A decade ago, Ion Stoica and his colleagues at UC Berkeley's school of computing identified the roadblock to performing advanced analytics. The challenge at the time was what we then called Big Data.

Confirming recent reports, Databricks Inc. today announced that it’s acquiring Neon Inc. to enhance its cloud data platform, in a deal the Wall Street Journal reported is worth about $1 billion. San ...

Databricks acquires Neon to integrate its serverless Postgress database, enabling AI agents to deploy scalable, fast-provisioning data workloads. Databricks, a leading platform for data and AI ...

Databricks Inc. is reportedly seeking to buy Neon Inc., a startup that sells a commercial version of the open-source PostgreSQL database. Tech publication Upstarts Media today cited sources as saying ...

Data analytics platform Databricks said on Wednesday that it has agreed to acquire Neon, a startup building an open source alternative to AWS Aurora Postgres, for about $1 billion. Databricks said ...

The importance of databases to modern enterprise AI operations cannot be overstated. Data helps to train and ground AI, and multiple research reports show that without proper data, AI efforts tend to ...

‘The era of AI-native, agent-driven applications is reshaping what a database must do. Neon proves it: Four out of every five databases on their platform are spun up by code, not humans,’ says ...

Five years ago, Databricks coined the term 'data lakehouse' to describe a new type of data architecture that combines a data lake with a data warehouse. That term and data architecture are now ...

Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced an expansion of their companies’ partnership at the Databricks Data and AI Summit. I was recently back in San Francisco, attending the ...