evaluation.

Apr 6, 2026 3 mins

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How Apache Kafka flexed to support queues

The latest release of Apache Kafka delivers the queue-like consumption semantics of point-to-point messaging. Here’s the how, what, and why.

Mar 31, 2026 8 mins

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Oracle adds pre-built agents to Private Agent Factory in AI Database 26ai

The pre-built agents and Private Agent Factory itself would help developers accelerate agent building, especially those working for enterprises in regulated industries, analysts say.

Mar 25, 2026 3 mins

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An architecture for engineering AI context

The challenge is not how much context an AI system can hold at once, but how intelligently it can decide what context matters for any given action.

Mar 24, 2026 10 mins

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