Data Modeling Articles
What if you could free up 1% of your day? Would one small improvement make a difference in the life of your business?With Oracle Autonomous Database even the smallest tweaks in efficiency (powered by data) can lead to huge advancements. At Quest's BLUEPRINT 4D Conference in May 2023, Sean Stacey, director of database product development at Oracle, shared how Oracle Autonomous Database can complete and simplify your data management.
Posted October 12, 2023
Database performance can be a complex and difficult task, but there are some high-level maxims that can help to simplify optimizing the performance of your databases and applications. Let's look at some of these guiding rules of thumb. You should always keep in mind the business objectives of the databases and applications you manage. It is wise to manage performance based on the expectations and budget of the business users.
Posted October 12, 2023
Many people seem to become filled with anxiety over the word "normalization." Mentioning the word causes folks to slowly back away toward the exits. Why? What might have caused this data modeling phobia? Do people have images flashing through their minds of data modelers running around wearing a hockey mask and carrying a chainsaw screaming, "Give me your primary keys"? I hope not.
Posted October 12, 2023
The newest addition to Informer 5.8 is Templates and it represents a significant evolution in how users interact with and extract value from their data. With Templates, the process of transforming raw data into visually appealing and tailored outputs becomes effortless, according to Entrinsik.
Posted October 12, 2023
Market research, strategic planning, research and development (R&D), and proactively researching and strategizing for the future are commonplace components of business operations. The exception is the case of governance teams who are far too often recipients of, rather than participants in, strategic planning. As a result, existing policies and practices quickly stagnate or deviate from current usage.
Posted October 10, 2023
The "big data" world is pervasive—to the point in which every organization is now a big data organization. As AI, machine learning, and other high-end analytics become mainstream parts of business operations, new ways of handling data assets are coming to the fore. Industry leaders and experts recently shared their views with Big Data Quarterly on the latest technology developments shaping today's big data world.
Posted October 10, 2023
Data models allow for the expression of a great deal of clarity and precision—when the data modeler chooses to allow for it. Many designers seem to work in "sloppy" or "imprecise" mode. Entities are defined containing many nulls allowed attributes. Certainly, if in the existing situation the source data is so dirty that every defined attribute "should" apply, but randomly things are not passed on, then yes, the data model is accurate. However, if the condition is such that the object has many very similar sub-objects, and various combinations of attributes must be populated based on which sub-type is being instantiated, then the data model is not expressing those rules very well.
Posted October 09, 2023
Retool, the leading development platform for business software, is launching the GA of Retool Workflows, a building block-based automation tool engineered to help developers accelerate their business processes.
Posted October 06, 2023
Docker is partnering with Neo4j, LangChain, and Ollama to create a new GenAI Stack designed to help developers get a running start with generative AI applications. Eliminating the need to search for and cobble together and configure technologies from different sources, the GenAI Stack is pre-configured, ready-to-code, and secure with large language models (LLMs) from Ollama, vector and graph databases from Neo4j, and the LangChain framework. Docker also announced its first AI-powered product, Docker AI.
Posted October 06, 2023
Akeneo, the Product Experience (PX) Company and provider of product information management (PIM) solutions, is acquiring Unifai, an artificial intelligence (AI) platform for data collection, cleansing, categorization, and enrichment pioneered by leading experts in AI and machine learning (ML).
Posted October 04, 2023
Dataiku, the platform for Everyday AI, is unveiling the LLM Mesh, addressing the need for an effective, scalable, and secure platform for integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) in the enterprise. In addition, Dataiku is partnering with Snowflake, Pinecone, and AI21 Labs on LLM Mesh and its features represent several of the key components of the LLM Mesh: containerized data and compute capabilities, vector databases, and LLM builders.
Posted October 03, 2023
Cloudflare, Inc., the company helping to build a better internet, is introducing a new platform—accompanied by high performance at scale, a new vector database, and observability capabilities—that will enable developers to build full-stack AI applications on Cloudflare's network. Dubbed Workers AI, this solution offers fast and affordable inference without the need to manage infrastructure, driving increased productivity for shipping out production-ready, fast, and secure applications.
Posted October 02, 2023
Timescale, the cloud database company, is debuting Timescale Vector, a robust platform for building production AI applications at scale with PostgreSQL. Developed as a response to the ever-evolving nature of AI, Timescale Vector manages relational data, vector embeddings, time-series data, analytics, and event data from a single platform.
Posted September 29, 2023
Innovators at ArangoDB joined DBTA's webinar, Unleash the Future of Data Management: Transitioning from Legacy Graphs to a Modern, Complete, and Scalable Solution, to expose the way graph technology has been transformed by ArangoDB, debunking data management myths and addressing various tech challenges.
Posted September 28, 2023
Experts from Quest joined DBTA's webinar, From Oracle to Postgres: Some Modern Database Architectures & Seamless Transitions, to discuss the latest of Quest's Postgres-based offerings finding considerable success in a post-Oracle world.
Posted September 27, 2023
The role of the database administrator (DBA) has always been crucial to ensuring that databases are properly organized, secured, and optimized. But recent years have seen many significant changes in the field of database administration. Before talking about how it is changing, let's start by defining it. Database administration (or DBA) refers to the set of tasks and processes involved in managing and maintaining database systems (and the applications and users that access them). This includes everything from designing and creating databases to deploying, monitoring, and securing data across the enterprise.
Posted September 27, 2023
Pliable, an AI-powered SaaS platform that simplifies organizing and leveraging data without an engineer, is coming out of stealth with a $2.5 million seed round led by Resolute Ventures, enabling the company to expand its team and platform to create a single source of truth for anyone to streamline their data processes.
Posted September 25, 2023
Dan DeMers, CEO of Cinchy, and Frank Liu, head of AI and ML at Zilliz, joined DBTA's webinar, Unlocking the Power of Real-Time, AI and ML, to guide viewers through strategies and technologies for successful modernization which ultimately enable organizations to cater to the needs of modern data while overcoming its various challenges.
Posted September 22, 2023
Cisco announced it's acquiring Splunk, the cybersecurity and observability leader, building on Splunk's heritage of helping organizations enhance their digital resilience and will accelerate Cisco's strategy to securely connect everything to make anything possible.
Posted September 22, 2023
TruEra is releasing TruEra AI Observability, a full-lifecycle AI observability solution providing monitoring, debugging, and testing for ML models in a single SaaS offering along with covering both generative and traditional (discriminative) ML models. According to the company, the solution is aimed to meet customer needs for observability across their full portfolio of AI applications, as interest in developing and monitoring LLM-based apps accelerates.
Posted September 21, 2023
Kinetica, the speed layer for generative AI and real-time analytics, is integrating with a native large language model (LLM) that enables consumers to use natural language to perform ad-hoc analysis on real-time, structured data, centered around security.
Posted September 19, 2023
KX, a provider of vector and time-series data management, is releasing KDB.AI Cloud, a vector database for real-time contextual AI designed with a commitment to provide a superior developer experience. Unique among vector databases, KDB.AI Cloud enables developers to bring temporal and semantic context and relevancy to their AI-powered application, according to the company.
Posted September 14, 2023
The dramatic advances in generational AI—chatGPT in particular—have motivated almost all technology companies to find an AI story that can break through the heavily AI-oriented technology news feeds. It can be hard for database companies to tell an AI story. While most AI is data-driven and therefore dependent on database technology, advances in database technology have not in themselves driven advances in AI, and AI has generally not yet revolutionized database technology.
Posted September 14, 2023
As the world slowly transitions to a post-covid landscape, organizations are looking at what the "new normal" is shaping up to be. To support organizations in navigating through new challenges and a rapidly evolving big data ecosystem, Big Data Quarterly presents 2023's "Big Data 75," a list of companies driving innovation and expanding what is possible in terms of collecting, storing, and extracting value from data.
Posted September 13, 2023
Denodo is receiving a $336 million investment by TPG, underscoring the strength of Denodo's solutions, growth, and potential in the data management space. TPG's investment in Denodo will help to further strengthen Denodo's balance sheet and accelerate the company's market initiatives on a global scale. With more than 300 companies in its portfolio, headquartered across 30 different countries, TPG brings deep expertise in the software business and a long trajectory of researching and building relationships to help drive transformational growth, according to Denodo.
Posted September 13, 2023
JFrog, the Liquid Software company and creators of the JFrog Software Supply Chain Platform, is announcing a myriad of new capabilities—ranging from machine learning (ML) management to DevOps-centric security and automation—that will be added to its platform.
Posted September 13, 2023
Sentra, the cloud data security leader, is announcing the integration of large language models (LLMs) into its data classification engine, re-envisioning data security as even more proactive, contextual, and visible. The addition of LLMs into Sentra's data classification engine enables enterprises to preventively reduce the data attack surface—no matter where it exists in the multi-cloud—through a variety of new capabilities.
Posted September 12, 2023
Unisphere and DBTA, in partnership with Radiant Advisors, gathered real-world experts to discuss and evaluate popular data architecture plans in DBTA's recent webinar, 2023 Modern Data Architecture Trends: New Market Research and Guidance, using its latest market study on these innovative strategies and technologies.
Posted September 11, 2023
BMC, a global leader in software solutions for the Autonomous Digital Enterprise, released findings from its 18th annual mainframe survey, further reinforcing the value of the mainframe and its continued growth as a platform. According to BMC, a newfound appreciation for the mainframe's resilience and scalability emerged from the heavy reliance on technology through the shifting digital landscape resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Posted September 11, 2023
Experts from Redis, Quest, and BMC joined DBTA's webinar, Achieving Greater Agility: Emerging Trends in Data Management and DevOps, to explore the ways in which enterprises are successfully adopting and leveraging DevOps and data management in tandem, particularly in the case of utilizing cloud native apps, microservices, and containerization.
Posted September 11, 2023
Nutanix, the hybrid multi-cloud computing company, is announcing the Nutanix GPT-in-a-Box, a full-stack software-defined AI-ready platform that accelerates AI and machine learning (ML) innovation in the enterprise.
Posted September 06, 2023
Cloud computing has revolutionized the way businesses operate and has fundamentally changed the role of database administrators (DBAs). Traditionally, DBAs have been responsible for the installation, maintenance, and management of on-prem databases. However, in the age of cloud computing, DBAs are required to adapt to new technologies, methodologies, and tools.
Posted September 06, 2023
Couchbase, the cloud database platform company, is unveiling several enhancements for its Database-as-a-Service, Couchbase Capella, as well as innovations for the overall Couchbase ecosystem. Introducing generative AI (genAI) capabilities to Capella—as well as a series of developer experience improvements—and the Couchbase AI Accelerate Partner Program catapults Couchbase into the bustling world of AI.
Posted September 01, 2023
Rockset, the search and analytics company, is announcing its recent funding milestone—raising $44 million for a total capital of $105 million—which will be used to expand the company's efforts in supporting the build of AI, search, and analytics applications.
Posted August 31, 2023
Sida Shen, product marketing manager at CelerData, joined DBTA's webinar, Go Pipeline-Free With Real-Time Analytics, to explore how to build pipeline-free platforms with open source software, regardless of experience level, while still delivering real-time analytics.
Posted August 31, 2023
Earthly Technologies, the company behind the open source developer tool Earthly, is releasing a free tier of its software-as-a-service (SaaS) build automation platform, Earthly Cloud. This new, free offering provides developers with 6,000 minutes per month of Earthly Cloud's consistent, fast continuous integration (CI) and remote build runners that are compatible with any CI system, according to the vendor.
Posted August 31, 2023
Deloitte—through a joint innovation initiative with Google Cloud—is introducing its ConvergeCONSUMER portfolio of solutions to Google Cloud, integrating its business intelligence (BI) capabilities with Google Cloud's data analytics, AI, and generative AI technologies.
Posted August 30, 2023
NinjaOne, a modern, cloud-native IT management platform for managed service providers (MSPs) and IT departments, is advancing its platform with new automation capabilities, along with providing more visibility into over five million devices used by its customers worldwide.
Posted August 30, 2023
Neo4j, the graph database and analytics company, is announcing that it has integrated native vector search into its core database capabilities, introducing massive support for the ever-popular and -growing world of generative AI, semantic search, and LLMs.
Posted August 28, 2023
Rambus Inc., a premier chip and silicon IP provider making data faster and safer, is introducing a suite of Security IP solutions for the FPGA market with state-of-the-art cryptographic, side-channel, and Quantum Safe protections. According to the company, designed to meet the unique needs of FPGAs, the offering secures the broad range of devices from high-performance accelerators for generative AI, to low-power solutions for IoT devices. Rambus security IP protects FPGAs serving applications in the data center, AI/ML, edge, IoT, defense, and beyond.
Posted August 28, 2023
IBM is introducing watsonx Code Assistant for Z, a new generative AI-assisted product that will help enable faster translation of COBOL to Java on IBM Z and enhance developer productivity on the platform. According to IBM, this product will be generally available in Q4 2023, and is being designed to help accelerate COBOL application modernization. Watsonx Code Assistant for Z will preview during TechXchange, IBM's premier technical learning event in Las Vegas, Sept 11-13.
Posted August 28, 2023