Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write on the human/political issues surrounding college admissions. The Common Application, a centralized platform over 1,000 ...

To make productive use of the ever-growing volumes of data, businesses and organizations need the right database systems to manage all that data and make it available for transactional and analytical ...

An operating system on top of a distributed database, DBOS is a tantalizing glimpse of something that may eventually turn out to be cool. At the end of March 2024, Mike Stonebraker announced in a blog ...

MariaDB announced the general availability of MariaDB Enterprise Platform 2025, the latest major release of its enterprise database solution that now supports AI applications in addition to a full ...

Today’s applications—including enterprise applica­tions—need to be always on and always available and often must serve a global base of users who expect almost instantaneous response times regardless ...

This high-level definition of a data platform is meant to help frame conversations about the category and compare vendors and their place in it. The definition itself is a moving target since the ...

When Edo Liberty was completing his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Yale on random projections, he could have hardly known that a decade later it would be a fundamental component of modern AI. Liberty is ...

Early numbers suggest this fall’s application cycle could bring admissions offices a much-needed infusion of optimism after a fraught and transformative year. Preliminary data from the Common ...

Data science isn’t new, but the demand for quality data has exploded recently. This isn’t a fad or a rebranding, it’s an evolution. Decisions that govern everything from successful presidential ...

Debate and discussion around data management, analytics, BI and information governance. Market consolidation has been rife in the enterprise IT market this year, the most significant move happening in ...