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Evaluate and choose from the top 10 data profiling tools

Any effective data quality process needs data profiling. Evaluate key criteria to select which of the top 10 data profiling tools best fits your needs.

By George Lawton • June 7, 2024

Databricks $1B-plus Tabular acquisition adds Iceberg support

The lakehouse specialist's latest purchase adds support for Apache Iceberg to its existing support for Delta Lake and is also a direct confrontation of rival Snowflake.

By Eric Avidon • June 6, 2024

Data lake governance: Benefits, challenges and getting started

A data lake that isn't well governed might become more of a swamp. Explore the key benefits and challenges of data governance in a data lake, plus initial steps to take.

By Anne Marie Smith, Ph.D. • June 6, 2024

RDBMS (relational database management system)

A relational database management system (RDBMS) is a collection of programs and capabilities that enable IT teams and others to create, update, administer and otherwise interact with a relational database.

By Kate Brush, Alexander Gillis • June 6, 2024

data de-identification

Data de-identification is decoupling or masking data, to prevent certain data elements from being associated with the individual.

By Stephen Bigelow • June 4, 2024

Data readiness unlocks the potential of AI

AI models rely on data to function. Before implementing AI, make sure your data can support initiatives by evaluating its quality, accessibility, integration and governance.

By Stephen Catanzano • June 4, 2024

Snowflake demonstrates shift to AI with newest features

After a slow start to building an environment for developing AI applications, the vendor unveils new features that show it is catching up to its peers.

By Eric Avidon • June 4, 2024

What is data management and why is it important? Full guide

Data management is the process of ingesting, storing, organizing and maintaining the data created and collected by an organization, as explained in this in-depth guide.

By Craig Stedman • May 28, 2024

database (DB)

A database is a collection of information that is organized so that it can be easily accessed, managed and updated.

By Ben Lutkevich, Adam Hughes, Alexander Gillis • May 28, 2024

Managing databases in a hybrid cloud: 10 key considerations

To manage hybrid cloud database environments, consider business and application goals, consistency, configuration management, synchronization, latency, security and stability.

By George Lawton • May 23, 2024

10 best practices for managing data in microservices

Data architects managing loosely coupled microservices applications need to make the right decisions about databases, data ownership, sharing, consistency and failure recovery.

By Jeff McCormick • May 21, 2024

Informatica adds AI assistant, GenAI development interface

The longtime data management vendor's new capabilities simplify use of its platform, enabling nontechnical users to work with its tools and making experts more efficient.

By Eric Avidon • May 21, 2024

hashing

Hashing is the process of transforming any given key or a string of characters into another value.

By Andrew Zola, Kinza Yasar • May 17, 2024

DBT Labs unveils AI assistant, more tools to transform data

The data transformation specialist's latest update includes new governance and metadata management capabilities as well as an AI-powered copilot for developer efficiency.

By Eric Avidon • May 15, 2024

GPT-4

GPT-4 is OpenAI's large multimodal language model that generates text from textual and visual input.

By Ben Lutkevich • May 14, 2024

Alation adds automation to deal with exploding data volume

The data catalog specialist's Workflow Automation provides customers with bots and prebuilt workflows that aid data stewardship by automating repetitive data management tasks.

By Eric Avidon • May 13, 2024

Data profiling vs. data mining: Why you need both

Data mining and data profiling have different roles. Using one without the other is not an option for data management operations that want quality data and usable insights.

By Maria Korolov • May 10, 2024

Dremio adds text-to-SQL tool, new partnerships to fuel GenAI

The latest update from the data lakehouse specialist includes text-to-SQL translation capabilities and new partnerships that help create an ecosystem for GenAI development.

By Eric Avidon • May 7, 2024

What is a data protection officer (DPO) and what do they do?

Today's DPO must juggle technical, legal and collaborative skills in the shadow of more sophisticated data breaches, tougher data privacy laws and generative AI deployments.

By George Lawton • May 2, 2024

MongoDB launches tools for developing generative AI apps

The database vendor's new capabilities include Atlas Stream Processing to enable real-time model updates and Atlas Search Nodes to handle advanced analytics workloads.

By Eric Avidon • May 2, 2024

Oracle adds vector search capabilities to database platform

The tech giant's update features capabilities aimed at enabling users to operationalize unstructured data as well as bring AI to their data to avoid duplication and isolation.

By Eric Avidon • May 2, 2024

database administrator (DBA)

A database administrator (DBA) is the information technician responsible for directing and performing all activities related to maintaining and securing a successful database environment.

By Kinza Yasar , Craig Mullins • May 1, 2024

TigerGraph unveils GenAI assistant, introduces new CEO

Under the leadership of Hamid Azzawe, the graph database specialist's new copilot and platform update target new users beyond its historical base of academics and engineers.

By Eric Avidon • April 30, 2024

data gravity

Data gravity is the ability of a body of data to attract applications, services and other data.

By Scott Robinson, Ivy Wigmore • April 29, 2024

The 5 components of a DataOps architecture

Reaping the benefits of DataOps requires good architecture. Use five core components to design a DataOps architecture that best fits organizational needs.

By Vincent Granville • April 29, 2024