Edge’s ColdFront could appeal to enterprises looking to reduce storage costs without sacrificing application compatibility or the ability to modify historical data.

SlothDB is a from-scratch C++20 embedded SQL database in active development. Same model as DuckDB and SQLite: query Parquet, CSV, JSON, Arrow, Avro, SQLite, and Excel files directly with SQL, ...

The role of the Database Administrator (DBA) has always been dynamic, evolving alongside shifts in technology, data strategies, and business needs. But in 2025, the DBA’s responsibilities are ...

Data warehousing giant Snowflake is holding its annual user and partner conference, Snowflake Summit 2025, this week. As with most infrastructure software vendors, the company emphasized the ...

Data lakehouse provider Databricks has acquired data platform modernization software provider BladeBridge for an undisclosed sum to help its new customers move from rival data warehouses, such as ...

The increasing adoption of AI technologies is presenting new challenges for our customers’ data estate and applications. Most organizations expect to deploy AI workloads across a hybrid mix of cloud, ...

PolyBase, a data virtualization feature for SQL Server, allows users to seamlessly query data from various external sources directly using T-SQL (Transact-SQL) without the need for separate client ...

Databricks, AWS and Google Cloud are among the top ETL tools for seamless data integration, featuring AI, real-time processing and visual mapping to enhance business intelligence. Extract, transform ...

Earlier this year, I had the privilege of serving on the organizing committee for the DataTune conference in my hometown of Nashville, Tenn. Unlike many database-specific or platform-specific ...