A decade ago, Ion Stoica and his colleagues at UC Berkeley's school of computing identified the roadblock to performing advanced analytics. The challenge at the time was what we then called Big Data.

The importance of databases to modern enterprise AI operations cannot be overstated. Data helps to train and ground AI, and multiple research reports show that without proper data, AI efforts tend to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robert, founder of KramerERP, covers AI, ERP, SCM, data and security. I was recently back in San Francisco, attending the ...

Databricks acquires Neon to integrate its serverless Postgress database, enabling AI agents to deploy scalable, fast-provisioning data workloads. Databricks, a leading platform for data and AI ...

Databricks Data AI Summit 2026 is underway in San Francisco with 30,000 practitioners on the floor as Day 2 brings catalog ...

Agentic AI requires a whole new type of architecture; traditional workflows create serious gridlock, dragging down speed and performance. Databricks is signaling its intent to get ahead in this next ...

Databricks Inc. is reportedly seeking to buy Neon Inc., a startup that sells a commercial version of the open-source PostgreSQL database. Tech publication Upstarts Media today cited sources as saying ...

Databricks Inc. today introduced a new serverless database called Lakebase that can process more than 10,000 queries per second. The service is based on PostgreSQL, a popular open-source relational ...