Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Cohan, a Boston-based senior contributor, covers stocks. Before launching artificial intelligence agents, businesses want ...

As customers try to “get artificial intelligence right,” the need to rationalize siloed data becomes increasingly important. Data practitioners could put all their data eggs into a single platform ...

The data industry has arrived at a pivotal juncture that echoes the themes we’ve charted in previous Breaking Analysis episodes, from The Sixth Data Platform through The Yellow Brick Road to Agentic ...

Databricks’ acquisition of Tabular puts new pressure on competitors such as Snowflake and Confluent as cloud data management rises in importance as a technology necessary for AI initiatives. Last week ...

At a time when many enterprise companies have struggled to find growth and valuations have plunged, Databricks continues to prove the exception. In September the company raised $500 million on a ...

The competition between Snowflake and Databricks in the data warehouse market closely resembles the iPhone vs. Android rivalry of the past decade. Initially, Snowflake adopted a closed-ended ecosystem ...

Data analytics software maker Databricks said in a statement on Tuesday that it's acquiring Tabular, a startup that helps optimize data stored in the cloud. The gesture could help Databricks more ...

Databricks is raising a fresh $4 billion at a reported $134 billion valuation, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. The AI-focused data analytics startup is a rival to SnowflakeSNOW, which has ...

Databricks’ Unity Catalog, now open sourced under the Apache 2.0 license, competes with Snowflake’s Polaris Catalog, which will soon be open source. Just days after rival data lakehouse provider ...

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Soon after announcing its earnings for the ...

The 2026 CNBC Disruptor 50 list will be revealed Tuesday, May 19th Databricks is buying Tabular, a small startup that helps companies optimize data they store in the cloud with the Apache Iceberg ...