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.

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 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 ...

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 ...

Revefi brings its autonomous AI DBA to Databricks, optimizing cost and performance 24/7. Live at Data + AI Summit 2026 ...

‘The era of AI-native, agent-driven applications is reshaping what a database must do. Neon proves it: Four out of every five databases on their platform are spun up by code, not humans,’ says ...