AWS recently announced ExtendDB, a DynamoDB-compatible adapter that lets developers use the DynamoDB API with different ...

Data teams building AI agents keep running into the same failure mode. Questions that require joining structured data with unstructured content, sales figures alongside customer reviews or citation ...

SAN FRANCISCO, March 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Databricks, the Data and AI company, today launched Genie Code, an autonomous AI agent that fundamentally changes how data work gets done. Genie Code can ...

# MAGIC Delta Lake & Deltalakhouse is the Core/Analytical storage layer behind Bronze–Silver–Gold (medallion) architectures. # MAGIC drop table lakehousecat1.deltadb.customer_txn; # MAGIC drop table ...

Choosing the right data platform is critical for the modern enterprise. These platforms not only store and protect enterprise data, but also serve as analytics engines that source insights for pivotal ...

Another year passes. I was hoping to write more articles instead of just these end-of-the-year screeds, but I almost died in the spring semester, and it sucked up my time. Nevertheless, I will go ...

Born out of Microsoft’s SQL Server Big Data Clusters investments, the Apache Spark Connector for SQL Server and Azure SQL is a high-performance connector that enables you to use transactional data in ...

Unity Catalog is now the most complete catalog for Apache Iceberg™ and Delta Lake, enabling open interoperability with governance across compute engines, and adds unified semantics and a rich ...

Today, at its annual Data + AI Summit, Databricks announced that it is open-sourcing its core declarative ETL framework as Apache Spark Declarative Pipelines, making it available to the entire Apache ...

Built on open standards, Unity Catalog is designed to work across every table format and engine. Databricks is now taking that vision further with the Public Preview of full Apache Iceberg support, ...

The data industry has arrived at a pivotal juncture that echoes the themes we’ve charted in previous Breaking Analysis episodes, from The Sixth Data Platform through The Yellow Brick Road to Agentic ...