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7 data modeling techniques and concepts for business

Three types of data models and various data modeling techniques are available to data management teams to help convert data into valuable business information.

By Rick Sherman • July 12, 2024

Oracle’s new Exadata architecture targets efficiency, cost

With Exascale, the tech giant aims to improve the efficiency of its relational database platform to handle GenAI workloads while dramatically reducing costs with new pricing.

By Eric Avidon • July 11, 2024

How GenAI-created synthetic data improves augmentation

Synthetic data can enhance the performance and capabilities of data augmentation techniques. Navigate the challenges generative AI models present to reap the benefits.

By Mary Pratt • July 11, 2024

Data quality specialist Soda secures $14M to fuel expansion

The Europe-based vendor intends to use its latest funding to shift its growth focus to the U.S. while also continuing to invest in its AI-fueled observability platform.

By Eric Avidon • July 11, 2024

An explanation of AI buzzwords

Here are some simple explanations of common AI buzzwords.

By Lev Craig • July 10, 2024

Graph technology helps battle election misinformation

Backed by a grant from Neo4j, including free use of its platform, Syracuse University is exposing coordinated networks that spread election misinformation on social media.

By Eric Avidon • July 10, 2024

data marketplace (data market)

A data marketplace, or data market, is an online store where people can buy data.

By Nick Barney • July 10, 2024

An explanation of foundation models

The core of every generative AI chatbot -- such as ChatGPT, Bard and YouChat -- is the foundation model.

By Kaitlin Herbert • July 9, 2024

What is master data management (MDM)?

Master data management (MDM) is a process that creates a uniform set of data on customers, products, suppliers and other business entities from different IT systems.

By Jack Vaughan, Craig Stedman • July 5, 2024

Databricks launches generative AI tools, including assistant

The vendor's assistant and automatically generated metadata descriptions together enable users to work with data using natural language and receive accurate outputs in response.

By Eric Avidon • July 2, 2024

data structure

A data structure is a specialized format for organizing, processing, retrieving and storing data.

By Scott Robinson, David Loshin, Sarah Lewis • July 2, 2024

SingleStore adds Iceberg integration, improved vector search

The data platform vendor's latest update targets GenAI development by enabling easier access to unstructured data, making searches more efficient and optimizing cloud consumption.

By Eric Avidon • June 26, 2024

Oracle launches HeatWave GenAI to fuel AI development

The tech giant updated its database with new features aimed at simplifying model and application development cost-effectively, including in-database LLMs.

By Eric Avidon • June 26, 2024

Open Database Connectivity (ODBC)

Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) is an open standard application programming interface (API) that allows application programmers to easily access data stored in a database.

By Adam Hughes, Gavin Wright • June 25, 2024

Evaluating data quality requires clear and measurable KPIs

KPIs and metrics are necessary to measure the quality of data. Organizations can use the dimensions of data quality to establish metrics and KPIs for their specific needs.

By Mary Pratt • June 25, 2024

database management system (DBMS)

A database management system (DBMS) is a software system for creating and managing databases.

By Kinza Yasar , Craig Mullins • June 25, 2024

relational database

A relational database is a type of database that organizes data points with defined relationships for easy access.

By Ben Lutkevich, Jacqueline Biscobing, Alexander Gillis • June 21, 2024

Actian goes to the edge with latest Zen database update

The data management and analytics vendor's embeddable database now includes streaming capabilities via support for Kafka and faster query times that enable decisions in real time.

By Eric Avidon • June 20, 2024

Reltio targets trusted data with GenAI, prebuilt tools

The vendor's latest update adds new customer insight capabilities, including an AI assistant, and industry-specific tools all aimed at providing a trusted foundation for analysis.

By Eric Avidon • June 17, 2024

Anomalo unveils quality monitoring for unstructured data

The data quality specialist's capabilities will enable customers to monitor unstructured text to ensure the health of data used to inform analytics and AI models and applications.

By Eric Avidon • June 14, 2024

Graph database vs. relational database: Key differences

Graph databases offer plenty of advantages for enterprises, but relational databases still top the market. Both emphasize relationships between data, but how do they compare?

By Kara Joyce • June 14, 2024

What is data architecture? A data management blueprint

Data architecture is a discipline that documents an organization's data assets, maps how data flows through IT systems and provides a blueprint for managing data, as this guide explains.

By Craig Stedman • June 14, 2024

data mesh

Data mesh is a decentralized data management architecture for analytics and data science.

By Kinza Yasar , George Lawton • June 12, 2024

Multi-cloud databases: How to deploy and manage them

Deploying databases on different cloud platforms offers various benefits. Here's a set of 10 best practices for building a multi-cloud database architecture.

By Jeff McCormick • June 12, 2024

New Databricks tools target AI quality, cost and security

The vendor's latest features aim to help customers improve model accuracy by securely developing compound systems that include multiple language models and RAG pipelines.

By Eric Avidon • June 12, 2024