Postgres stories
Developers can now improve Chinese, Japanese and Korean search in AlloyDB without external tokenisers, cutting preprocessing overhead for PostgreSQL users.
Businesses could gain faster in-database AI queries as Google Cloud adds summarisation, sentiment analysis and new speed options to AlloyDB.
The ranking could help EDB win larger enterprises seeking to run analytics and AI closer to core data without adding more specialist systems.
Banks under regulatory pressure may be able to modernise databases without moving sensitive records to public cloud infrastructure.
Enterprises can now run AI agents on live PostgreSQL data with governance controls, as EDB expands its Postgres AI platform.
Banks and retailers are adopting the platform as AI projects mature, with data sovereignty now shaping budgets, risk and infrastructure choices.
The fresh cash lifts Supabase's valuation to USD $10.5 billion as AI-driven demand for its database platform continues to surge.
The update aims to stop conflicting writes across sites in critical sectors such as banking and payments, reducing reconciliation risk.
Enterprises will get tighter AI controls as Snowflake adds blocking policies, multi-party authorisation and new agentic tools at Summit.
Billing now accounts for most usage of Cloudflare's new internal platform, as staff query live data through Trino-backed Town Lake and Skipper.
Database teams get stronger SQL assistance and PostgreSQL design tools, as dbForge 2026.1 adds AI-driven query help and visual editors.
Nearly half of organisations are leaving risky ports and services open, with midmarket firms taking up to 56 days to fix exposures.
Enterprises could cut AI running costs and emissions sharply as EDB says its database stack reduces token use and compute demand.
The updates aim to help companies turn internal data into AI-driven workflows while keeping business controls and governance in place.
More than 9,100 customers already use Snowflake's AI products weekly, as new tools aim to move corporate pilots into everyday workflows.
Regional demand for its data and AI tools jumped more than 85% in the fourth quarter, prompting a bigger APJ push from Databricks.
Enterprises could cut in-house patching as the deal brings supported, security-focused database container images to production environments.
Gold Lapel unveils a PostgreSQL proxy that auto‑tunes slow SQL, aiming to replace extra cache and pooling layers with in‑database smarts.
Analysts can now query decades of Australian power-market data in seconds after Open Electricity added ClickHouse to its hybrid database setup.
It aims to give AI agents persistent memory and queryable search in Postgres, replacing brittle markdown files with database-backed retrieval.
