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Google Cloud expands Spanner for AI & multi-model data

Businesses can now run transactional, graph and vector workloads together as Google broadens Spanner for AI applications across clouds and on-premises.

By Mark Tarre • 5 min read • Last month

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Software-as-a-Service

WP Engine opens Smart Search AI to all WordPress sites

Search on WordPress sites could get sharper results as WP Engine widens its semantic tool beyond hosting customers, aiming to lift conversions.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Yesterday

Disaster Recovery

Percona Live Amsterdam to unite open source database users

Database teams will compare notes on sovereignty, resilience and compliance as the conference returns to Europe this year.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • 2 days ago

DevOps

AWS adds Bedrock web search & DynamoDB vector search

Customers can now build AI apps with live web data and vector search in one AWS stack, reducing database sprawl and latency.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • 2 days ago

Manufacturing

Rinnai Australia cuts service times with Oracle AI

Customer enquiries are now being answered up to 35% faster as Rinnai Australia uses Oracle AI to ease pressure on its call centre.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 3 min read • 3 days ago

Data Analytics

Google adds BigQuery search tools for unstructured data

Customers can now keep document search and embedding work inside BigQuery, as Google rolls out AI search tools to cut extra pipelines and indexes.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Last week

Application Programming Interface

AWS adds vector search to DynamoDB for AI retrieval

Businesses can now keep AI retrieval and live app data in one place, as the service cuts data copying and extra sync pipelines.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Last week

AIOps

OpenSearch 3.8 boosts vector search & observability

Up to 4.16 times faster vector ingestion could help OpenSearch customers cut AI search latency and reduce storage overhead.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 5 min read • Last week

Customer Experience

Target rebuilds product discovery on Google Cloud Spanner

The retailer said the overhaul cut infrastructure maintenance by 50% and improved product recommendations, ratings and Gift Finder responses.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • Last week

Private Cloud

Cloudera named leader in Forrester's data lakehouse wave

The ranking may strengthen Cloudera's pitch to regulated enterprises struggling to move AI pilots into production at scale.

By Mark Tarre • 4 min read • Last month

Software-as-a-Service

Algolia adds guardrails for fashion AI shopping tools

Fashion retailers can now curb costly AI shopping errors as Algolia adds guardrails tied to live stock, prices and business rules.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Last month

Data centers

Tensormesh & AMD team up to ease AI memory pressure

The deal could let enterprises serve more AI models on fewer GPUs by shifting cache data into DRAM, SSDs and remote storage.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Last month

Data Analytics

Google boosts AlloyDB vector search with HNSW preview

Throughput for AI vector searches can rise fourfold on AlloyDB, as Google's preview aims to cut latency without changing pgvector code.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Last month

Data Analytics

Denodo 9.5 adds metric views for AI data governance

Metric views and a broader knowledge graph aim to keep AI tools, dashboards and business users aligned on trusted data definitions.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Last month

Postgres

Google Cloud boosts AlloyDB search for CJK text with Gemini

Developers can now improve Chinese, Japanese and Korean search in AlloyDB without external tokenisers, cutting preprocessing overhead for PostgreSQL users.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Last month