Data Management
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News
06 Oct 2026
New Precisely capabilities address common AI development hurdles
The vendor's AI Studio and unified data management suite are designed to simplify development on top of a trusted data foundation Continue Reading
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05 Oct 2026
Governance teams now emphasize data, AI enablement
In some organizations, data governance programs are now focusing more on enabling employees and AI systems to use data effectively than on controlling its use. Continue Reading
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08 Jan 2026
Snowflake storms into IT monitoring with Observe acquisition
Historically focused on data management and AI development, the vendor is adding infrastructure observability capabilities in a move that could differentiate it from competitors. Continue Reading
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08 Jan 2026
New Databricks tool aims to up agentic AI response accuracy
With enterprises struggling to successfully develop agents using traditional RAG pipelines, the vendor's new Instructed Retriever offers an alternative. Continue Reading
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07 Jan 2026
Snowflake boosts Google partnership, integrates Gemini 3
By making the tech giant's LLM natively available in Cortex AI, the data cloud vendor is adding yet another significant tool to its evolving development suite. Continue Reading
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Opinion
05 Jan 2026
2026 will be the year data becomes truly intelligent
As AI moves into production, enterprises are redefining data management around shared meaning, operational trust and system coherence rather than standalone capabilities. Continue Reading
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Feature
29 Dec 2025
4 trends that will shape data management and AI in 2026
The tendencies that influence the next 12 months build on what began last year, including rising mergers and acquisitions and the need to simplify developing and deploying agents. Continue Reading
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Tip
23 Dec 2025
Data architecture vs. information architecture: How they differ
Data architecture and information architecture are distinct but related disciplines that work in tandem to support an enterprise's data and business strategies. Continue Reading
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Tip
23 Dec 2025
How AI changes data governance roles and responsibilities
Data governance is a team effort, though recent AI developments have caused data and AI teams to converge. As a result, organizations have created new roles in these teams. Continue Reading
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22 Dec 2025
4 trends that shaped data management, analytics in 2025
With each relating to agentic AI development, tendencies included nearly universal support for MCP and rising emphasis on semantic modeling, among others. Continue Reading
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19 Dec 2025
10 essential roles for a data management team in 2026
These 10 essential data management roles help leaders design teams that support governance, scale and trusted analytics across modern enterprise data environments. Continue Reading
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16 Dec 2025
Databricks adds $4B funding round; IPO could be next
With a valuation well over $100 billion and strong revenue growth from both data management and AI, the vendor could be preparing to go public. Continue Reading
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Feature
16 Dec 2025
Different types of database management systems explained
The various types of database software come with advantages, limitations and optimal uses that prospective buyers should be aware of before choosing a DBMS. Continue Reading
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16 Dec 2025
How to build a data catalog: 10 key steps
A data catalog helps business and analytics users explore data assets, find relevant data and understand what it means. Here are 10 important steps for building one. Continue Reading
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16 Dec 2025
EnterpriseDB updates WarehousePG with features that fuel AI
The PostgreSQL database specialist's data warehouse update targets AI development by adding predictable pricing, real-time data processing and improved governance capabilities. Continue Reading
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10 Dec 2025
Couchbase adds agentic AI development suite to Capella DBaaS
AI Services, which includes an integration with Nvidia and governance capabilities -- among other features -- represents the vendor's growth beyond its database roots. Continue Reading
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08 Dec 2025
IBM acquiring Confluent to boost AI development capabilities
The purchase of a streaming data platform complements the tech giant's existing tools by enabling developers to build agents using real-time information. Continue Reading
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04 Dec 2025
Snowflake, Anthropic boost partnership with $200M commitment
After first partnering in 2024 to make Claude models available in Cortex AI, the companies plan to collaborate on agentic AI development and marketing strategies. Continue Reading
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03 Dec 2025
Informatica tightens bond with AWS's AI development tools
New features optimized for joint customers include MCP servers to connect governed data with foundation models and a framework for developing agents on the tech giant's platform. Continue Reading
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02 Dec 2025
Latest AWS data management features target cost control
As the volume and complexity of enterprise data estates increase, and the size of data workloads grows due to AI development, the tech giant aims to help users reduce spending. Continue Reading
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Feature
25 Nov 2025
One year of MCP: Support a must for data management vendors
With most AI development initiatives focused on agentic AI, failure to provide the framework for easily connecting agents with relevant data is now a competitive disadvantage. Continue Reading
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Feature
24 Nov 2025
Microsoft helps Premier League fuel fan experience with AI
A new app built by England's top soccer division using the tech giant's data management and development capabilities draws on decades of data to deliver personalized insights. Continue Reading
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19 Nov 2025
Precisely intros AI capabilities to simplify data quality
The data integrity specialist's new features, including a conversational interface and a fabric for connecting governed assets, address the growing emphasis on high-quality data. Continue Reading
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19 Nov 2025
Snowflake integrates with Nvidia to speed AI/ML workloads
Adding data science libraries featuring GPUs to the vendor's development suite aims to exponentially improve the performance of application workloads. Continue Reading
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18 Nov 2025
New Microsoft tools connect AI agents with proper data
Semantic modeling to unite enterprise data and automated pipeline capabilities to feed applications with relevant information aim to give autonomous tools appropriate context. Continue Reading
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13 Nov 2025
Alation unveils agentic AI suite for governing critical data
CDE Manager includes agents that set standards and establish rules to help enterprises to connect data to key operations and govern such data to ensure it can be trusted. Continue Reading
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13 Nov 2025
Dremio Cloud: An autonomous lakehouse powered by AI agents
The new platform automates complex data preparation and pipeline management tasks that fuel AI development and could be a differentiator for the vendor. Continue Reading
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06 Nov 2025
Ataccama automates data quality with agentic AI-fueled suite
The new version of the vendor's platform automates tasks previously performed by humans to substantially reduce the time it takes to ensure that data can be trusted. Continue Reading
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04 Nov 2025
Snowflake delivers slew of AI tools, introduces new ones
The newly released tools simplify access to enterprise data and enable deeper analysis through natural language to address challenges in AI development and data utilization. Continue Reading
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03 Nov 2025
New Databricks tools target successful agentic AI development
With enterprises struggling to build agents, new Agent Bricks features address accuracy and governance to help move development projects from pilot to production. Continue Reading
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Definition
31 Oct 2025
What is customer data integration (CDI)?
Customer data integration (CDI) is the process of defining, consolidating and managing customer information across an organization's business units and systems to achieve a "single version of the truth" for customer data. Continue Reading
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Opinion
30 Oct 2025
Why data semantics matters for context-aware systems
Data semantics organizes context, relationships and logic across enterprise data to create systems that understand how information connects and informs decision-making. Continue Reading
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News
29 Oct 2025
Streaming specialist Confluent unveils AI development suite
In addition to a unified environment for building and deploying agents, the vendor launched a private cloud version of its platform and integrations that simplify data preparation. Continue Reading
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29 Oct 2025
Informatica launches agents, adds new AI development tools
Prebuilt agents for data quality and other data management tasks and a development framework featuring MCP support highlight the vendor's Fall 2025 platform update. Continue Reading
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28 Oct 2025
Streaming vendor Redpanda buys SQL engine, unveils AI suite
With the Agent Data Plane, which features newly acquired SQL database capabilities, the specialist is expanding beyond its roots and adding tools to train and govern AI agents. Continue Reading
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Tip
23 Oct 2025
How AI governance manages risk at scale for enterprises
Effective oversight of AI systems requires more than technology. It relies on defined roles, coordinated risk protocols and tight collaboration across data and model teams. Continue Reading
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Definition
22 Oct 2025
What is data analytics (DA)?
Data analytics (DA) is the process of examining data sets to find trends and draw conclusions about the information they contain. Continue Reading
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News
21 Oct 2025
Immuta adds provisioning prowess to speed insight generation
Featuring automation capabilities, the new tools dramatically reduce the time it takes to operationalize governed data and could help differentiate the vendor from its peers. Continue Reading
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21 Oct 2025
Couchbase ups database vector search, indexing capabilities
The vendor's update takes a three-pronged approach to storing and searching vectorized data to make building AI tools trained on massive amounts of relevant information faster. Continue Reading
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16 Oct 2025
Snowflake, Palantir team to simplify AI, insight generation
Native integration between the vendors' platforms aims to simplify and speed development of AI and analytics tools for current joint customers -- and to attract new ones. Continue Reading
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Tip
15 Oct 2025
6 essential data engineer skills for modern data environments
As AI automates more tasks handled by data engineers, the role is shifting from pipeline building to strategic skills that keep modern architectures adaptable. Continue Reading
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Tip
15 Oct 2025
10 data governance challenges that can sink data operations
No organization can successfully use data without data governance. Address 10 data governance challenges to avoid financial loss, derailed operations and reputation damage. Continue Reading
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Opinion
15 Oct 2025
Data contracts help build trustworthy data products for AI
Data contracts establish clear expectations between data producers and consumers, turning governance into a continuous, automated process that builds trust for AI. Continue Reading
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14 Oct 2025
Oracle launches new platform to streamline AI development
The suite, which combines capabilities from OCI and other platforms, will help Oracle compete with rivals providing similar feature sets for building agents and other AI tools. Continue Reading
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14 Oct 2025
DBT Labs targets costs with data engine, adds AI agents
The new capabilities, revealed amid news that the vendor is merging with Fivetran, include an updated engine that lowers data transformation expenses and task-specific agents. Continue Reading
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Definition
14 Oct 2025
What is an entity relationship diagram (ERD)?
An entity relationship diagram (ERD), also known as an entity relationship model, is a graphical representation that depicts relationships among people, objects, places, concepts or events in an information technology (IT) system. Continue Reading
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13 Oct 2025
Fivetran, DBT Labs merge to add complementary capabilities
The deal brings together data movement and data transformation platforms that help developers build AI and analytics applications. Continue Reading
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09 Oct 2025
Starburst's latest targets agentic AI development
The data lakehouse vendor continues to expand beyond its roots in data mesh, adding features such as an MCP server and access to vector stores that enable users to build agents. Continue Reading
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07 Oct 2025
New AI-powered suite boosts Teradata's CX capabilities
Autonomous Customer Intelligence features agents and other tools aimed at enabling the vendor's users to gain greater insight into their own customers to improve business outcomes. Continue Reading
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Definition
07 Oct 2025
What is data as a service (DaaS)?
Data as a service (DaaS) is an information provision and distribution model in which data files -- including text, images, sounds and videos -- are made available to customers over a network, typically the internet. Continue Reading
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01 Oct 2025
Mooncake acquisition boosts Databricks database capabilities
Five months after purchasing PostgreSQL specialist Neon and turning its tech into Lakebase, the data platform vendor is adding new database capabilities to aid AI development. Continue Reading
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01 Oct 2025
Databricks boosts data security with AI-powered suite
With cyberattacks becoming more sophisticated, the vendor's new set of features includes agents, AI-powered dashboards and integrations with specialists. Continue Reading
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News
01 Oct 2025
Development suite continues Alation's foray into agentic AI
Once a metadata management specialist, the vendor is keeping up with the competition by adding an environment for developing agents. Continue Reading
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Opinion
30 Sep 2025
Data intelligence isn't just a buzzword
Data intelligence is more than a trend. It represents the future of how organizations will operate by connecting structured and unstructured data for smarter decisions. Continue Reading
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Feature
29 Sep 2025
Snowflake's AI capabilities fueling music data specialist
Luminate, which provides the data for Billboard's music charts and informs other entertainment industry clients, is developing agents using the data platform vendor's tools. Continue Reading
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25 Sep 2025
Databricks partners with OpenAI to boost AI development
GPT-5 is now the primary model for the data platform vendor's users. In addition, the partners will collaborate to improve model performance for real-world applications. Continue Reading
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23 Sep 2025
New consortium to aid AI by standardizing semantic modeling
An open standard for defining data would simplify data integration and discovery to reduce one of the barriers preventing organizations from successfully developing AI tools. Continue Reading
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Tip
23 Sep 2025
5 knowledge graph use cases in data fabric architecture
Knowledge graphs in data fabrics enable semantic layers, cross-domain modeling, operational intelligence, enterprise search and intelligent metadata management. Continue Reading
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23 Sep 2025
Teradata unveils AgentBuilder to aid agentic AI development
Like many of its competitors, the longtime data management and analytics vendor is adding tools, such as an MCP server, to help customers build advanced applications. Continue Reading
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Tip
23 Sep 2025
What is data lineage? Techniques, best practices and tools
Organizations can strengthen data governance by mapping data lineage across systems. Learn how tools help to simplify tracking, compliance and lifecycle visibility. Continue Reading
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Opinion
22 Sep 2025
Cisco and Splunk are teaching AI to anticipate system failures
Cisco and Splunk use machine data to train a new time-series foundation model that surfaces hidden issues and creates a durable competitive edge. Continue Reading
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18 Sep 2025
Vector database vendor Pinecone eyes future under new CEO
After establishing the value of its technology under founder Edo Liberty, Ash Ashutosh takes over to lead the vendor as it enters a phase focused on growing the business. Continue Reading
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17 Sep 2025
MongoDB adds MCP server, expands AI development capabilities
While the database vendor isn't breaking new ground with its updated features, they combine to provide customers with valuable tools that will help to build modern applications. Continue Reading
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16 Sep 2025
Microsoft adds new AI development, OneLake tools to Fabric
New features such as MCP support and simplified access to data stored across multiple clouds simplify developing agents and keep the tech giant's platform competitive. Continue Reading
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Definition
16 Sep 2025
What is data stewardship?
Data stewardship is the management and oversight of an organization's data assets, which helps provide business users with high-quality, easily accessible and consistent data. Continue Reading
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10 Sep 2025
SingleStore agrees to growth buyout by private equity firm
The database specialist's management team will remain, with the investment from Vector Capital Management potentially enabling growth beyond what was previously possible. Continue Reading
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Definition
10 Sep 2025
What is a pivot table? How to use in Excel and Sheets
A pivot table is a statistics tool that summarizes and reorganizes selected columns and rows of data in a spreadsheet or database table to obtain a desired report. Continue Reading
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Opinion
10 Sep 2025
The race to build the ultimate data platform
Unified data platforms are driven by AI demands and efficiency goals to replace fragmented tools and enhance governance across enterprises. Continue Reading
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News
09 Sep 2025
Monte Carlo's Agent Observability targets reliability of AI
The vendor's new feature enables users to define acceptable AI outputs and trace outputs that don't meet organizational standards back to source data so they can be addressed. Continue Reading
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05 Sep 2025
Fivetran's Tobiko Data acquisition aids data transformation
The purchase provides the data integration vendor with its own data transformation framework to augment capabilities it provides through integrations with third-party specialists. Continue Reading
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04 Sep 2025
Neo4j's latest targets graph database performance at scale
Infinigraph enables the vendor's platform to handle the scale of hybrid transactional/analytical processing workloads used to help inform AI and analytics applications. Continue Reading
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Definition
22 Aug 2025
What is Microsoft SSIS (SQL Server Integration Services)?
Microsoft Structured Query Language (SQL) Server Integration Services (SSIS) is an enterprise platform for setting up data integrations and data transformations. Continue Reading
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Tip
22 Aug 2025
ESG data collection: Guide and best practices
Sustainability initiatives won't succeed without quality data. Following an ESG data collection framework and best practices ensures program and reporting success. Continue Reading
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21 Aug 2025
Latest from Vast Data aims to simplify, speed AI development
SyncEngine has the potential to be a differentiator for the vendor, combining capabilities usually performed by specialized tools to provide pipelines with relevant information. Continue Reading
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Opinion
20 Aug 2025
How AI-powered governance enables scalable AI deployment
AI-powered governance tools help organizations move AI from trials to production by automating compliance, mitigating risks and safeguarding brand reputation. Continue Reading
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News
19 Aug 2025
Alation unveils agentic AI-powered query capabilities
By accessing a knowledge layer consisting of curated data products and metadata, Chat with Your Data provides more accurate responses than the vendor's previous capabilities. Continue Reading
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19 Aug 2025
Confluent joins agentic AI fray with Streaming Agents
The vendor's new environment for developing agents includes tool calling via model context protocol and connections with key sources such as LLMs and vector databases. Continue Reading
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News
15 Aug 2025
Modern architecture, high-quality data key to AI development
An expert explains how components such as a shared foundation and protocols that ensure quality help foster real-time insights and AI-driven analysis. Continue Reading
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Definition
13 Aug 2025
What is data quality and why is it important?
Data quality measures a data set's condition based on factors such as accuracy, completeness, consistency, timeliness, uniqueness and validity. Continue Reading
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News
13 Aug 2025
MongoDB launches enterprise-focused AI models
The vendor's new models enhance document context capture and enable developers to guide the reranking process with instructions, while improving accuracy. Continue Reading
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Tip
12 Aug 2025
Top data quality management tools in 2025
Data quality management tools provide profiling, cleansing and monitoring features that keep enterprise data accurate and consistent across analytics and governance efforts. Continue Reading
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News
12 Aug 2025
Aerospike update aims to improve database performance
With the addition of expression indexes that enable users to streamline the data discovery process, the vendor is providing capabilities that could force competitors to respond. Continue Reading
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Opinion
11 Aug 2025
Is Apache Iceberg worth a full migration?
Apache Iceberg delivers modern data lake features, but adoption depends on existing architecture, team resources and tolerance for migration complexity. Continue Reading
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Feature
06 Aug 2025
Hadoop vs. Spark for modern data pipelines
Hadoop and Spark differ in architecture, performance, scalability, cost and deployment. They offer distinct strengths for modern cloud-native data pipelines. Continue Reading
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Definition
05 Aug 2025
What is data automation?
Data automation is the use of software tools and infrastructure to streamline data management tasks. Data automation techniques intentionally limit human interaction with data-related jobs. Continue Reading
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News
31 Jul 2025
Informatica adds MCP support, spate of AI-fueled features
With Model Context Protocol helping standardize how enterprises develop and deploy agents, support for the open standard is valuable for customers building advanced applications. Continue Reading
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Definition
30 Jul 2025
What is PL/SQL (Procedural Language/Structured Query Language)?
In Oracle database management, PL/SQL is a procedural language extension to Structured Query Language (SQL). Continue Reading
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24 Jul 2025
Collibra's acquisition of Deasy targets unstructured data
With AI development on the rise, the vendor's latest purchase better enables customers to combine the complete array of relevant data to inform advanced applications. Continue Reading
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23 Jul 2025
StarTree adding Iceberg support to simplify, speed analysis
With open table data storage formats gaining popularity, the vendor's pending support for Apache Iceberg promotes flexibility while also making analysis more efficient. Continue Reading
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23 Jul 2025
StarTree adding Iceberg support to simplify, speed analysis
With open table data storage formats gaining popularity, the vendor's pending support for Apache Iceberg promotes flexibility while also making analysis more efficient. Continue Reading
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Definition
22 Jul 2025
What is a distributed database?
A distributed database is a database that consists of two or more files located in different sites on the same or different networks. Continue Reading
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Feature
22 Jul 2025
Data lake vs. data warehouse: Key differences explained
Data lakes and data warehouses differ in structure, processing and use cases, offering distinct advantages for enterprise analytics and data strategies. Continue Reading
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News
21 Jul 2025
Oracle adds MCP support to advance agentic AI development
Given that the open standard simplifies the complex process of connecting systems during agentic AI development, the tech giant's integration with MCP stands to benefit users. Continue Reading
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Definition
18 Jul 2025
What is MySQL?
MySQL is a popular, scalable, user-friendly, open source and free relational database management system (RDBMS) that uses Structured Query Language (SQL) to store, manage, and manipulate data. Continue Reading
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Tip
17 Jul 2025
8 best practices for IoT data management
IoT data management applies stewardship practices to handle large volumes of sensor data, ensuring security and compliance while coordinating across teams for reliable data access. Continue Reading
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News
17 Jul 2025
Ataccama targets business users with latest AI capabilities
The vendor's latest update makes data lineage accessible to business users, enabling them to trust their data and make decisions without consulting trained experts for assistance. Continue Reading
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Opinion
15 Jul 2025
How data for AI is changing the modern data platform
Data platforms must evolve to meet AI requirements, with a greater focus on real-time integration, unified governance, infrastructure flexibility and data quality. Continue Reading
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15 Jul 2025
Microsoft, Databricks simplify synchronizing, sharing data
A new integration designed by the tech giant and data platform vendor eliminates the need for users to move or copy data to join it across platforms for better-informed analysis. Continue Reading
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15 Jul 2025
SnapLogic adds MCP support to aid agentic AI deployment
Following the launch of AgentCreator in 2024, the data integration vendor is adding support for the open standard to better enable customers to build and manage agentic tools. Continue Reading
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News
15 Jul 2025
Qdrant lowers vector database complexity to aid development
The vendor now provides an integrated environment for operationalizing unstructured data to aid enterprises struggling with a profusion of tools to generate and manage vectors. Continue Reading
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Definition
11 Jul 2025
What is data orchestration?
Data orchestration is the process of automating, coordinating and organizing the movement of data across an enterprise through business intelligence (BI) and other analytical tools. Continue Reading
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Opinion
11 Jul 2025
Enterprise data platforms adapt for GenAI and agentic AI
Generative and agentic AI are redefining enterprise data strategy as platforms evolve to support new demands for quality, access and governance. Continue Reading