Data Modeling Articles
To help break down the latest and greatest of GenAI, experts joined DBTA's webinar—in partnership with Enterprise AI World—Top Trends in GenAI for 2025, offering the necessary expertise and strategies for navigating the fast-paced AI era.
Posted February 18, 2025
Ataccama, the data trust company, is offering Ataccama Lineage, a new module within its Ataccama ONE unified data trust platform (V16) to provide enterprise-wide visibility into data flows, offering organizations a clear view of their data's journey from source to consumption.
Posted February 13, 2025
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) in unveiling eight new HPE ProLiant Compute Gen12 servers, the latest additions to a new generation of enterprise servers that introduce new security capabilities, optimize performance for complex workloads, and boost productivity with management features enhanced by artificial intelligence (AI).
Posted February 13, 2025
The role of the Database Administrator (DBA) is constantly evolving to adapt to changes in technology and application development methods. Once primarily focused on managing physical hardware and software, DBAs now find themselves navigating a complex landscape of cloud technologies, AI-driven automation, and ever-increasing data volumes. Here at the beginning of 2025, let's explore the top five concerns that keep DBAs up at night.
Posted February 13, 2025
Normalization clusters data items together based on functional dependencies within the data items. This normalized arrangement expresses the semantics of the business items being presented. Denormalization means that, for some reason, grouping the data strictly by functional dependencies has been ignored. Why might one cast aside reasonable designs for something less rational? There are many reasons for denormalizing.
Posted February 13, 2025
Since the term's inception in the late 2000s, "DevOps" is by far the most common approach to product development. During the last 15 years, DevOps processes have evolved to new speeds and scales, with the latest iteration including AI-assisted coding and platform engineering. Simultaneously, certain companies are struggling to master database operations. As a result, many organizations have data that sits in silos and/or can be hard to track down. What today's businesses need is a way to combine DevOps and data management, ultimately creating a Database DevOps framework.
Posted February 13, 2025
Percona, a global leader in enterprise-grade open source database software and services, is releasing Percona Support for Valkey—a comprehensive, responsive, and flexible service offering that promises to maintain reliable, optimized Valkey deployments whether on-premises, hybrid, or in the cloud.
Posted February 11, 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 10, 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 through March 7, 2025, and will be followed by actual voting on the products nominated by our readers.
Posted February 07, 2025
Quest Software, a global leader in AI-powered cybersecurity, data management, and migration, is offering the next iteration of Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) and disaster recovery to challenge outdated models and set new standards for proactive defense and rapid recovery.
Posted February 06, 2025
Nowadays, organizations need to migrate and move data from the Oracle database to various data lakes, such as Microsoft Fabric and Snowflake. These data lakes are used in data analytics and by data scientists which help organizations to process vast amounts of data in real time or batch, derive insights, and make data-driven decisions.
Posted February 05, 2025
A surrogate is, "One appointed to act in place of another." A surrogate key is appointed to act in place of a natural key. Why? Well, one could argue that surrogate keys existed since the beginning of the computer. As the computer uses internal addresses for finding everything, and in the early days that usage had to be explicitly managed by those programming. It wasn't until relational theory came along that the concept of using data values as identifiers arose and were functionally implemented.
Posted February 05, 2025
Perforce Software, a DevOps company for global teams requiring speed, quality, security, and compliance at scale along the development life cycle, is introducing AI Validation, a new capability within its Perfecto continuous testing platform for web and mobile applications that will change the way organizations experience testing.
Posted February 03, 2025
MicroStrategy Incorporated, a pioneer in AI-powered business intelligence, is releasing the latest version of MicroStrategy ONE, helping enterprises gain rapid value from generative AI (GenAI) by personalizing the AI experience. According to the company, MicroStrategy's Auto AI bot delivers a human-like conversational experience for users interacting with data.
Posted January 31, 2025
Progress is unveiling Progress Data Cloud, a centralized Data Platform as a service designed to improve data and AI operations in the cloud without the complexity of infrastructure management.
Posted January 30, 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
Bluwhale, an AI Web3 start-up, announced that it has topped its funding to $100 million, enabling the company to further expand its Web3 intelligence layer across multiple L1 and L2 blockchains. This total amount of funding includes its Seed/Series A round as well as a $75 million token purchase commitment, grants, and node sale proceeds.
Posted January 29, 2025
Qt Group is launching Qt AI Assistant, an experimental tool for streamlining cross-platform user interface (UI) development with the goal of reducing repetitive UI development tasks that often do not involve coding.
Posted January 28, 2025
Jeff Vestal, principal customer enterprise architect at Elastic, joined DBTA's webinar, Beyond RAG basics: Strategies and best practices for implementing RAG, to explore best practices, patterns, and techniques for delivering superior RAG performance.
Posted January 27, 2025
Sonar, a leading provider of code quality and code security solutions, is offering its latest Long-Term Active (LTA) version, SonarQube Server 2025 Release 1 (2025.1), introducing a range of advanced features and enhancements designed to integrate the use of AI in the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), enhance code security, and improve overall software quality.
Posted January 27, 2025
OpenAI is partnering with Arm, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Oracle to form the Stargate Project—a new company which intends to invest $500 billion over the next four years building new AI infrastructure for OpenAI in the United States. According to an announcement by OpenAI, the project will begin deploying $100 billion immediately.
Posted January 22, 2025
A day in the life of a DBA (database administrator) can be quite hectic. The DBA is required to maintain production and test environments while at the same time keeping an eye on active application development projects, attending strategy and design meetings, helping to select and evaluate new products, and keeping legacy systems robust and stable, while ensuring access from new systems.
Posted January 22, 2025
Oracle announced it has been recognized as a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems. Oracle's converged database architecture enables customers to leverage multiple data and application development models to support enterprise data and AI workloads.
Posted January 22, 2025
ThoughtSpot is debuting Analyst Studio, a creator space designed to help data teams accelerate their data readiness for AI and analytics.
Posted January 20, 2025
President Joe Biden issued an executive order to provide federal support to address massive energy needs for fast-growing advanced artificial intelligence data centers, calling for leasing federal sites owned by Defense and Energy departments to host gigawatt-scale AI data centers and new clean power facilities. The move aims to address enormous power needs in a short time frame.
Posted January 20, 2025
New approaches to data architecture and data management are key toward enabling AI across the enterprise. In DBTA's latest webinar, Modernizing Your Data Management Strategy for the AI Era, experts discuss emerging technologies and best practices for supporting AI with a robust, end-to-end data strategy.
Posted January 17, 2025
The interest surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) has never been higher, but AI agents are the next wave of innovation enterprises need to prepare for. An AI agent is a fully automated program with complex reasoning capabilities and memory that uses an LLM to solve problems, creates its own plan to do so, and executes that plan.
Posted January 15, 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
The months and years ahead promise to be an interesting time in the data analytics space.AI and machine learning are already making their mark, elevating analytics—and its front-end sibling, business intelligence. End users are seeing their capabilities expand in new directions, with an ability to ask questions they did not even consider with earlier technology iterations. Industry leaders are tracking a range of developments that are defining analytics and BI in the year ahead.
Posted January 13, 2025
A lot of SAP customers and consultants look at SAP BW/4HANA as a "lower-class" SAP system. Something for "someone else" to worry about. They forget about all the work that went into setting up their company's data warehouse in SAP BW/4HANA, or further back, like some of my early SAP consulting projects on BW7 and BW3.5.
Posted January 09, 2025
While the generative AI (GenAI) revolution is rolling forward at full steam, it's not without its share of fear, uncertainty, and doubt. The great promises that can be delivered through large language models (LLMs) are tainted by concerns over hallucinations, bias, data security, "black-box" decisioning, and outdated information.
Posted January 09, 2025
In 2025, preventing risks from both cybercriminals and AI use will be top mandates for most CIOs. Ransomware, in particular, continues to vex enterprises, and unstructured data is a vast, largely unprotected asset. AI solutions have moved from experimental to mainstream, with all the major tech companies and cloud providers making significant investments in building turnkey generative (GenAI) and AI solutions for enterprise customers.
Posted January 09, 2025
Oracle Database 23ai is the next long-term support release and offers over 300 new features. Originally named Oracle Database 23i, it was rebranded to Oracle Database 23ai with a heavy focus on artificial intelligence (AI). To optimize many of the database's key functions, Oracle Database 23ai uses AI for improved timing estimates and resource costings. There are also new features such as AI Vector Search to allow data queries on semantics and not keywords.
Posted January 08, 2025
Cybersecurity continues to be top of mind for organizations everywhere as 2025 begins. In 2024 alone, hackers attacked hospitals and other health care organizations, telecom giants, supply chains, and more. Even government entities haven't been spared in these attacks. Here, security experts share their predictions for incoming threats in 2025.
Posted January 07, 2025
Blitzy, the emerging leader in System 2 AI, is announcing the launch of the Blitzy Platform, the company's agentic solution that promises to revolutionize the way enterprises build software applications.
Posted January 06, 2025
NTT DOCOMO Ventures, Inc. announced it has invested in Ayar Labs, Inc. through its managed fund with the aim of driving advancements in optical I/O technologies, accelerating practical applications of innovative solutions, and fostering the creation of new value in the field.
Posted January 03, 2025
AI innovation in the big data space shows no signs of slowing down, with companies rushing to adopt or create their own solutions based on AI, automating redundant tasks, and spinning up all kinds of use cases to justify spending big bucks in the area. Here, tech experts share their predictions for AI in 2025.
Posted December 20, 2024
Linkerd, created by Buoyant, is releasing Linkerd 2.17, a new version of Linkerd that introduces several major new features to the project: egress traffic visibility and control; rate limiting; and federated services, a powerful new multicluster primitive that combines services running in multiple clusters into a single logical service. This release also updates Linkerd to support OpenTelemetry for distributed tracing.
Posted December 18, 2024
RapidCanvas, democratizing AI-driven business transformation, announced it has secured $16 million in a funding round for its AI agents, empowering the company to further support the automation of complex tasks traditionally performed by data scientists and engineers.
Posted December 17, 2024