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AI agents have arrived in force. They query systems at machine speed. They spawn new data stores without asking permission. And they multiply so fast that traditional databas...

Oracle Opens MySQL Governance to Community Voices, Yet Skeptics Demand Binding Assurances

Oracle has taken a notable step toward greater openness with the database that powers much of the internet. On June 25, 2026, the company published a detailed plan to restruc...

Microsoft-Backed DocumentDB Challenges MongoDB With PostgreSQL Foundation and Open Governance

Developers have long faced a choice. Stick with the familiar document model of MongoDB. Or accept the power and reliability of PostgreSQL. A new project removes the trade-off...

Mark Cuban’s Blunt Diagnosis: AI Giants Lost the Public by Treating Data Centers as a Sideshow

Billionaire Mark Cuban dropped a lengthy X post on Thursday that framed the swelling resistance to AI data centers as something deeper than local complaints about power lines or...

MySQL Loyalists Form OurSQL Foundation to Demand Transparency From Oracle

Oracle bought MySQL in 2009 as part of its Sun Microsystems acquisition. The database powered much of the early web. Yet nearly two decades later, many in its community feel...

Google Pushes Database Engineers to Rely Heavily on AI Coding Tools for PostgreSQL

Sailesh Krishnamurthy has a direct message for his database teams. Use AI heavily. The vice president of databases at Google Cloud delivered the guidance as the company accel...

SQLite Loadable Extensions: Flexibility, Modularity, and Built-in Security

SQLite stands as one of the most popular embedded database systems available, powering countless applications across mobile devices, web services, and desktop software. Among it...

DuckDB’s FTS Extension: BM25-Powered Search Transforms Local Analytics Without Extra Servers

Data analysts and engineers have long chased fast text search in analytical workflows. DuckDB's full-text search extension changes that equation. Load it with two SQL commands....

Linux 7.0’s Preemption Shift Slashes PostgreSQL Throughput on High-Core Servers

An AWS engineer spotted the problem first. On a 96-vCPU Graviton4 instance, PostgreSQL throughput plunged to half under Linux 7.0. Salvatore Dipietro posted benchmarks to the...

Oracle’s AI Agent Unlocks Google Cloud Data Without a Single SQL Line

Enterprise data has long sat behind SQL barriers. Oracle just tore them down inside Google Cloud. On April 22, the companies unveiled the Oracle AI Database Agent for Gemini Ent...

Rust’s Redb Hits 4.1: AI Agents Squash Bugs, Deliver 1.5x Write Speedups in Embedded KV Store

Redb, the pure-Rust embedded key-value database, just dropped version 4.1. And it's leaning hard on AI. The release notes kick off with a blunt admission: "This release contains...

The Database That Runs Inside Your Laptop Is Rewriting the Rules of Data Analytics

A database engine that embeds directly inside applications — no server, no configuration, no network overhead — has quietly become one of the most consequential pieces of dat...

Linux 7.0 Looms as Torvalds Weighs a Version Number Jump — and PostgreSQL’s AWS Driver Gets the Axe

Linus Torvalds is once again entertaining the idea of bumping the Linux kernel's major version number, this time from 6.x to 7.0. Not because of some sweeping architectural o...

The End of the Server: How Git-Native Databases Are Rewriting the Rules of Team Collaboration

For decades, collaborative software development has rested on a familiar assumption: if multiple people need to work with the same data, you need a server. A database. Middle...

PostgreSQL Is Finally Killing MD5 Authentication — And the Transition Won’t Be Painless

For more than two decades, MD5 hashing served as PostgreSQL's default password authentication method. That era is ending. The open-source database's development community has...

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