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AI is capturing the market in the startup space in 2026, with Crunchbase reporting that AI landed 80% of venture dollars. That means $242 billion went to AI startups and four of the five largest venture capital rounds in history closed in Q1 of 2026. Startups continue to emerge that bring fresh approaches to accelerating digital transformation, expanding what's possible with AI and analytics, breaking down silos, enhancing security, improving data observability, introducing new types of databases, maintaining data at the edge, advancing Web3, and more. Here are 30 startups DBTA thinks are worth watching in 2026.
Posted April 15, 2026
It's time to vote for the annual Database Trends and Applications Readers' Choice Awards, a competition in which the winning information management solutions, products, and services are selected by you, the readers. The voting period will be open through May 22.
Posted April 10, 2026
Artificial intelligence has shifted from an emerging technology to a core component of modern data ecosystems. For data and database professionals, AI now powers analytics platforms, cloud services, automation tools, and development workflows. This rapid integration is transforming how teams operate—accelerating productivity while raising new expectations around governance, ethics, and strategic alignment.
Posted April 09, 2026
Data Summit 2026 is rapidly approaching on May 6 - 7 in Boston, with pre-conference workshops on May 5, delivering a high-impact learning experience for data and AI professionals at every level. Attendees will gain practical strategies and forward-looking perspectives from industry leaders who are addressing the challenges and opportunities shaping the future of data. DBTA recently spoke to John O'Brien, program chair for the event and principal advisor, industry analyst at Radiant Advisors, about what to expect at this year's event.
Posted April 08, 2026
For modern enterprises, regulatory compliance means financial management, data protection, AI governance, sustainability, resilience, and more. It calls for a tight grip on data to meet regulatory requirements, report efficiently, avoid disruption to business, and satisfy customers. Leaders build trust with regulators and customers through ethical and transparent practices.
Posted April 06, 2026
Modern semantic search does not have to require a separate vector database. Data architects, database engineers, developers, or platform leaders can integrate Vertex AI and Cloud SQL vector indexes directly into their existing MySQL workflow.
Posted April 03, 2026
Aerospike Inc. is introducing LangGraph integration for NoSQL Database 8, delivering persistent memory to stateless AI agentic workflows struggling to move from prototype to production scale.
Posted April 03, 2026
AWS is announcing the general availability of a new express configuration for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, a streamlined database creation experience with preconfigured defaults designed to help users get started in seconds.
Posted March 31, 2026
Fivetran, the global leader in data movement, announced it is donating SQLMesh, its open source data transformation framework, to the Linux Foundation to support a community-governed approach to developing and maintaining SQLMesh as part of the modern data stack.
Posted March 30, 2026
Many longtime MySQL contributors, engineers, and ecosystem leaders are coming together to voice support for establishing a vendor-neutral foundation for the MySQL ecosystem. In an open letter to Oracle, these experts urge the formation of a vendor-neutral, nonprofit foundation for MySQL that would serve as a shared home for the ecosystem, independent of any single company's commercial interests.
Posted March 23, 2026
Success now depends on achieving the right balance between automation and human expertise—maintaining governance without sacrificing agility and ensuring security at scale. As data ecosystems stretch across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, DBA teams must step up by embracing new tools, expanding their scope, and driving the shift toward intelligent, proactive, and cost-efficient data operations.
Posted March 13, 2026
When organizations think about green IT, they usually consider data center efficiency, server consolidation, or cloud energy metrics. And yes, those are important areas, but they overlook one of the biggest contributors to an organization's energy footprint: its data architecture. Every table, index, column, backup, replication stream, and query consumes resources, and therefore energy. Poor data design doesn't just slow performance or inflate costs, it also increases the organization's environmental footprint.
Posted March 12, 2026
AI-assisted tools are now integrated across the delivery lifecycle—accelerating code generation, improving test coverage, and enhancing observability and incident response. As AI transforms how software is built, deployed, and operated, DevOps is evolving through targeted, intelligent automation.
Posted March 09, 2026
The evolution of data architecture is accelerating. In 2025, 85% of DBTA subscribers reported plans to modernize their data platforms—driven largely by the explosive rise of GenAI and large language models. Modernization has shifted from a strategic advantage to a business necessity. To power AI-driven innovation, organizations need intelligent, interconnected data platforms that unify information, enable real-time insights and scale with agility.
Posted March 02, 2026
As organizations scale their AI and analytics efforts, a data architecture that is "up to snuff" is even more critical to business success. Data teams are being asked to deliver faster insights, stronger governance, and AI-ready data, all while keeping costs and complexity in check.
Posted February 23, 2026
LicenseFortress, a global leader in independent software asset management (SAM) and licensing optimization, announced a new milestone—the company has been awarded its 2025 Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 83.3%, as independently validated by ClearlyRated.
Posted February 20, 2026
Submissions for nominations are now open for the annual Database Trends and Applications Readers' Choice Awards, a competition in which the winning information management solutions, products, and services are selected by you, the users. The nominations period has been extended through March 20, 2026, and will be followed by actual voting on the products nominated by our readers.
Posted February 06, 2026
What's ahead for data analytics during the next 12, 24, or even 36 months? This area of business technology has seen sweeping changes in recent times, largely thanks to the rise of accessible AI. And with it, there has been a concerted movement toward integrating the tools and platforms that deliver and support analytical applications—be they predictive, AI, or pattern matching.
Posted January 21, 2026
In the year ahead, there will be signs of significant transformation at data sites. AI is the driver of change, of course, but it goes deeper, promising to reshape operations, security, customer interaction data, and a host of other functions. To explore the possibilities, we canvassed leaders across the industry on the changes they see ahead in the data world.
Posted January 08, 2026
As AI continues to dominate the technology landscape, the data underlying the information these artificial intelligence solutions train on is under more scrutiny than ever. Here, data professionals share their big data and database/infrastructure predictions for 2026.
Posted December 03, 2025
After a banner year for the "promise of progress" on AI ambitions, deepening CX fatigue, and ongoing economic volatility, Forrester is predicting 2026 will bring a year of reckoning. According to Sharyn Leaver, chief research officer at Forrester, "Navigating the coming year will take some mindset shifts: from lofty ambition to pragmatism, from experimentation to accountability, from surface-level engagement to meaningful connection." To help make the process of identifying useful products and services easier, each year, DBTA presents a list of Trend-Setting Products, highlighting a commitment to innovation and efforts to provide organizations with tools to address changing market requirements.
Posted December 03, 2025
From the U.S. government letting CISA briefly lapse to recent "internet-breaking" updates sent out by various companies that form the backbone of web infrastructure, cybersecurity and resilience is more important than ever. Here, security experts share their predictions for incoming threats, security measures, and more in 2026.
Posted November 24, 2025
There is a growing urgency to adopt cloud services to buttress today's rapidly growing inventories of high-end analytic and AI applications. This is fueled by massive volumes of data that are spilling over the capacities and capabilities of on-prem systems. It works the other way, as well: AI is paving the way for more robust cloud services, offering ever-expanding real-time automated provisioning and scalability.
Posted October 09, 2025
The amount of data and its complexity has been growing at a rapid clip and shows no sign of stopping. To contain this data, organizations have been introducing different types of database platforms alongside relational solutions. To help organizations progress along their data-driven journeys, each year, DBTA presents the Readers' Choice Awards, which provide the opportunity to recognize companies whose products have been selected by the experts—our readers!
Posted August 06, 2025
Redgate Software is launching Redgate pgNow Community and Redgate pgCompare Community, two new tools that provide Redgate's database DevOps capabilities to PostgreSQL. Available immediately and free to use, the tools further extend Redgate's multi-database support for PostgreSQL, reflecting the growing adoption of PostgreSQL in modern data environments, the company said.
Posted July 28, 2025
AI continues to flirt with all aspects of the business, leading organizations to hastily adopt new and emerging technologies. However, it's important to note that while the possibilities seem endless, it's time to move well beyond pilots and proofs of concept to the scaled deployment and operational impact of AI. To help readers gain a greater understanding about this complex area of information technology, the solutions available, and their role in handling real-world challenges, DBTA and Big Data Quarterly present the list of Awesome Companies in AI.
Posted July 11, 2025
Devart is releasing dbForge 2025.1, updating dbForge tools for all database systems, including SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL along with the introduction of an AI-powered assistant. The dbForge AI Assistant is integrated into dbForge tools and offers context-aware query generation.
Posted June 26, 2025
If you're reading this, you're likely an expert in something database related. You know everything there is to know about SQL, Microsoft Azure, data analytics, maybe more. Perhaps you're an IT specialist who knows your company's digital infrastructure from end to end. If you've spent some years in your role, you've realized that, in addition to your technical know-how, you've probably had to develop another set of skills—interpersonal ones.
Posted June 25, 2025
DataStrike, a leader in data infrastructure managed services, announced a 600% demand for its open-source database management business, fueled by rising enterprise adoptions of PostgreSQL.
Posted June 19, 2025
Change is happening, and it's happening so fast that even the most seasoned data managers and professionals can't keep up. New technologies, along with new approaches to data management, are restructuring—and reimagining—data-related jobs. Industry leaders are expressing astonishment at the speed in which the data world is changing. "I'm witnessing something that's going to make everything different," said Milan Parikh, lead enterprise architect at Cytel.
Posted June 12, 2025
We're still only at the beginning stages of AI, and data appears to be one of the biggest issues slowing down progress. That's one of the revelations of a new survey from Accenture of 2,000 executives. "Though every business may want an AI-powered edge, many companies are still struggling to advance beyond their initial AI experiments," survey co-authors Senthil Ramani, Lan Guan, and Philippe Roussiere find. "A big reason for this is low data readiness—which arises when all types of data, especially unstructured data, are not used to the max."
Posted June 12, 2025
Snowflake announced its intent to acquire Crunchy Data, an open source PostgreSQL technology, to advance its vision to be the ultimate platform for data-driven innovation. This move will allow the company to deliver Snowflake Postgres, a new kind of Postgres designed to power the most demanding, mission-critical AI and transactional systems at enterprise scale and with enterprise confidence.
Posted June 06, 2025
Following the explosive growth of AI initiatives at all levels of various organizations last year, tech leaders have pinpointed digital trust as a crucial challenge in software development for 2025, according to the sixth annual "Reveal Survey Report: Top Software Development Challenges for 2025" survey from Infragistics. To help bring new resources and innovation to light, each year, Database Trends and Applications magazine presents the DBTA 100, a list of forward-thinking companies seeking to expand what's possible with data for their customers.
Posted June 04, 2025
It's time to vote for the annual Database Trends and Applications Readers' Choice Awards, a competition in which the winning information management solutions, products, and services are selected by you, the readers. The voting period is extended through Monday, June 9.
Posted April 18, 2025
In DBTA's latest webinar, Harnessing AI for IoT: Strategies and Technologies for Data Empowerment, experts explored key strategies and technologies that can empower enterprises to take control of their IoT systems with AI.
Posted March 25, 2025
Even after 50 years, Structured Query Language, or SQL, remains the native tongue for those who speak data. It's had impressive staying power since it was first coined the Structured Query English Language in the mid-1970s. It's survived and thrived through the dot-com era and the proliferation of cloud technology. In essence, SQL is a technology that evolves.
Posted February 26, 2025
Submissions for nominations are now open for the annual Database Trends and Applications Readers' Choice Awards, a competition in which the winning information management solutions, products, and services are selected by you, the users. The nominations period is open and extended through March 21, 2025, and will be followed by actual voting on the products nominated by our readers.
Posted February 07, 2025
Throughout 2024, data managers and professionals were at the locus of the new waves of innovation driven by AI and analytics—and the activity was frenetic and intense. As the year 2025 progresses, this intense and frenetic activity will only continue. Cloud services, AI, AI agents, and cybersecurity are top areas of interest that industry leaders are watching. The following are several prominent trends mentioned that are shaping data management.
Posted January 30, 2025
dbt Labs, a pioneer in analytics engineering, is acquiring SDF Labs, the team of former Meta and Microsoft engineering leaders behind SDF, a next-generation data transformation technology—enabling dbt Labs to integrate SDF's powerful multi-dialect, dbt-native SQL comprehension capabilities into dbt.
Posted January 14, 2025