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 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 ...

Backed by Lux Capital, SkyPilot helps customers use GPUs wherever they're available.

Databricks Inc. is reportedly seeking to buy Neon Inc., a startup that sells a commercial version of the open-source PostgreSQL database. Tech publication Upstarts Media today cited sources as saying ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At Data + AI Summit, Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi unveiled LTAP, a new architecture that collapses the 40-year unification problem of OLTP and OLAP databases.

Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced an expansion of their companies’ partnership at the Databricks Data and AI Summit. 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: ...