Software — Database — August 13th, 2026
AWS key exposed in JavaScript may have lit way to Beacon's charity data
CRM provider confirms customer database was copied and probably downloaded in readable form
August 13th, 2026 — Source
Databricks acquires Electric to bring local Postgres databases to agentic apps
Databricks' local Postgres approach could make agentic applications faster and cheaper, but analysts warn that enterprises will need to address new governance and security challenges.
August 13th, 2026 — Source
PostgreSQL 19 Beta 3 and Critical Security Patches Released; PG 14 EOL Notice Issued
PostgreSQL has released maintenance updates for all supported versions, addressing 30 security vulnerabilities, including heap buffer overflows and risks of remote code execution. The third beta of PostgreSQL 19 introduces new features such as a unified REPACK command, SQL Property Graph query support, and improved temporal data handling. Significant performance enhancements include automatic conversions of NOT IN to ANTI JOINs and a switch to LZ4 as the default TOAST compression method. Additionally, PostgreSQL 14 will reach end-of-life on November 12, 2026, and users are encouraged to upgrade to a supported version before that date
August 13th, 2026 — Source
Why AWS and Azure Handle Data Perimeter Differently
AWS and Azure handle identities and audit logging in fundamentally different ways, changing what you see in your security logs when someone tries to access your data.
August 13th, 2026 — Source
Software — Database — August 12th, 2026
SQL Server Management Studio 22.9 brings Modern Connection Dialog updates and lots more
Microsoft's SSMS 22.9.0 update adds major connection dialog upgrades, safer GitHub Copilot Ask Mode, SQL Formatter controls, and more.
August 12th, 2026 — Source
Software — General Information — August 12th, 2026
Big Cloud is poised to corner the market for enterprise hardware
AI gave hyperscalers first dibs on scarce kit, and business buyers may have little choice but to rent it back
August 12th, 2026 — Source
Cloud and DevOps InfoQ Trends Report 2026: AI, Resilience, Platforms, FinOps, and Sovereignty
In this episode of the podcast, members of the InfoQ editorial staff and friends of InfoQ will discuss current trends in the cloud and DevOps domains as part of our annual trends report. These reports provide InfoQ readers with a high-level overview of key topics to watch and also help the editorial team focus on innovative technologies. In addition to the report and the trends graph available on InfoQ.com, this podcast offers a chance to hear our raw conversation and the stories shared by our expert practitioners.
August 12th, 2026 — Source
InfoQ Cloud and DevOps Trends Report - 2026
The InfoQ Trends Reports offer InfoQ readers a concise, opinionated overview of topics that we believe architects and technical leaders should prioritize. In addition to this report and the updated DevOps and Cloud InfoQ trends graph, an accompanying podcast is available, featuring several editors and friends of InfoQ discussing these trends.
August 12th, 2026 — Source
MCP Goes Stateless, and Developers Ask Whether That Just Makes it an API Again
The MCP 2026-07-28 specification drops protocol sessions. Coverage so far has framed that as a scaling win, and it is one. But the same release adds two required HTTP headers, and those headers let a gateway route, throttle and meter agent traffic without ever opening the request body.
August 12th, 2026 — Source
Netflix Adopts Cloud-Native Job Queueing System Kueue to Replace an In-House Solution
Netflix migrated most of its batch workloads onto Kueue, an open-source cloud-native batch job execution system that has outgrown its homegrown solution over the years. The company mapped the capabilities previously created in-house to Kueue's functionality and also benefited from new features that would have been costly to incorporate into its homegrown solution. Engineers used API parity with the existing system to derisk the project and allow for a gradual and seamless migration.
August 12th, 2026 — Source
Spotify Builds External Index to Enable Low Latency Point Queries on its Data Lake
Spotify has introduced Random Access Parquet (RAP), a storage architecture that enables low-latency point queries directly against data stored in its data lake, allowing online services and AI applications to retrieve individual records without replicating datasets into operational databases. RAP adds an external indexing layer over Apache Parquet files, enabling interactive lookups while continuing to use the same datasets for analytics, machine learning, and online serving.
August 12th, 2026 — Source
The Headless Operations Engine: Solving Small-Business Friction With Enterprise Architecture Principles
An Enterprise Architect applies corporate design patterns (idempotency, temporal bounding) to a free-tier stack automating awkward small-business invoice reminders.
August 12th, 2026 — Source
UK puts £14B cloud framework in place with SMEs promised a bigger slice
Global players dominate the market. Will public sector buyers give local suppliers a look-in?
August 12th, 2026 — Source
Software — Database — August 7th, 2026
Airtable joins Evernote, Brightcove, WeTransfer and AOL in Bending Spoons portfolio
The Italian holding company has added another software business to its roster of distressed assets.
August 7th, 2026 — Source
Database Bottlenecks Nobody Talks About: Optimizing SQL Queries Beyond Indexing
Indexes aren't enough. Learn how stale statistics, lock contention, and smarter SQL optimization keep databases fast, scalable, and production-ready.
August 7th, 2026 — Source
Remove the Columns Argument to Fix CSV Errors in Power Query
Power Query's auto-generated M code often introduces unnecessary rigidity, which can hinder the flexibility of your data workflows. Excel Off The Grid highlights practical ways to address this issue, such as removing the "columns” argument when working with CSV files that have varying column counts. This adjustment allows Power Query to dynamically adapt to changes in file structure, eliminating errors caused by fixed column definitions and reducing the need for manual updates.
August 7th, 2026 — Source
Software — Database — July 31st, 2026
Microsoft almost gave away the keys to everyone's Azure Cosmos DBs
Microsoft spent eight months fixing a cloud database bug uncovered by Wiz.
July 31th, 2026 — Source
Software — Database — July 29th, 2026
After rewriting SQLite in Rust, Turso turns its sights on Postgres
Cloud database upstart wants one virtual machine core to power multiple SQL frontends
July 29th, 2026 — Source
Software — Database — July 27th, 2026
How to Bring SQL Database Out of Emergency Mode | Complete Guide
Emergency Mode is a state of SQL database that allows read only access even if it is corrupted. You can use this mode to recover a database, which is in SUSPECT or RECOVERY pending state, or for other troubleshooting needs. Sometimes, SQL Server itself changes the database to EMERGENCY mode. In this article, we will discuss the causes for the database entering in EMERGENCY mode and how to resolve it.
July 27th, 2026 — Source
Software — Database — July 24th, 2026
From APIs to Agents: How Back-End Engineering is Evolving in 2026
Back-end engineering is moving from static APIs to autonomous, AI-driven agents that can plan, decide, and act—not just respond to requests.
July 24th, 2026 — Source
Software — Database — July 23rd, 2026
Compiling Workflows into Databases: the Architecture That Shouldn't Work (But Does)
Jeremy Edberg & Qian Li discuss why external orchestrators decrease reliability and how to use your existing database for durable execution. They share how DBOS Transact uses standard tables, SKIP LOCKED queues, and unique primary keys to manage complex, fault-tolerant AI workflows with minimal latency, all without the operational overhead of separate distributed systems.
July 23rd, 2026 — Source
Software — Database — July 22nd, 2026
Oracle expands Cloud@Customer with new database service for mid-sized workloads
Base Database Cloud@Customer could help regulated enterprises modernize databases and deploy AI closer to sensitive data, although its appeal is likely to remain strongest among existing Oracle customers, analysts say.
July 22nd, 2026 — Source
Software — Database — July 10th, 2026
Database Normalization, ACID Properties, and SCDs: A Comprehensive Guide
Master database normalization, ACID properties, and Slowly Changing Dimensions (Types 0--3) with practical examples and performance best practices.
July 10th, 2026 — Source
Replacing Direct Storage URLs With a Media Proxy at Scale
Direct storage URLs broke under production constraints, so I replaced them with a UUID-based media proxy for auth, thumbnails, bulk downloads, and storage abstraction.
July 10th, 2026 — Source
Software — Database — July 9th, 2026
AlloyDB Ships Proxy Models That Replace LLM Calls with Local Inference inside the Database
According to Google's internal testing, smart batching delivers a 2,400x improvement in throughput over row-at-a-time processing, while optimized proxy models push that to 23,000x with a 6,000x reduction in cost. While these headline numbers warrant engineering scrutiny, the underlying proxy model architecture is what practitioners should focus on.
July 9th, 2026 — Source
Software — Database — June 23rd, 2026
21,000 Oracle jobs vanish amid Big Red's big bets on AI
Annual report reveals workforce fell from 162,000 to 141,000 in a year as company pours billions into datacenter expansion
June 23rd, 2026 — Source
Microsoft Access finally breaks free of its 22-inch form limit
CRT-era restriction dragged into the widescreen age after 34 years
June 23rd, 2026 — Source
Software — Database — June 22nd, 2026
Keeping AI-Powered BI Honest: A Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) Playbook
AI-generated SQL can look right while being wrong. Learn how human-in-the-loop workflows build trust through reviews, approvals, audits, and escalation paths.
June 22nd, 2026 — Source
The database that refused to die: How Postgres survived its own creators
From academic toss-aside to cloud substrate
June 22nd, 2026 — Source
The new database world according to Google: Inexact queries and AI in everything
'Humans are not going to be using data platforms in the next three to five years,' product exec tells us
June 22nd, 2026 — Source
TiDB -- cloud-native, distributed SQL database
TiDB is a cloud-native, distributed SQL database designed for applications that need strong consistency, high availability, and scalability across clusters.
June 22nd, 2026 — Source
When Valid SQL Was Still the Wrong Answer
A personal project exploring why AI-generated SQL isn't always trustworthy and how semantic context, validation, and governance improve analytics accuracy.
June 22nd, 2026 — Source
Software — Database — June 19th, 2026
From Open SQL to CDS Views: Rewriting SAP Data Access for Performance at Scale
Swap Open SQL for CDS views to push logic into HANA and centralize reusable data models, but verify the execution plan, not just the pattern
June 19th, 2026 — Source
Jakarta NoSQL: Why JPA Is Not Enough for the AI Era
Jakarta NoSQL provides a familiar Java programming model while preserving the strengths of document, graph, key-value, and AI-driven vector databases.
June 19th, 2026 — Source
Software — Database — June 16th, 2026
SQL Server may be too lucrative for Microsoft to ditch, but too legacy to love
Analysts say Redmond still has billions of reasons to keep backing its flagship DBMS, even as Azure, Postgres, and AI hog the spotlight
June 16th, 2026 — Source
Software — Database — June 10th, 2026
SQL Server Management Studio 22.7 brings "What's New" page, T-SQL formatting, and lots more
SSMS 22.7 arrives with native SQL formatting, AI-powered Agent Mode, and Copilot execution controls, bringing major workflow upgrades.
June 10th, 2026 — Source
Software — Database — June 8th, 2026
10 MCP servers to connect LLMs with databases
Use these official MCP servers to interact with the leading database platforms via natural language through your LLM-assisted tools.
June 8th, 2026 — Source
Software — Database — June 5th, 2026
Microsoft allows BYOL for Amazon RDS. Repeat, Microsoft allows BYOL for Amazon RDS
SQL Server licenses can now be consumed in the rival cloud's DBaaS
June 5th, 2026 — Source
Software — Database — May 28th, 2026
Master-Class: Understanding Database Replication (Single, Multi, and Leaderless)
This article walks through the different database replication strategies, provides practical insights, identifies common pitfalls, and explains how to overcome them.
May 28th, 2026 — Source
Software — Database — May 22nd, 2026
AWS Managed Database Observability: Monitoring DynamoDB, ElastiCache, and Redshift Beyond CloudWatch
Three AWS managed databases, three dashboards, and one cascade you can only trace by hand. This guide fills the gap CloudWatch leaves open.
May 22nd, 2026 — Source
Discord Rebuilds Database Operations around Automation to Manage ScyllaDB at Massive Scale
Discord has detailed how it rebuilt its database operations around a new internal orchestration framework called the Scylla Control Plane (SCP), enabling its small infrastructure team to automate large-scale ScyllaDB cluster management tasks that previously took days of manual work. The platform now automates complex operations such as rolling upgrades, cluster expansion, shadow cluster provisioning, and node recovery across hundreds of database nodes, dramatically reducing operational overhead and risk.
May 22nd, 2026 — Source
How Retry Storms Crash API-Led Systems: Bounded Reliability Patterns for Distributed Architectures
Unbounded retries and autoscaling can turn minor latency into cascading outages. API reliability must be bounded and load-aware to prevent retry storms.
May 22nd, 2026 — Source
Liquibase: Database Change Management and Automated Deployments
Liquibase automates schema versioning and deployment via changelogs, enabling version-controlled, rollback-ready migrations with tracking for DevOps pipelines.
May 22nd, 2026 — Source
Stop Poisoning Your Models: How I Built a CV Dataset Quality Toolkit I Can Reuse Forever
CV data issues keep recurring. I built cv-quality — a toolkit to audit datasets, catch annotation errors, find mislabeled samples, and streamline labeling.
May 22nd, 2026 — Source
Software — Database — May 21st, 2026
Production Database Migration or Modernization: A Comprehensive Planning Guide [Part 2]
A multi-part walkthrough of the essential components of planning and executing a successful production database migration for large-scale backend services.
May 21st, 2026 — Source
Software — Database — May 18th, 2026
Google tells database devs to lean hard on AI for PostgreSQL work
Cloud giant says humans remain accountable, even when code gets an assist from the machines
May 18th, 2026 — Source
Software — Database — May 14th, 2026
A better way to work with SQL Server
It's time to switch to a new development tool for SQL Server an4d Azure SQL. Here's how to get started with the MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code.
May 14th, 2026 — Source
Lease Coordination Under Serializable Isolation in CockroachDB
Multi-region systems that rely on entity-scoped write coordination often reach a scale where correctness is no longer the primary challenge; predictability under sustained concurrency is. CockroachDB's serializable isolation model makes lease-based coordination attractive because it eliminates external lock services while preserving strict ordering guarantees. Early architecture reviews typically focus on invariants: single-writer enforcement, fencing epochs, failover safety, and replication durability. Those properties are easy to reason about in isolation. The long-term constraint is not logical soundness. It is how that coordination behaves once leased traffic becomes a first-class component of system throughput.
May 14th, 2026 — Source
Software — Database — May 8th, 2026
Custom Model Context Protocol (MCP) for NL2SQL: A Rigorous Evaluation Framework on Oracle Database
Used MCP to evaluate LLM-generated SQL on Oracle: baseline vs MCP, comparing semantics, order, strings, and EXPLAIN PLAN on 500-query TPC-H.
May 8th, 2026 — Source
Software — Database — May 7th, 2026
MongoDB targets AI's retrieval problem
By integrating long-term memory, embeddings, and re-ranking, the company aims to improve trust in agent outputs.
May 7th, 2026 — Source
Software — Database — May 4th, 2026
Building Fault-Tolerant Kafka Consumers in Spring Boot Using Retry, DLQ, and Idempotent Code Patterns
Retry transient failures, route poison messages to a DLQ, and deduplicate with a DB table three layers that turn a fragile Kafka consumer into a fault tolerant one.
May 4th, 2026 — Source
Software — Database — April 27th, 2026
Architecting Autonomous Agents: A Deep Dive into Azure AI Foundry Agent Service
Build enterprise-ready AI agents using Azure AI Foundry Agent Service with integrated tools, state management, and robust security.
April 27th, 2026 — Source
Treat PII as Toxic: Designing Secure Systems That Contain the Blast Radius
PII is toxic data. Design systems to isolate, encrypt, restrict access, and minimize breach impact by containing the blast radius.
April 27th, 2026 — Source
Software — Database — April 21st, 2026
SOLAI Launches Solode Neo: Pre-Configured with OpenClaw, Built for Always-On AI Agents
SOLAI Limited ("SOLAI" or the "Company"), a technology-driven personal AI and digital infrastructure provider, today announced the launch of Solode Neo, a personal AI device designed to run and host autonomous AI agents at home or in the office. This launch marks a key milestone in executing the Company's multi-layer personal AI infrastructure blueprint.
April 21st, 2026 — Source
The spaghettified DBMS chart that shows Oracle's crown is slowly slipping
Change is glacial, but the direction is clear
April 21st, 2026 — Source
Software — Database — April 9th, 2026
Applying Oracle 19c Release Update (RU): A Practical Guide from My DBA Experience
Learn how to upgrade an Oracle 19c standalone database from 19.3 to 19.20 with a step-by-step guide covering preparation, patching, and validation.
April 9th, 2026 — Source
Bringing databases and Kubernetes together
OpenEverest is an open-source platform for automating the provisioning and management of any database on any Kubernetes infrastructure.
April 9th, 2026 — Source
Reliable material databases bridge AI- and experimental-led material discovery
Materials databases lie at the heart of future data-driven discovery in energy-related fields, say researchers.
April 9th, 2026 — Source
Software — Database — April 8th, 2026
DXC lands Metropolitan Police outsourcing deal that could climb to £1B
Supplier will support the current Oracle E-Business Suite and lead migration to a new Oracle Fusion SaaS platform
April 8th, 2026 — Source
Software — Database — April 3rd, 2026
Chat with Your Oracle Database: SQLcl MCP + GitHub Copilot
MCP gives Copilot a standard way to call tools (like SQLcl) without custom integrations. SQLcl runs locally and talks to Oracle; SQL MCP exposes an MCP server over stdio.
April 3rd, 2026 — Source
Replacing Database Sequences at Scale without Breaking 100+ Services
Always validate your requirements. We initially assumed teams needed gap-free IDs and strict global ordering, but after some uncomfortable conversations realized they could live without both. That single shift collapsed a hard distributed coordination problem into something almost embarrassingly simple.
April 3rd, 2026 — Source
Retiring a Tier-0 Legacy Database Without Breaking the Business
Tier-0 database migrations succeed only with deterministic transformations, reproducible validation, and irreversible-aware cutovers under real production constraints.
April 3rd, 2026 — Source
Software — Database — April 2nd, 2026
Mastering Azure Kubernetes Service: The Ultimate Guide to Scaling, Security, and Cost Optimization
Learn to optimize AKS with automated scaling, robust security policies, and cost-saving techniques for high-performance cloud clusters.
April 2nd, 2026 — Source
Software — Database — April 1st, 2026
DocumentDB on Kubernetes
Securely connect to a MongoDB DocumentDB replica set in Kubernetes using mongosh with credentials retrieved dynamically from Kubernetes secrets for direct access.
April 1st, 2026 — Source
Software — Database — March 24th, 2026
MariaDB Doesn't Depend on MySQL
Discussions continue regarding MySQL's future at Oracle, the role of MariaDB in the market, and the reality of their growing divergence in the Open Source industry.
March 24th, 2026 — Source
SAP already shifting focus from ERP migration disaster in pursuit of AI-driven growth
New commercial models planned after cloud transition falls €2B behind target
March 24th, 2026 — Source
The Phantom Write Problem: Why Your Idempotency Implementation Is Silently Losing Data
A practical explanation of why idempotent APIs still produce phantom writes in production, and a race-free, transactional pattern to prevent them.
March 24th, 2026 — Source
When Windows 11 sneezes, Azure catches cold
Microsoft may want to see the Windows 11 backlash as just a desktop problem, but platform erosion on the client side can quickly become a cloud revenue problem.
March 24th, 2026 — Source
Software — Database — March 20th, 2026
AI as a SQL Performance Tuning Assistant: A Structured Evaluation
Can AI genuinely provide engineering‑grade SQL optimization insights, or does it mainly offer confident‑sounding but shallow guidance?
March 20th, 2026 — Source
Software — Database — March 18th, 2026
Fast Data Access Part 2: From Manual Hacks to Modern Stacks
Rebuild a legacy risk pipeline with GemFire, Spark, and Spring Boot. Sub-2ms alerts, ACID upserts, real-time dashboards, and a one-command demo.
March 18th, 2026 — Source
Software — Database — March 16th, 2026
Agentic AI: Autonomous AI Agent With PostgreSQL
Agentic AI builds goal-driven systems with planning, tools, memory, and state. This guide shows how to build one with PostgreSQL.
March 16th, 2026 — Source
DoorDash Builds DashCLIP to Align Images, Text, and Queries for Semantic Search Using 32M Labels
DoorDash Builds DashCLIP to Align Images, Text, and Queries for Semantic Search Using 32M Labels
March 16th, 2026 — Source
West Sussex's Oracle rollout pushed back again as costs balloon 15 times
Already five years late, project delayed another six months after price tag swells from £2.6M to £41M
March 16th, 2026 — Source
Software — Database — March 12th, 2026
Campaigners claim NHS Palantir system could be accessed by police and immigration
US spy-tech biz and platform provider retorts that this would be against the current law and a breach of its contract
March 12, 2026 — Source
Software — Database — March 11th, 2026
Building a Unified API Documentation Portal with React, Redoc, and Automatic RAML-to-OpenAPI Conversion
Learn how to build a modern static API documentation portal that supports both OpenAPI 3.x and RAML 1.0 specifications with automatic conversion.
March 11, 2026 — Source
Software — Database — March 4th, 2026
Capita's £370M Whitehall outsourcing deal challenged as 'abnormally low'
Rival bidder Sopra Steria launched legal claim over DWP procurement
March 4, 2026 — Source
Databricks Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines Migration From Non‑Unity Catalog to Unity Catalog
Migrating DLT to Unity Catalog mainly involves updating table references, permissions, and removing path-based access while keeping pipeline logic largely unchanged.
March 4, 2026 — Source
Software — Database — March 2nd, 2026
Hands-On with Azure Local via the Azure Portal
This guide explains how to deploy LocalBox with Azure Bicep and create Azure VMs, covering setup, networking, images, and deployment without physical hardware.
March 2, 2026 — Source
Software — Database — February 17th, 2026
MySQL community calls for discussions on the future of the ecosystem
Until recently MySQL was the leading open source database across the world. However, PostgreSQL has become the default choice for many new projects and younger developers, thanks to its active community, rich feature set (especially extensions), and strong brand momentum.
February 17, 2026 — Source
Software — Database — February 12th, 2026
Backing Up Azure Infrastructure with Python and Aztfexport
We treat code as a first-class citizen, but our actual cloud state often drifts. Here's how to build a Python-based "Time Machine" for Azure.
February 12, 2026 — Source
Software — Database — February 11th, 2026
Apple Buys Graph Database Startup Kuzu, EU Filing Shows More
Apple has acquired Kuzu, a young database company focused on graph technology, adding to a growing list of 2025 takeovers. The move follows Apple's recently confirmed $2 billion purchase of AI startup Q.ai. Together, these deals show Apple tightening its grip on artificial intelligence, data systems, and developer tools.
February 11, 2026 — Source
Kubernetes Drives AI Expansion as Cultural Shift Becomes Critical
Kubernetes has transitioned from a versatile framework for container orchestration to the primary engine powering the global surge in artificial intelligence development.
February 11, 2026 — Source
Kuzu database company joins Apple's list of recent acquisitions
Earlier this month, Apple confirmed its blockbuster $2 billion acquisition of the mysterious AI startup Q.ai. In addition to that deal, Apple also recently acquired a database company called Kuzu. Here's an in-depth list of recent acquisitions made by Apple.
February 11, 2026 — Source
Software — Database — February 6th, 2026
UK council digs deeper into capital assets to keep Oracle project afloat
West Sussex plans to triple use of property sales as ERP budget blows past original estimates
February 6, 2026 — Source
Software — Database — February 4th, 2026
Oracle Data Loading Reimagined: Performance Strategies for Modern Workloads
Combining direct path loading, parallelism, partitioning, index strategy, NOLOGGING, and tuned commits can reduce Oracle data load times by 70--90% in production.
February 4, 2026 — Source
Software — Database — February 2nd, 2026
A Generic MCP Database Server for Text-to-SQL
A YAML-driven, secure, and scalable framework that enables accurate text-to-SQL queries across PostgreSQL, MySQL, Snowflake, Redshift, and more.
February 2, 2026 — Source
Snowflake bets $200M that OpenAI makes databases more chatty
Cuts out the Azure middleman with multi-year deal for 'tighter alignment'
February 2, 2026 — Source
Software — Database — February 1st, 2026
Exposed MongoDB instances still targeted in data extortion attacks
A threat actor is targeting exposed MongoDB instances in automated data extortion attacks demanding low ransoms from owners to restore the data.
February 1, 2026 — Source
Software — Database — January 31st, 2026
Google Introduces Managed Connection Pooling for AlloyDB
Google Cloud has made managed connection pooling generally available for AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, bringing PgBouncer-like functionality directly into the database service. The feature delivers what Google claims is 3x more client connections and up to 5x higher transactional throughput than direct connections - addressing a scaling challenge that hits developers running high-concurrency workloads.
January 31, 2026 — Source
Software — Database — January 30th, 2026
Oracle seeks to build bridges with MySQL developers
Big Red promises 'new era' as long-frustrated contributors weigh whether to believe it
January 30, 2026 — Source
Software — Database — January 7th, 2026
AWS Bedrock versus Azure OpenAI versus Gemini API: A Practical Comparison
Bedrock = multi-model flexibility, Azure OpenAI = Microsoft-centric enterprise, Gemini = long-context and multimodal with free tier.
January 7, 2026 — Source
How to Build a Database without a Server
Alex Seaton discusses the architecture of ArcticDB, a high-performance Python/C++ library that replaces traditional database servers with a thick-client model. He explains how to achieve atomicity on object storage through bottom-up writes and shares deep insights into conflict-free replicated data types (CRDTs).
January 7, 2026 — Source
Implementing Idempotency in Distributed Spring Boot Applications Using MySQL
Implementing idempotency in distributed Spring Boot applications using MySQL row-level locking and transactions to handle concurrent requests safely.
January 7, 2026 — Source
Software — Database — January 5th, 2026
Self-Host Your Airtable Workflows with a Docker-Friendly SQL-Backed Grid Interface
What if you could break free from subscription fees, vendor lock-in, and row limits while still managing your data with the ease of a spreadsheet? Better Stack walks through how an open source platform called NoDB is redefining database management by transforming SQL databases into a user-friendly, spreadsheet-style interface. Unlike proprietary options like Airtable, NoDB enables users with full data ownership and the ability to self-host, making it a fantastic option for anyone seeking flexibility and control.
January 5, 2026 — Source
Unlocking Hidden Value in Dirty Data: A Practical NLP Pattern for Legacy Records
Legacy systems are full of free-text fields where valuable business data goes to die. NLP pipelines turn messy maintenance logs into structured, actionable insights.
January 5, 2026 — Source
Software — Database — January 2nd, 2026
Swiggy Rolls out Hermes V3: from Text-to-SQL to Conversational AI
Swiggy released Hermes V3, a GenAI-powered text-to-SQL assistant that enables employees to query data in plain English. Hermes operates within Slack, combining vector retrieval, session memory, agentic orchestration, and an explanation layer to generate accurate SQL queries from natural language inputs.
January 2, 2026 — Source
Software — Database — December 12th, 2025
User privacy in digital databases: New metric allows for more accurate assessment
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), in collaboration with the National Cybersecurity Institute (INCIBE), an entity under the Ministry for Digital Transformation and Public Administration through the Secretariat of State for Telecommunications and Digital Infrastructure, have promoted the development of a new probabilistic metric designed to more accurately measure the level of privacy and protection that users have in different databases.
December 12, 2025 — Source
Software — Database — December 5th, 2025
Azure Local, IoT Operations Get AI-Powered Edge Computing Enhancements
Azure Local and IoT Operations received a broad set of updates this week as Microsoft moved to expand AI-enabled edge computing across hybrid and highly distributed environments.
December 5, 2025 — Source
Software — Database — December 3rd, 2025
Azure API Management Premium v2 GA: Simplified Private Networking and VNet Injection
Microsoft recently announced the general availability (GA) of API Management Premium version 2, which features a new architecture that eliminates management traffic from the customer VNet, making private networking, according to the company, much more secure and easier to set up.
December 3, 2025 — Source
Dealing with the challenge of creating a unified SQL Server data estate [Q&A]
Many organizations are running SQL Server across Windows, Linux, containers, and Kubernetes. Obviously there are advantages if that environment can be unified into a single data estate, but doing so presents a number of challenges.
December 3, 2025 — Source
Memori Expands into a Full-Scale Memory Layer for AI Agents across SQL and MongoDB
Memori has matured into a full-featured, open-source memory system designed to give AI agents long-term, structured, and queryable memory using standard databases rather than proprietary vector stores. Instead of relying on ad-hoc prompts or ephemeral session state, Memori continuously extracts entities, facts, relationships, and context from interactions and stores them in SQL or MongoDB backends, enabling agents to recall and reuse information across sessions with no manual orchestration.
December 3, 2025 — Source
Software — Database — November 29th, 2025
Azure Virtual Desktop Goes Fully Hybrid with Arc-Enabled Servers
Microsoft recently announced a limited preview of Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) for hybrid environments, a new capability that brings cloud-native desktop virtualization to existing on-premises infrastructure.
November 29, 2025 — Source
Software — Database — November 26th, 2025
Azure SDK Release (November 2025) released
The latest Azure SDK release, focusing on November 2025 service versions, brings several important updates across different languages and services. The Storage library now supports the newest API version, enabling more reliable data transfers for .NET and Java developers, while also fixing long-standing issues with copy operations and error messages. Additionally, other services have received new releases, including Storage Queues in .NET and Java, and Identity Binding improvements within Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), which tackles limitations in workload identity and boosts scalability.
November 23, 2025 — Source
Software — Database — November 22nd, 2025
MariaDB 12.2.1 Release Candidate released
MariaDB Foundation has released the latest release candidate, 12.2.1. The new release offers improvements and refinements in various areas, including deeper compatibility with established systems like MySQL and Oracle, as well as enhancements to the optimizer and performance tools. Additionally, it includes practical additions such as the long-awaited Oracle TO_NUMBER function and a TRUNC() function to round numbers down, making number conversion easier. The update also addresses several issues and expands MariaDB's built-in metadata capabilities, solidifying its position as a strong database option.
November 21, 2025 — Source
Software — Database — November 20th, 2025
Beyond Vector Databases: Integrating RAG as a First-Class Data Platform Workload
Architectural framework that integrates RAG deeply into enterprise data platforms through event-driven indexing, multi-layer hybrid retrieval, and governance by design.
November 20, 2025 — Source
Manchester hits snooze again on joining Palantir-run NHS data platform
Care board still waiting for evidence that it will be in the best interests of the population
November 20, 2025 — Source
Software — Database — November 13th, 2025
DocumentDB Goes Cloud-Native: Introducing the DocumentDB Kubernetes Operator
Deploy, manage, and scale DocumentDB on Kubernetes with the new open-source DocumentDB Operator — cloud-native, PostgreSQL-based, and MongoDB-compatible.
November 13, 2025 — Source
ERP carnage continues as orgs jump in unprepared
Lack of executive backing, unrealistic plans, and muddled goals remain recipe for failure
November 13, 2025 — Source
Software — Database — November 7th, 2025
Microsoft Moves Azure DevOps MCP Server from Preview to General Availability
Microsoft announced in October 2025 that its Azure DevOps MCP Server, a local Model Context Provider designed to bring richer context to AI assistants like GitHub Copilot, has exited public preview and become generally available. The announcement appears in Microsoft's Azure DevOps blog, highlighting enhancements made following feedback from early adopters.
November 7, 2025 — Source
Software — Database — November 6th, 2025
A Practical Guide to Modernizing Data Serving Architectures Using DBSQL
Learn how we replaced our traditional RDS serving layer with direct lakehouse querying to improve performance, reduce cost, and achieve real-time data freshness.
November 6, 2025 — Source
Azure APIM Simplifies Event-Driven Architecture with Native Service Bus Policy
Microsoft recently announced a preview feature for its API Management (APIM) service that allows developers to send messages directly to Azure Service Bus using a built-in policy. The company states that the feature simplifies how organizations connect their API layer to event-driven, asynchronous systems.
November 6, 2025 — Source
Optimizing Write-Heavy Database Workloads for Low Latency
This article will explore the performance-related complexities that teams commonly face with write-heavy workloads and discuss your options for tackling them.
November 6, 2025 — Source
Tactical Domain-Driven Design: Bringing Strategy to Code
Tactical DDD transforms business understanding into code through seven core patterns — from entities to domain events — building software that truly reflects the domain.
November 6, 2025 — Source
Software — Database — November 5th, 2025
Azure Front Door Outage: How a Single Control-Plane Defect Exposed Architectural Fragility
Azure Front Door (ADF) is Microsoft's advanced cloud Content Delivery Network (CDN) designed to provide fast, reliable, and secure access to customers' applications' static and dynamic web content globally. This service recently experienced a nearly nine-hour global service disruption.
November 5, 2025 — Source
How to Integrate Playwright With Azure DevOps for Automated UI Testing
Read an overview of how to set up a Playwright Test automation pipeline with Azure DevOps, self-hosted agents, and HTML/JUnit reports.
November 5, 2025 — Source
Snowflake goes all out to woo PostgreSQL developers with lakehouse extensions
Buyers still struggling to differentiate data platforms in era of AI
November 5, 2025 — Source
Software — Database — October 31st, 2025
From Outages to Order: Netflix's Approach to Database Resilience with WAL
Netflix has implemented a Write-Ahead Log (WAL) system to increase the resilience of its data platform. WAL was designed to address various challenges at Netflix, including data loss, replication system entropy, multi-partition failures, and data corruption. The system captures database mutations in a durable log before applying them to downstream services, ensuring consistency and recoverability even during outages.
October 31, 2025 — Source
The clock's ticking for MySQL 8.0 as end of life looms
Percona says more than half of installs remain on version set to lose support in 2026
October 31, 2025 — Source
Software — Database — October 30th, 2025
Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB Adds Support for InfluxDB 3 Core and Enterprise
InfluxData, the creator of the time-series database, InfluxDB, recently announced the availability of InfluxDB 3 Core and InfluxDB 3 Enterprise on Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB.
October 30, 2025 — Source
How to Get a Frequency Table of a Categorical Variable as a Data Frame
Learn how to get a frequency table of a categorical variable as a Data Frame in R using table(), cut(), count(), and plyr — with clean, ready-to-use output.
October 30, 2025 — Source
Microsoft Azure Outage Ripples Across the Internet
Azure cloud computing platform took down a long list of services from Xbox Live and Microsoft 365 to critical systems for airlines and banks.
October 30, 2025 — Source
Software — Database — October 24th, 2025
Strategic Domain-Driven Design: The Forgotten Foundation of Great Software
Most teams skip strategic DDD and focus only on code. Learn how domains, contexts, and patterns align software with business reality.
October 24, 2025 — Source
Software — Database — October 20th, 2025
Should You Use Azure Data Factory?
Yes for most ETL scenarios, ADF handles data movement, basic transformations, and scheduling well, just don't expect it to replace custom code for complex business logic.
October 20, 2025 — Source
Software — Database — October 17th, 2025
DevEx Ambient Agent With Advanced Knowledge Graph
The Agentic DevEx Assistant boosts developer productivity by automating tasks, providing contextual insights, and offering personalized career growth guidance.
October 17, 2025 — Source
PostgreSQL Full-Text Search versus Pattern Matching: A Performance Comparison
We'll analyze the performance of PostgreSQL full-text search (FTS) versus pattern and regex searching, highlighting trade-offs and execution efficiency.
October 17, 2025 — Source
SAP users still wrestling with business case for S/4HANA
A decade later, ERP giant struggles to convince legacy customers to upgrade
October 17, 2025 — Source
Software — Database — October 10th, 2025
Data API Builder 1.6 Adds HTTP Header Controls and Flexible Logging
Microsoft has released Data API Builder (DAB) 1.6, expanding the open-source runtime's capabilities for REST and GraphQL endpoints over Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Cosmos DB. The new version introduces advanced HTTP header behaviours for better client-side control and a revamped logging subsystem designed to improve diagnostics and observability in both cloud and on-premise deployments.
October 10, 2025 — Source
Microsoft Azure Gets An Ultra Upgrade With NVIDIA's GB300 "Blackwell Ultra" GPUs, 4600 GPUs Connected Together To Run Over Trillion Parameter AI Models
Microsoft has announced its first at-scale production cluster featuring NVIDIA's GB300 "Blackwell Ultra" GPUs for massively-sized AI models.
October 10, 2025 — Source
Software — Database — October 8th, 2025
IBM invites CockroachDB to infest its mainframes with PostgreSQL
Vendors promote bridge to modern architecture for legacy systems, but Db2 not going anywhere just yet
October 8, 2025 — Source
Microsoft is moving GitHub over to Azure servers
It's the first major change to GitHub since losing its CEO.
October 8, 2025 — Source
Software — Database — October 3rd, 2025
Agoda Leverages ChatGPT in the CI/CD Process for SQL Stored Procedure Optimization
Agoda utilizes ChatGPT within their CI/CD process to optimize SQL stored procedures, shortening optimization times and reducing developer workload.
October 3, 2025 — Source
Software — Database — September 29th, 2025
Fork yeah: Valkey 9 sharpens edge against Redis
Open source database adds multi-tenant clustering, safer shutdowns, and eyes life beyond caching
September 29, 2025 — Source
Software — Database — September 25th, 2025
Lessons Learned From Building Production-Scale Data Conversion Pipelines
Converting large-scale enterprise data between systems is less about perfection than about making the right tradeoffs and engineering for scale and flexibility.
September 25, 2025 — Source
Software — Database — September 22nd, 2025
Azure IOT Cloud-to-Device Communication Methods
Learning and choosing the correct cloud-to-device communication method to send a message to the device using the Azure IoT Hub to build an effective IoT system.
September 22, 2025 — Source
Datadog Launches Monocle, a Unified Rust-Powered Real-Time Metrics Engine
Datadog has launched Monocle, a new real-time timeseries storage engine written in Rust. The system unifies the company's metrics storage infrastructure, delivering higher ingestion throughput and lower query latency while reducing operational complexity. Monocle replaces several generations of storage backends, addressing concurrency challenges and scaling limits that accumulated over time.
September 22, 2025 — Source
Easiest way to run LLMs locally
Most of you have interacted with a large language model (LLM) by now, or what we call AI these days. They've come a long way from being seen as hallucinating, incompetent chatbots to useful tools to have today. You're likely using an LLM from one of the Big 3 (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google), and a local LLM will likely not replace that either, but it does give you more options in privacy and control.
September 22, 2025 — Source
Scaling an Embedded Database for the Cloud -- Challenges and Trade-Offs
Stephanie Wang explains the journey of building MotherDuck, a serverless data warehouse, from the ground up using the in-process DuckDB. She discusses the challenges of cloudifying an embedded database, including coupled compute and storage, and details architectural choices and engineering tradeoffs made to enable cloud-native capabilities.
September 22, 2025 — Source
Software — Database — September 19th, 2025
User group says SAP's licensing models make cloud migration harder
DSAG criticizes separate regimes for public, private cloud, says users need more time to upgrade in uncertain times
September 19, 2025 — Source
Software — Database — September 16th, 2025
How TBMQ Uses Redis for Persistent Message Storage
Learn how we use Redis to scale MQTT session persistence in TBMQ — replacing PostgreSQL and improving performance with Lua scripts and the Lettuce async client.
September 16, 2025 — Source
Software — Database — September 9th, 2025
Tutorial: RAG at Scale With Vector Databases versus Lakehouse Architectures
Learn how to scale RAG pipelines by storing embeddings in vector databases versus lakehouses, with hands-on examples and key trade-offs.
September 9, 2025 — Source
Understanding Table Statistics in SQL Server: Importance, Performance Impact, and Practical Examples
SQL Server table statistics guide the optimizer in building efficient query plans. DBAs must keep them updated to avoid poor performance from stale data.
September 9, 2025 — Source
Software — Database — September 5th, 2025
Picking Server CPUs for Databases in 2025 is Still Complex
If you look at any major server CPU launch, you will undoubtedly see some form of claim that the CPU is good for databases. Storing and retrieving information is a basic function of traditional computing. Recently, I was at a dinner with a number of STH readers, and all of them ran databases. One individual exclaimed how they had nightmares of a 192-core processor, while another was explaining how awesome that would be to deploy.
September 5, 2025 — Source or Watch Video
Software — Database — September 4th, 2025
Microsoft simplifies Azure VM security, here's how
Microsoft has released Trusted Launch in-place upgrade support for Azure Virtual Machines and Scale Sets. This allows users to enhance security without downtime or complex migrations. It's now generally available for existing Gen1 and Gen2 VMs and Uniform scale sets, and in private preview for Flex scale sets. What's nice about this upgrade for customers is that it's provided at no additional cost.
September 4, 2025 — Source
PostgreSQL 18 eyes analytics boost and distributed future
Async I/O and UUID v7 highlights of the September release, though some SQL features are delayed
September 4, 2025 — Source
PostgreSQL 18 Release Candidate Now Available
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has announced the availability of the first release candidate (RC) for PostgreSQL 18, with a planned general availability date of September 25, 2025. To upgrade from earlier versions, users will need to employ a major version upgrade strategy such as pg_upgrade or pg_dump/pg_restore. Several bug fixes were applied since Beta 3, including improvements to vacuumdb and guidance on reindexing full-text search indexes after upgrading. The RC is expected to be nearly identical to the final release, with minor fixes made before its general availability.
September 4, 2025 — Source
Software — Database — September 1st, 2025
Azure budget alerts go berserk after Microsoft account migration misfire
Cloud customers left reeling as forecasts leap hundreds of percent
September 1, 2025 — Source
Software — DataBase — Resources
A practical comparison of Map-Reduce in MongoDB and RavenDB
Over the past week I've been learning about MongoDB. in my adventures with Node.js I am now at the point where I need some kind of data store.
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Access database repair
Access database repair tool for the recovery of corrupt databases in Microsoft Access 95, 97, 2000, 2002 (XP), 2003, 2007, 2010 and 2013. It recovers all data from a corrupt mdb, mde, accdb or accde database even in the hardest cases.
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Argentum Software
Argentum Corporation — Cataloging Software, Backup Software, Database Software.
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Convert MySQL to MSSQL
MS Access to MySQL converter tool safely converts the database tables or records with password protected records.
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Database DebunkIing
Site dedicated to dispelling fallacies and misconceptions prevailing in the database industry.
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Database Normalization and Table structures
Normalisation is the term used to describe how you break a file down into tables to create a database. There are 3 or 4 major steps involved known as 1NF (First Normal Form), 2NF (Second Normal Form), 3NF (Third Normal Form) and BCNF (Boyce-Codd Normal Form).
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Database Research at Waterloo
Research areas include traditional relational database systems, complex objects, geometric data, text, and real-time data.
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David Consulting Group
DCG services include software metrics, software process improvement and outsourcing.
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DecisionDatabases.com
DecisionDatabases.com is proficient in providing syndicated research report, customized research reports, company profiles and industry databases across multiple domains.
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Erlangen University Department of Database Systems
Research projects include data warehousing, scientific database management, workflow management, and distributed data.
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InfluxData
An open-source distributed time series database with no external dependencies.
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MySQL in Docker with Java Hibernate
Recently, I started working on a new server project at work, and wanted to be able to run a local dev environment with Docker. this has become my normal flow for a couple of server projects because of how easy Docker is to work with, and especially for the fact that I don't need to set up any of the supporting structure on my machine to run the server.
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TechnicalSharp
technical solution for you
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Temporal Database Concepts
Defines a wide range of terms and concepts specific to the temporal database research community.
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