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 ...

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 ...

One of the most surprising economic stories of 2025 is that, for the first time in years, purchase application data is showing positive results even amid elevated mortgage rates. Today’s MBA Purchase ...

Understanding your customer base and planning early are essential steps when designing a scalable, multi-tenant database architecture that balances cost, performance and isolation. Building and ...

High-performance open-source vector database Qdrant has added new enterprise-level security and management tools to its cloud offering, allowing companies to deploy and scale up artificial ...

Matt is an associate editorial director and award-winning content creation leader. He is a regular contributor to the CDW Tech Magazines and frequently writes about data analytics, software, storage ...

HarperDB, the Distributed Systems Platform provider, is announcing its recent rebrand to Harper, reflecting its movement beyond just a performance-focused database vendor. Evolving as a full-stack ...

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 ...

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 ...