No shame in the Domain Name game: DNS is doomed, literally
HPE's networking boss says AI will handle all trouble tickets without humans in two years 1 day ago
The Register8 min read
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dbForge 2026.2 Makes Its AI SQL Assistant Free: Here’s What Developers Get
dbForge 2026.2 is out, and for anyone who writes SQL every day the headline is simple: dbForge AI Assistant now has a free Express edition. You can generate, explain, fix, and optimize SQL with AI directly inside your dbForge tool, working against your actual schema, without buying a subscription…
Dev.to AI5 min read
Load terabytes of data in minutes into Lakebase Postgres
Operational databases like Postgres are built to reliably execute highly concurrent...
Databricks Blog8 min read
Spanner Omni Reaches GA, Replacing Google's Atomic Clocks and File System with Software
Google has made Spanner Omni generally available, running its distributed SQL database on-premises, across clouds or on a laptop. Doing so meant replacing Colossus with a Colossus-like abstraction layer and TrueTime with software-based time synchronization.
InfoQ - AI/ML/Data5 min read
The State of Serene, September 2026
Issue #4 of The State of Serene: faster search on every core and from a cold cache, regex and fuzzy search that always answer, text analyzers as expressions, HNSW, the docs inside the binary, OpenTelemetry ingestion, faster time histograms, MATCH_RECOGNIZE, spatial and AI functions.
SereneDB Blog26 min read
Vector Database Memory Sizing and Cost Math: How Much RAM Do 1 Million Vectors Need?
Vector Database Memory Sizing and Cost Math: How Much RAM Do 1 Million Vectors Need? Estimate vector database memory, disk, and cost with embedding dimension, precision, metadata, index overhead, replicas, and capacity planning.
Dev.to AI12 min read
When do AI agents actually matter? Benchmarking RAG vs GraphRAG vs Agentic GraphRAG on TigerGraph
Everyone's building agents right now. But a better question than "can an agent do this?" is "when does an agent actually beat something simpler?" For the TigerGraph Agentic GraphRAG Hackathon, I built three question-answering pipelines side by side to find out.
Dev.to AI3 min read
Database startup Supabase raises $150M, acquires Turso
Supabase Inc., a startup that commercializes the open-source PostgreSQL database, has raised $150 million in funding. Singapore’s GIC sovereign wealth fund led the deal. It was joined by Alphabet Inc.’s CapitalG, IronArc and SquarePeg.
SiliconANGLE3 min read
Someone got Doom in an SQL database
1,300 lines of SQL querying renders accurate bitmapped views of Hell at 35 fps.
Ars Technica1 min read
Lakebase Postgres branch-based restores for fast recovery at scale
In managed OLTP, restores have always been painfully slow and they get slower at...
Databricks Blog8 min read
Database MCP Server: Should an AI Agent Run SQL or Only Read the Schema?
Disclosure: I build Schemity, a desktop ERD tool - this post is from our blog and uses it for the examples. TL;DR: For schema work an AI agent needs the structure, not the rows, so give it a database MCP server that exposes the schema and no SQL tool.
Dev.to AI7 min read
Stop Giving Your AI Agent Raw SQL
The fastest way to connect an AI agent to application data is often a generic SQL tool. Give the model a schema, accept a SQL string, run it, and return the rows. That is also where a prototype can quietly become a production security and maintenance problem.
Dev.to AI7 min read
I Let Hindsight Remember Our Deployments. SQLite Keeps It Honest.
The useful part of a deployment agent isn't telling me what a PostgreSQL upgrade is. It's remembering what happened the last time I tried one. That became the central idea behind DeployMind, a DevOps pipeline agent I built around Hindsight.
Dev.to AI9 min read
Lakebase Search: State-of-the-art full text and vector search for Postgres
Traditional OLTP systems weren't built for the search demands of AI agents. They...
Databricks Blog7 min read
AWS Introduces Foreign Key Constraints in Aurora DSQL
AWS recently announced that Aurora DSQL now supports foreign key constraints, allowing applications to enforce referential integrity directly in the database, including CASCADE, SET NULL, and other referential actions.
InfoQ - AI/ML/Data3 min read
Database governance in the AI era: Framework, risks and best practices
AI database governance can get overlooked when teams rush to connect AI tools to production data. IBM’s 2025 research found that 97% of organizations that reported a breach involving an AI model or application lacked proper AI access controls. The risk is easy to see.
dbForge AI Assistant Blog12 min read
SereneDB vs ClickHouse
We ran 92 search and analytics queries over 100M, 1B and 10B OpenTelemetry logs against ClickHouse 26.8 with its new text index and SereneDB, all on a single instance.
SereneDB Blog20 min read
SereneDB vs Elasticsearch vs OpenSearch vs CrateDB
We ran 92 search and analytics queries over 100M and 1B OpenTelemetry logs against Elasticsearch 9.5, its new columnar index mode, OpenSearch, CrateDB and SereneDB.
SereneDB Blog20 min read
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