Five Minute Briefing - Information Management
November 10, 2026
Five Minute Briefing - Information Management: November 10, 2026. A concise weekly report with key product news, market research and insight for data management professionals and IT executives.
News Flashes
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced system tables in Amazon Athena, giving data teams a way to analyze query activity, audit usage, and track how much data different users and workloads scan.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has released an open source web interface that lets data teams turn selected records from Apache Iceberg tables into graphs for analysis in Amazon Neptune Analytics.
CloudBolt Software announced the addition of AI agent governance capabilities to the CloudBolt Cloud Management Platform (CMP). The capabilities build on the Model Context Protocol support CloudBolt announced in May and the natural language interface that came with a CMP redesign in August.
Databricks has made Lakebase Postgres generally available on Google Cloud, bringing its managed, serverless transactional database to customers running analytics and AI workloads on the Databricks platform.
EnterpriseDB (EDB) has announced the acquisition of Altinity, a provider of enterprise software, managed services, and support for ClickHouse software. The acquisition brings together open source database engine Postgres and ClickHouse software on EDB Postgres AI (PG AI), the industry's first open, sovereign AI data system, while reducing costs for organizations.
Neo4j introduced Relate, "an AI-native, open source, in-memory and in-process embedded database built in Rust for AI Agents and Agentic Systems."
Percona has announced the general availability of Percona Search for MongoDB, an offering that allows organizations to run full-text, vector, and hybrid search within their own infrastructure. It combines local-first automatic embedding generation with operator-based deployment, letting teams bring search into production environments on their own terms.
The Modern Data Company has launched Dex, a conversational analytics tool that lets business users ask questions in plain language and trace the answers back to governed data products in DataOS.