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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft's Data API Builder is designed to help developers expose database objects through REST and GraphQL without building a full data access layer from scratch. In this Q&A, Steve Jones previews ...

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 ...

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 ...

FastObjects .Net brings object-oriented database technology to the .Net environment. Given that the majority of .Net database applications employ RDBMSes on their back end, you might wonder if it ...

Oracle announced a suite of agentic AI capabilities integrated directly into Oracle AI Database, enabling AI agents to securely access enterprise data where it already exists, rather than requiring ...

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 ...

Data science isn’t new, but the demand for quality data has exploded recently. This isn’t a fad or a rebranding, it’s an evolution. Decisions that govern everything from successful presidential ...