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36 posts

24 Jul

23 Jul

4 min read

What’s one of the biggest bottlenecks stopping organizations from scaling their AI initiatives? It isn’t the capabilities of today’s models — it’s their access to business context and semantic meaning. In the agentic era, enterprises need to go beyond simply storing data to activating it with trusted context, moving from passive systems of record to proactive systems of action. But…

data analyticsdatabasesai infrastructure

21 Jul

4 min read

AlloyDB is a fully managed, PostgreSQL-compatible database service built for your most demanding enterprise workloads. It combines the best of open source PostgreSQL with Google’s advanced technology, offering massive scalability, high availability, and native AI capabilities. It serves as a performant relational store, a unified backend for vector and full text search, and an analytics engine that is up to…

databases

15 Jul

11 min read

AlloyDB powers enterprise-grade search for some of the largest organizations, providing robust hybrid search capabilities that combine text, vector, and keyword searches into a simple ranked SQL query. And with our recent launch of RUM index support, AlloyDB customers now have even more powerful full-text search capabilities at their fingertips. However, database developers often face limitations when indexing continuous text…

databases

13 Jul

7 min read

The automotive industry is moving from building hardware-centric platforms toward building their own sophisticated Software-Defined Vehicle (SDV) architectures. For OEMs, a vehicle is no longer just a way to go from point A to point B, but an intelligent, connected node within an AI-native ecosystem! With its partners, Google’s Android and Google Cloud are at the forefront of this transition.…

bigquerydatabases

1 Jul

5 min read

Editor’s note: SOCRadar is a leading cybersecurity company that provides threat intelligence to businesses worldwide. As the volume of cyber threats continued to grow, SOCRadar needed to modernize its data infrastructure to deliver faster insights to its customers. By migrating from PostgreSQL to AlloyDB, SOCRadar achieved a 20x performance boost, reduced operational overhead, and is now better positioned to innovate…

customersdatabases

8 min read

AlloyDB is an AI-native database—it isn’t just a passive data store, it intelligently understands and processes your data. With AlloyDB, you get industry-leading vector and hybrid search, near 100% accurate natural language-to-SQL capabilities to build conversational agents, tools to enable you to build with your agentic IDEs of choice, and the ability to bring the intelligence of foundation models like…

ai machine learningdatabases

30 Jun

6 min read

The financial services industry (FSI) operates under a unique set of non-negotiable requirements: the need for strict regulatory compliance, sub-millisecond transactional speeds, and security that verges on impenetrable. Historically, organizations have met these standards by relying on brittle, proprietary database systems, leaving them with massive technical debt, operational overhead, and vendor lock-in. At the same time, financial services companies are…

financial servicesdatabases

29 Jun

7 min read

In the agentic era, the role of the database has fundamentally changed. It is no longer a passive repository; it’s a critical context engine designed to ground generative AI apps, models and power autonomous workflows. To do this effectively, databases must move beyond fragmented architectures and embrace a unified, multi-model foundation, facilitating deep reasoning and transforming static data into a…

spannerdatabases

23 Jun

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16 Jun

4 min read

Atlas is building the operating system for restaurants. Online storefronts, point of sale, third-party logistics, food platform integrations, customer loyalty, and AI tools represent everything a restaurant needs to start, run, and grow. We work with brands like SaladStop, Killiney, Haidilao, Raffles Hotel, Lo and Behold Group and the Les Amis Group in Singapore, helping merchants increase basket sizes, grow…

databases

15 Jun

6 min read

The rise of AI agents is fundamentally disrupting applications and analytical systems. Generic AI platforms don't usually have access to the context stored within enterprise databases. This is because traditional data architectures often lack context for agents across the data estate, which can lead to agents being inaccurate. They’re also prone to security gaps due to a lack of granular…

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7 min read

As enterprises adopt agentic AI, they need to shift from reactive systems of intelligence to proactive systems of action to equip the agents they’re building with the context and performance they need, plus regulator-grade accountability, where every decision is explainable and auditable. At Google Cloud Next ‘26, we discuss how our Agentic Data Cloud enables a system of action, and…

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8 Jun

3 min read

In clinical informatics, every second counts. For Alcidion, a global leader in smart health solutions, the mission is simple but critical: use technology to reduce cognitive load for clinicians and present the right information at the right time to save lives. Whether it’s managing patient flow in an emergency department or ensuring a patient is in the correct ward to…

ai machine learningdata analyticscustomersdatabases

4 Jun

6 min read

June 1 - June 5 Beyond the Query: Powering AI Agents with Bigtable, Firestore & Memorystore Discover the latest advancements in Google Cloud's NoSQL Database portfolio, including Bigtable, Firestore, and Memorystore. This series is designed for a broad audience: whether you are exploring these databases for the first time or are an existing user looking to leverage the new capabilities…

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2 Jun

9 min read

At Google Cloud Next, we announced the preview of graph algorithms with Spanner Graph, bringing Google Research’s state-of-the-art graph mining capabilities natively to your database. These graph intelligence capabilities can help you derive valuable insights from graph data faster, cheaper, and at scale. Enterprises are increasingly leveraging graph technologies to uncover complex relationships in data for use cases such as…

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11 Feb 2019

Matthew Green 18 min read

A few days ago I had the pleasure of hosting Kenny Paterson, who braved snow and historic cold (by Baltimore standards) to come talk to us about encrypted databases. Kenny’s newest result is with first authors Paul Grubbs, Marie-Sarah Lacharité and Brice Minaud (let’s call it GLMP). It isn’t so much about building encrypted databases, as it … Continue reading…

attacksdatabases

18 Apr 2017

lukaseder 1 min read

Welcome to the jOOQ Tuesdays series. In this series, we’ll publish an article on the third Tuesday every other month where we interview someone we find exciting in our industry from a jOOQ perspective. This includes people who work with SQL, Java, Open Source, and a variety of other related topics. I’m very excited to … Continue reading jOOQ Tuesdays:…

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23 Mar 2016

Schakko 1 min read

After some years without using Neo4j I had the chance to use the graph database in my current project. Neo4j was a good fit because it makes it really easy to prototype an idea and the project itself relies heavily upon tree structures. Modelling tree structures in relational database management […] The post Fixing “Unable to obtain lock on store…

databases

26 May 2015

Schakko 1 min read

CMDBuild supports the usage of SQL queries inside the “filter” options if the type is a REFERENCE. Given: A lookup table named “Software Type” [{Code: DBMS}, {Code: App}] A class Application [{Code: MySQL, Type: DBMS}, {Code: PostgreSQL, Type: DBMS}, {Code: Tomcat, Type: App}]; “Type” references the lookup table “Software Type” […] The post Using Subselects with CQL in CMDBuilds “filter”…

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26 Sept 2014

lukaseder 1 min read

Controversial database topics are a guaranteed success on reddit, because everyone has an opinion on those topics. More importantly, many people have a dogmatic opinion, which always triggers more debate than pragmatism. So, recently, I posted a link to an older article titled The Database As Queue Anti-Pattern by Mike Hadlow, and it got decent … Continue reading Using Your…

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26 Jun 2014

lukaseder 1 min read

Writing tests that use an actual database is hard. Period. Now that this has been established, let’s have a look at a blog post by Marco Behler, in which he elaborates on various options when testing database code, with respect to transactionality. Testing database transactions is even harder than just testing database code. Marco lists … Continue reading Stop Unit…

javasqldatabaseshibernateintegration testing

18 Mar 2014

Schakko 1 min read

I am currently playing around with ASP.NET and its Entity Framework. At some point I wanted to execute all my migrations against a new local SQL Express database. After I had dropped the database in SQL Management Studio, the Update-Database command of the Entity Framework failed with the error “Database ‘$path.mdf’ […] The post MSSQL: Database * already exists. Choose…

databases

7 Jan 2014

Schakko 1 min read

Recently I struggled upon the same problem, this guy described. Our Oracle database instance contains multiple schematics with almost the same structure. Every developer has it’s own schema for unit and integration tests. On application startup the Hibernate schema validator calls the DatabaseMetaData.getTables() for every linked entity. The method returns the first […] The post Hibernate uses wrong schema during…

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30 Aug 2012

Schakko 1 min read

Today I had to move the WSUS internal database to one of our backend database servers. Microsoft has a good instruction how to do this, nevertheless I ran into a problem. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 did not allow me to add the machine account of our WSUS frontend server (let […] The post WSUS: Moving from Windows Internal Database to…

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23 Dec 2011

Schakko 5 min read

One of the most annoying things I get in touch with software development beside the question How can I format this date is How can I put my database under version control? If you have not already read K. Scott Allens Database series, do it now. At first follow his […] The post Databases in developers environment – Versioning and…

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18 Dec 2011