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• September 26, 2024 26 Sep'24

  Cockroach Labs adds vector search, updates pricing options

  The database vendor's new update includes an integration with pgvector that provides users with the vector search capabilities needed to feed RAG pipelines and develop GenAI tools.

• September 24, 2024 24 Sep'24

  New Grafana Labs features aim to simplify observability

  The vendor's latest set of capabilities includes prebuilt applications and automated features aimed at making it easier to use observability tools to monitor data and IT processes.

• September 18, 2024 18 Sep'24

  Fivetran targets data security by adding Hybrid Deployment

  The vendor's new feature aims to aid organizations that deal with sensitive data by enabling them to manage pipelines from private clouds and on-premises environments.

• September 10, 2024 10 Sep'24

  Oracle keeps AI focus with database updates, new data lake

  Updates to HeatWave and Database 23ai, along with the introduction of Intelligent Data Lake, are all aimed at better enabling customers to develop artificial intelligence tools.

• September 09, 2024 09 Sep'24

  Exploding interest in GenAI makes AI governance a necessity

  With more employees of organizations now using artificial intelligence tools to inform business decisions, guidelines that ensure their safe and secure use are critical.

• September 04, 2024 04 Sep'24

  InfluxData targets performance, adds self-managed version

  The time series database specialist's update addresses performance to better handle complex real-time workloads and includes a new option for on-premises and private cloud users.

• September 03, 2024 03 Sep'24

  Couchbase launches database tools to foster AI development

  The vendor's new columnar capabilities and mobile-based vector search are aimed at helping customers access unstructured data to inform models and applications.

• August 28, 2024 28 Aug'24

  Cribl positions for IPO with $319M in latest funding round

  The observability specialist's latest financing, along with strong recurring revenue and customer growth, helps set the vendor up to go public pending further financial milestones.

• August 27, 2024 27 Aug'24

  Pinecone launches serverless vector database on Azure, GCP

  Serverless, first launched on AWS, is now available on all three major public clouds in a move aimed at enabling customers to control costs in the environment of their choice.

• August 22, 2024 22 Aug'24

  Collibra, Reltio integration targets discovery, governance

  The new partnership aims to provide joint customers with complementary capabilities to help them better find relevant data for analysis and manage their data assets.

• August 01, 2024 01 Aug'24

  New Snowflake service enables secure AI, ML deployment

  Snowpark Container Services aims to provide the vendor's users with a secure environment for deploying and managing models and applications without having to move their data.

• August 01, 2024 01 Aug'24

  New features make Google's Spanner a database for AI

  The introduction of graph processing, vector search and full-text search optimize Spanner for developing and managing modern applications and models, including GenAI.

• July 31, 2024 31 Jul'24

  Astronomer adds DBT Core support to data orchestration suite

  The vendor's latest Astro platform update integrates the open source transformation tool to help users better prepare information for analytics and AI models and applications.

• July 17, 2024 17 Jul'24

  Qlik launches Talend Cloud, aims to ensure data is trusted

  The longtime BI vendor's new integration platform aims to deliver trust in the information users work with to inform analytics and AI models and applications.

• July 11, 2024 11 Jul'24

  Oracle's new Exadata architecture targets efficiency, cost

  With Exascale, the tech giant aims to improve the efficiency of its relational database platform to handle GenAI workloads while dramatically reducing costs with new pricing.

• July 11, 2024 11 Jul'24

  Data quality specialist Soda secures $14M to fuel expansion

  The Europe-based vendor intends to use its latest funding to shift its growth focus to the U.S. while also continuing to invest in its AI-fueled observability platform.

• July 10, 2024 10 Jul'24

  Graph technology helps battle election misinformation

  Backed by a grant from Neo4j, including free use of its platform, Syracuse University is exposing coordinated networks that spread election misinformation on social media.

• July 02, 2024 02 Jul'24

  Databricks launches generative AI tools, including assistant

  The vendor's assistant and automatically generated metadata descriptions together enable users to work with data using natural language and receive accurate outputs in response.

• June 26, 2024 26 Jun'24

  SingleStore adds Iceberg integration, improved vector search

  The data platform vendor's latest update targets GenAI development by enabling easier access to unstructured data, making searches more efficient and optimizing cloud consumption.

• June 26, 2024 26 Jun'24

  Oracle launches HeatWave GenAI to fuel AI development

  The tech giant updated its database with new features aimed at simplifying model and application development cost-effectively, including in-database LLMs.

• June 20, 2024 20 Jun'24

  Actian goes to the edge with latest Zen database update

  The data management and analytics vendor's embeddable database now includes streaming capabilities via support for Kafka and faster query times that enable decisions in real time.

• June 17, 2024 17 Jun'24

  Reltio targets trusted data with GenAI, prebuilt tools

  The vendor's latest update adds new customer insight capabilities, including an AI assistant, and industry-specific tools all aimed at providing a trusted foundation for analysis.

• June 14, 2024 14 Jun'24

  Anomalo unveils quality monitoring for unstructured data

  The data quality specialist's capabilities will enable customers to monitor unstructured text to ensure the health of data used to inform analytics and AI models and applications.

• June 12, 2024 12 Jun'24

  New Databricks tools target AI quality, cost and security

  The vendor's latest features aim to help customers improve model accuracy by securely developing compound systems that include multiple language models and RAG pipelines.

• June 06, 2024 06 Jun'24

  Databricks $1B-plus Tabular acquisition adds Iceberg support

  The lakehouse specialist's latest purchase adds support for Apache Iceberg to its existing support for Delta Lake and is also a direct confrontation of rival Snowflake.

• June 04, 2024 04 Jun'24

  Snowflake demonstrates shift to AI with newest features

  After a slow start to building an environment for developing AI applications, the vendor unveils new features that show it is catching up to its peers.

• May 21, 2024 21 May'24

  Informatica adds AI assistant, GenAI development interface

  The longtime data management vendor's new capabilities simplify use of its platform, enabling nontechnical users to work with its tools and making experts more efficient.

• May 15, 2024 15 May'24

  DBT Labs unveils AI assistant, more tools to transform data

  The data transformation specialist's latest update includes new governance and metadata management capabilities as well as an AI-powered copilot for developer efficiency.

• May 13, 2024 13 May'24

  Alation adds automation to deal with exploding data volume

  The data catalog specialist's Workflow Automation provides customers with bots and prebuilt workflows that aid data stewardship by automating repetitive data management tasks.

• May 07, 2024 07 May'24

  Dremio adds text-to-SQL tool, new partnerships to fuel GenAI

  The latest update from the data lakehouse specialist includes text-to-SQL translation capabilities and new partnerships that help create an ecosystem for GenAI development.

• May 02, 2024 02 May'24

  MongoDB launches tools for developing generative AI apps

  The database vendor's new capabilities include Atlas Stream Processing to enable real-time model updates and Atlas Search Nodes to handle advanced analytics workloads.

• May 02, 2024 02 May'24

  Oracle adds vector search capabilities to database platform

  The tech giant's update features capabilities aimed at enabling users to operationalize unstructured data as well as bring AI to their data to avoid duplication and isolation.

• April 30, 2024 30 Apr'24

  TigerGraph unveils GenAI assistant, introduces new CEO

  Under the leadership of Hamid Azzawe, the graph database specialist's new copilot and platform update target new users beyond its historical base of academics and engineers.

• April 24, 2024 24 Apr'24

  AtScale adds semantic layer support for AI, GenAI models

  The vendor's new platform update centers around decision-making flexibility, collaboration and community, and includes a metadata hub along with support for advanced applications.

• April 10, 2024 10 Apr'24

  Collibra launches AI Governance, unveils GenAI capabilities

  The vendor's AI Governance suite enables users to ensure the quality and security of AI models while new GenAI features let them automate data quality and governance.

• April 04, 2024 04 Apr'24

  Coalesce raises $50M to expand data transformation platform

  The startup's new funding is a vote of confidence from investors given how difficult it has been for technology vendors to secure financing over the past two years.

• April 04, 2024 04 Apr'24

  Aerospike raises $114M to fuel database innovation for GenAI

  The vendor will use the funding to develop added vector search and storage capabilities as well as graph technology, both of which can be used to train generative AI models.

• April 01, 2024 01 Apr'24

  Vector search and storage key to AWS' database strategy

  The tech giant is prioritizing vector search and storage, adding the capabilities to its data storage tools so customers can use them with language models to build AI applications.

• March 19, 2024 19 Mar'24

  Confluent adds support for Apache Flink, unveils update

  The streaming specialist has added a managed service for the popular open source compute layer so customers can use the tools of their choice to develop a data ecosystem.

• March 19, 2024 19 Mar'24

  Redpanda serverless streaming option targets cost control

  The real-time data management specialist's new serverless platform enables customers to pay only for the compute power they use, which helps predict and manage spending.

• March 11, 2024 11 Mar'24

  Alation platform update targets building a data culture

  New business lineage and data discovery capabilities aimed at helping customers develop an enterprise-wide data culture are included in the data catalog specialist's latest update.

• March 05, 2024 05 Mar'24

  New Informatica governance suite automates data access

  The vendor's new suite of AI-powered capabilities manage access to an enterprise's proprietary information to help ensure security and compliance while enabling analysis.

• February 29, 2024 29 Feb'24

  Couchbase unveils vector search that extends to the edge

  The vendor's new capabilities will enable users to feed and train AI models, and through an embeddable version of its database extend to edge devices for real-time insight.

• February 29, 2024 29 Feb'24

  Collibra adds AI governance to data management platform

  The data management vendor's new suite adds capabilities aimed at enabling enterprises to safely and securely use AI the same way data governance frameworks apply to data.

• February 28, 2024 28 Feb'24

  Alation broadens ecosystem with spate of new integrations

  The data catalog specialist is adding integrations with Amazon DynamoDB, MongoDB and Apache Kafka -- among others -- to broaden the connectivity of its data ecosystem.

• February 26, 2024 26 Feb'24

  Exasol gets jolt of AI with Espresso suite of capabilities

  The analytics database vendor's trio of new AI capabilities, including the ability to pull in GenAI models, aims to improve the efficiency of decision-making.

• February 13, 2024 13 Feb'24

  Alation launches benchmark tool to assess data maturity

  The data catalog specialist's new tool examines four key criteria, including literacy and governance, in assessing an organization's business intelligence culture.

• February 08, 2024 08 Feb'24

  Effective integration key to creating trusted data

  Pipelines and platforms capable of managing volume and combining information from disparate sources in real time are key to the agile decision-making needs of modern organizations.

• February 06, 2024 06 Feb'24

  New Acceldata co-pilot targets efficiency, broader use

  The data observability specialist's new generative AI-powered capabilities are designed to help experts be more efficient as well as enable non-technical users to work with data.

• January 31, 2024 31 Jan'24

  Rockset targets cost control with latest database update

  The real-time database specialist added new compute power optimization and workload autoscaling capabilities to help customers better control their cloud computing costs.

• January 26, 2024 26 Jan'24

  Rise of generative AI heightens need for data quality

  Good information has always been key to fuel good decisions, but with LLMs prone to hallucinations, it's critical that the models be trained with intelligence that can be trusted.

• January 24, 2024 24 Jan'24

  SingleStore update adds new tools to fuel GenAI, analytics

  The database vendor unveiled Pro Max, a rebranded version of its platform that includes new vector search and change data capture capabilities that enable AI and BI at scale.

• January 23, 2024 23 Jan'24

  Databricks lakehouse a key tool for champion Texas Rangers

  The Rangers relied on the data management vendor's tools to develop metrics that led to key personnel and strategic decisions that helped Texas win its first World Series.

• January 18, 2024 18 Jan'24

  Ascend.io, DBT integration targets cost control, efficiency

  The partnership aims to address the difficulty of efficiently and inexpensively deploying and managing data models developed in DBT by automating previously manual processes.

• January 17, 2024 17 Jan'24

  Pinecone unveils serverless vector database, targets costs

  The vendor's new tool is designed to help customers control their cloud computing costs while developing and maintaining generative AI applications and models.

• January 17, 2024 17 Jan'24

  Databricks launches platform for the telecom industry

  The data lakehouse vendor's latest industry-specific set of tools is aimed at telecommunications providers that features a GenAI chatbot and customized analytics capabilities.

• December 27, 2023 27 Dec'23

  Vector search now a critical component of GenAI development

  The feature's ability to make unstructured data discoverable as well as locate similar data points among potentially billions make it ideal for helping train generative AI models.

• December 20, 2023 20 Dec'23

  Qlik's Mozaic acquisition adds decentralized data management

  The longtime analytics vendor continues to expand into data management, now adding capabilities that enable a decentralized approach and an emphasis on data products.

• December 19, 2023 19 Dec'23

  Snowflake acquisition of Samooha adds data clean room tools

  The data cloud vendor's purchase aims to give users a way to share data with partners and collaborate on decisions without compromising data privacy and security.

• December 08, 2023 08 Dec'23

  Databricks intros suite to aid generative AI development

  The data lakehouse vendor's new set of tools includes vector search and aims to enable users to develop data pipelines that train language models with proprietary data.

• December 06, 2023 06 Dec'23

  New MongoDB tools enable generative AI development

  The independent database vendor added vector search and workload management tools that work together to enable developers to build and run cutting-edge analytics applications.

• November 29, 2023 29 Nov'23

  New AWS tools simplify access, management of data at scale

  The tech giant revealed serverless tools that eliminate limitations on workload size as well as integrations that simplify access to data within the Amazon Web Services ecosystem.

• November 28, 2023 28 Nov'23

  Starburst update adds new GenAI, streaming data features

  Galaxy, the cloud-based version of the vendor's platform, now includes text-to-code translation capabilities as well as automated governance and real-time ingestion tools.

• November 21, 2023 21 Nov'23

  American Airlines lowers data management costs with Intel

  As the airline giant moves more of its data workloads to the cloud, tools from Intel's Granulate are making platforms such as Microsoft's Azure Data Lake more efficient.

• November 17, 2023 17 Nov'23

  Databricks puts AI at core of new Data Intelligence Platform

  The vendor's new platform, now in beta testing, combines its existing lakehouse with AI to better enable users to manage and prepare data for model training and analytics.

• November 15, 2023 15 Nov'23

  IBI launches new full-featured data management platform

  The data management and BI specialist has released Data Intelligence, an AI-driven suite that includes data quality and data integration capabilities in an integrated environment.

• November 09, 2023 09 Nov'23

  MongoDB unveils Atlas for Retail, Partner Ecosystem Catalog

  The database vendor is making industry verticalization a significant part of its product roadmap to help customers in various industries develop applications that meet their needs.

• November 08, 2023 08 Nov'23

  Monte Carlo unveils data observability for vector databases

  The vendor's new integration with vector database specialist Pinecone is designed to enable users to ensure quality of the data they use to train generative AI models.

• November 03, 2023 03 Nov'23

  Generative AI capabilities highlight latest Denodo update

  The data virtualization specialist's platform update includes natural language processing capabilities that reduce repetitive tasks as well as some complexities of data management.

• October 31, 2023 31 Oct'23

  TigerGraph update adds enterprise-scale capabilities

  The graph database vendor's platform now features improved workload management capabilities and support for Kubernetes to meet the data processing needs of large organizations.

• October 25, 2023 25 Oct'23

  Alation adds trio of partnerships to improve data insight

  The data catalog vendor's connectors to Monte Carlo, Sigma Computing and ThoughtSpot aim to make it easier for users to get insights from data to inform decisions and actions.

• October 25, 2023 25 Oct'23

  Neo4j updates graph database to improve performance speed

  The vendor's latest update includes new parallel analytical query and transactional query runtime capabilities as well as automated real-time data tracking via change data capture.

• October 23, 2023 23 Oct'23

  Databricks' $100m acquisition of Arcion adds data ingestion

  The data lakehouse specialist's latest purchase adds native data ingestion capabilities that will help users stream data in real time to inform AI and machine learning models.

• October 17, 2023 17 Oct'23

  Alluxio launches orchestration layer optimized for AI, ML

  The data orchestration specialist introduced Enterprise AI, a new version of its platform optimized for AI and machine learning models with improved performance and greater scale.

• October 17, 2023 17 Oct'23

  SingleStore unveils features aimed at enabling real-time AI

  The database vendor's new vector search capabilities, compute layer and integrations are all designed to enable customers to build and deploy real-time generative AI models.

• October 11, 2023 11 Oct'23

  Data catalog expert Alation unveils genAI, benchmark tools

  Analytics Cloud enables users to measure the maturity of their data management and analytics operations while new generative AI tools address the efficiency of data workers.

• October 06, 2023 06 Oct'23

  Amazon launches DataZone, a new data management service

  The tech giant's new service provides data governance, collaboration and catalog capabilities that enable organizations to find and operationalize data to inform decisions.

• October 04, 2023 04 Oct'23

  Databricks improves support for generative AI models

  A new service enables users to easily deploy privately built language models and uses a GPU-based architecture to optimize and manage the models once on the lakehouse platform.

• October 03, 2023 03 Oct'23

  New Boomi AI tool enables natural language data integration

  The iPaaS vendor's new capabilities are aimed at increasing efficiency by enabling customers to build pipelines and manage data using natural language rather than code.

• September 26, 2023 26 Sep'23

  Acceldata makes acquisition to improve AI, LLM observability

  The acquisition will give users more visibility into generative AI and LLM pipelines in addition to the traditional data pipelines already served by the vendor.

• September 26, 2023 26 Sep'23

  MongoDB reveals new generative AI, vector search tools

  After unveiling an integration with Google's LLM suite in June, the vendor moved a set of NLP tools into preview and introduced new data migration and vector search capabilities.

• September 14, 2023 14 Sep'23

  Databricks lands $500M in new funding, now valued at $43B

  The data lakehouse pioneer recently acquired MosaicML for $1.3 billion and could use the new capital to finance acquisitions and further investment in generative AI.

• September 14, 2023 14 Sep'23

  Dremio launches updated SQL query acceleration capabilities

  The data lakehouse specialist's new version of its SQL query acceleration tool, Reflections, includes automated recommendations and automatic data refresh capabilities.

• September 13, 2023 13 Sep'23

  Denodo secures $336M equity investment to fuel growth

  The data virtualization specialist plans to use the funds to drive expansion, including R&D efforts for generative AI and data governance as well as geographic growth.

• September 12, 2023 12 Sep'23

  Einstein 1 Data Cloud fuels Salesforce's AI, analytics

  The CRM giant's new metadata management layer is capable of processing more data than previous versions to better enable customers' artificial intelligence and analytics needs.

• September 06, 2023 06 Sep'23

  InfluxData launches new database for self-managed users

  The time series database vendor completed the InfluxDB 3.0 product line with the release of InfluxDB Clustered, a version tailored for private cloud and on-premises deployments.

• August 30, 2023 30 Aug'23

  Couchbase intros generative AI feature for its Capella DBaaS

  The database vendor's new tool -- now in private preview -- uses LLM technology to make application developers more efficient by helping them more easily generate code.

• August 24, 2023 24 Aug'23

  Neo4j adds vector search to improve generative AI outputs

  The graph database vendor aims to improve semantic search and generative AI applications by enabling customers to better access and use unstructured data such as text and images.

• August 03, 2023 03 Aug'23

  SnapLogic launches generative AI tool for data integration

  The vendor released SnapGPT, a generative AI tool that lets data engineers more efficiently develop data pipelines by using natural language. An early user is Barnard College.

• July 28, 2023 28 Jul'23

  Beyond generative AI, data quality a data management trend

  Vendors and users have mostly focused on generative AI so far in 2023, but observability to ensure quality and governance also remain key to successful pipelines for analytics.

• July 24, 2023 24 Jul'23

  Oracle targets speed with launch of MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse

  The tech giant's new lakehouse enables users of its database management suite to combine structured and unstructured data to develop a more complete view of their operations.

• July 19, 2023 19 Jul'23

  Lakehouse architecture the best fit for modern data needs

  While data warehouses and data lakes each excel at handling certain types of data, a hybrid of the two is the best means of handling the increasing complexity of data management.

• July 18, 2023 18 Jul'23

  Confluent partner plan aids streaming data platform delivery

  The vendor's Connect With Confluent program enables technology partners to deliver event data to end users in real time through integrations with Confluent Cloud.

• July 07, 2023 07 Jul'23

  Dremio names former Splunk executive new CEO

  The former Splunk executive takes over as the data lakehouse vendor's leader, aiming to raise the company's profile to demonstrate its capabilities and compete for market share.

• June 28, 2023 28 Jun'23

  Databricks introduces Delta Lake 3.0 to help unify data

  As part of the open source community developing the data storage platform, the vendor unveiled the platform's latest iteration with data unification the main goal of the update.

• June 22, 2023 22 Jun'23

  MongoDB unveils new AI, migration tools for database

  The vendor, with its latest slate of new and updated capabilities, is adding generative AI with its partnership with Google Cloud and launching a new data migration tool.

• June 20, 2023 20 Jun'23

  Starburst Galaxy update targets governance, data access

  The vendor's latest update includes the public preview of Gravity, a centralized access and governance layer that enables users to better control and connect data across clouds.

• June 16, 2023 16 Jun'23

  Dremio adds first generative AI-infused tool, intros others

  The vendor's initial generative AI-infused tool is Text-to-SQL, which enables customers to work with data using natural language that automatically gets translated to code.

• June 15, 2023 15 Jun'23

  Monte Carlo boosts data observability with generative AI

  The vendor unveiled tools aimed at improving engineering efficiency, one enabling data engineers to more easily fix code and another enabling code generation with natural language.

• June 14, 2023 14 Jun'23

  Informatica adds data governance with Privitar acquisition

  By acquiring the access control specialist, the data management vendor hopes to better enable users to ensure data security amid the growing complexity of their data operations.