Postgres stories
Enterprises running PostgreSQL on servers can now automate failover, backups and scaling on-premises as Google broadens AlloyDB Omni support.
It could cut the cost and delay of bringing AI agents to regulated data by letting firms use live SQL systems without migration.
Customers running petabyte-scale analytics can now recover full WarehousePG clusters after site outages, cutting downtime and data-loss risk.
The preview could let AI search systems handle far larger datasets with p95 latency of 51 milliseconds or less at more than 10 billion vectors.
The deal gives developers a way to keep AI agents working locally in sync with central data, cutting latency in sandboxed apps.
Google has explained how Gemini-based code conversion supports PostgreSQL migrations from commercial database platforms.
Database teams will compare notes on sovereignty, resilience and compliance as the conference returns to Europe this year.
Throughput for AI vector searches can rise fourfold on AlloyDB, as Google's preview aims to cut latency without changing pgvector code.
Developers can now improve Chinese, Japanese and Korean search in AlloyDB without external tokenisers, cutting preprocessing overhead for PostgreSQL users.
Businesses could gain faster in-database AI queries as Google Cloud adds summarisation, sentiment analysis and new speed options to AlloyDB.
The ranking could help EDB win larger enterprises seeking to run analytics and AI closer to core data without adding more specialist systems.
Banks under regulatory pressure may be able to modernise databases without moving sensitive records to public cloud infrastructure.
Enterprises can now run AI agents on live PostgreSQL data with governance controls, as EDB expands its Postgres AI platform.
Banks and retailers are adopting the platform as AI projects mature, with data sovereignty now shaping budgets, risk and infrastructure choices.
The fresh cash lifts Supabase's valuation to USD $10.5 billion as AI-driven demand for its database platform continues to surge.
The update aims to stop conflicting writes across sites in critical sectors such as banking and payments, reducing reconciliation risk.
Enterprises will get tighter AI controls as Snowflake adds blocking policies, multi-party authorisation and new agentic tools at Summit.
Billing now accounts for most usage of Cloudflare's new internal platform, as staff query live data through Trino-backed Town Lake and Skipper.
Database teams get stronger SQL assistance and PostgreSQL design tools, as dbForge 2026.1 adds AI-driven query help and visual editors.
Analysts can now query decades of Australian power-market data in seconds after Open Electricity added ClickHouse to its hybrid database setup.
