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.

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 ...

When Databricks claimed to have cracked an age-old database problem, it came with a clear marketing message: "One data, zero compromises, zero copies." Inevitably, that led engineers to search for ...

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 ...

At Data + AI Summit, Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi unveiled LTAP, a new architecture that collapses the 40-year unification ...

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 ...

Data analytics platform Databricks said on Wednesday that it has agreed to acquire Neon, a startup building an open source alternative to AWS Aurora Postgres, for about $1 billion. Databricks said ...

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 ...

Serverless wasn't the only new feature announced last week. AWS also announced the preview of automated materialized views that treat the creation of these views much like cost-based query optimizers: ...

Databricks Inc. today put some meat on the bones of its announcement three weeks ago that it had raised new funding that valued the company at more than $100 billion. The company said it is closing a ...