Databases

AI memory is really a database problem

If we want to avoid making AI agents a huge new attack surface, we’ve got to treat agent memory the way we treat databases: with firewalls, audits, and access privileges.

By Matt Asay

Dec 8, 20259 mins

Artificial IntelligenceDatabasesGenerative AI

Building a scalable document management system: Lessons from separating metadata and content

By Prasanna Kumar Ramachandran

Nov 19, 202510 mins

DatabasesDocument DatabasesNoSQL Databases

The dawn of the AI-native database

By Yasmeen Ahmad

Nov 11, 20259 mins

Artificial IntelligenceDatabasesGenerative AI

Google adds tiered storage to NoSQL Bigtable to reduce complexity, costs

By Anirban Ghoshal

Oct 30, 20253 mins

DatabasesNoSQL Databases

Maximizing speed: How continuous batching unlocks unprecedented LLM throughput

By Raul Leite

Oct 27, 20256 mins

Artificial IntelligenceDatabasesGenerative AI

Articles

AWS DNS error hits DynamoDB, causing problems for multiple services and customers

DynamoDB error rates in the US-EAST-1 region soared shortly after midnight Pacific Time, rippling through other AWS services and affecting many customers.

By Peter Sayer

Oct 20, 2025 3 mins

Amazon Web ServicesDatabasesIaaS

Oracle targets agentic use cases with AI Database 26ai

The latest version of the Oracle database comes with agent builders and MCP Server integration to help developers embed automation into their workflows.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Oct 14, 2025 4 mins

Artificial IntelligenceData ManagementDatabases

Optimizing queries by using observability

Want faster, smarter queries? Observability gives engineers the visibility to tune performance before users ever notice a slowdown.

By Neel Shah

Oct 6, 2025 4 mins

DatabasesJavaSQL

Using Microsoft’s Data API builder for Azure databases

Microsoft’s declarative REST and GraphQL API design tool supports MySQL and Postgres as well as Azure databases and works anywhere you can run a Docker container.

By Simon Bisson

Oct 2, 2025 8 mins

APIsDatabasesMicrosoft Azure

The best new features in Postgres 18

Asynchronous I/O, OAuth authentication, expanded SQL standards support, and new extension capabilities give developers faster performance, stronger security, and greater flexibility.

By Tom Kincaid

Sep 25, 2025 6 mins

AnalyticsData ManagementDatabases

Do vector-native databases beat add-ons for AI applications?

Even though traditional databases now support vector types, vector-native databases have the edge for AI development. Here’s how to choose.

By Bill Doerrfeld

Sep 22, 2025 10 mins

AnalyticsDatabasesGenerative AI

MongoDB adds vector search to self-managed editions to power generative AI apps

With vector search now available in Enterprise Server and Community Edition, enterprises can streamline AI development and reduce operational overhead by avoiding fragmented stacks and external search engines.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Sep 17, 2025 3 mins

Databases

MongoDB launches a new application modernization platform

The modernization platform will look at converting both legacy databases and code, the company said.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Sep 16, 2025 4 mins

Databases

More hardware won’t fix bad engineering

Engineering fundamentals aren’t just for computer science students. They pay huge dividends in both your systems’ service levels and your company’s balance sheet.

By Matt Asay

Sep 15, 2025 6 mins

Critical InfrastructureDatabasesTechnology Industry

Unlocking LLM superpowers: How PagedAttention helps the memory maze

LLMs are memory hogs, but PagedAttention fixes that, making AI apps faster, cheaper and way more efficient.

By Raul Leite

Sep 11, 2025 5 mins

Artificial IntelligenceDatabasesGenerative AI

13 reasons SQL has got to go

Why is the language developers and DBAs use to organize data such a mess? Here are 13 reasons we wish we could quit SQL, even though we probably won't.

By Peter Wayner

Sep 8, 2025 12 mins

Data ManagementDatabasesSQL