Agentic workflows are making distributed, always-on databases nonnegotiable

Oracle tackles database infrastructure with its Globally Distributed AI Database, aiming to ensure zero data loss for mission ...

“TotalRecall Reloaded” tool finds a side entrance to Windows 11’s Recall database

Two years ago, Microsoft launched its first wave of “Copilot+” Windows PCs with a handful of exclusive features that could ...

Zhongqi Zhu Addresses Key Challenges in Vector Database and AI Technology Integration

A study on vector database and AI integration identifies unstable indexing, weak cross-modal fusion, and rigid resource ...
Microsoft

Advancing agentic AI with Microsoft databases across a unified data estate

This week, we are excited to kick off SQLCon 2026 alongside FabCon in Atlanta. Bringing these SQL and Fabric communities together creates a unique opportunity to learn, connect, and share what’s next ...
MarketWatch

KIOXIA Achieves 4.8 Billion High-Dimensional Vector Search Database on a Single Server, with 7.8x Index Build Time Acceleration via GPUs

Kioxia America, Inc. today announced the successful demonstration of high-dimensional vector search scaling to 4.8 billion vectors on a single server using its open-source KIOXIA AiSAQ(TM) approximate ...
IEEE

Bauhaus: Restructuring Vector Database for LLM Retrieval on CXL-Based Tiered Memory

Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation pipelines store large volumes of embedding vectors in vector databases for semantic search. In Compute Express Link (CXL)-based tiered memory systems, ...
Computer Weekly

Microsoft patches zero-days in .NET and SQL Server

Two zero-day flaws in the form of a denial of service (DoS) issue in .NET and an elevation of privilege (EoP) issue in SQL Server top the agenda for security teams in Microsoft’s latest monthly Patch ...
marktechpost

How to Build an Elastic Vector Database with Consistent Hashing, Sharding, and Live Ring Visualization for RAG Systems

In this tutorial, we build an elastic vector database simulator that mirrors how modern RAG systems shard embeddings across distributed storage nodes. We implement consistent hashing with virtual ...
InfoQ

AWS Enables Lambda Function Triggers from RDS for SQL Server Database Events

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Agent workflows make transport a first-order ...
Bleeping Computer

CISA flags critical Microsoft SCCM flaw as exploited in attacks

CISA ordered U.S. government agencies on Thursday to secure their systems against a critical Microsoft Configuration Manager vulnerability patched in October 2024 and now exploited in attacks.
marktechpost

Alibaba Open-Sources Zvec: An Embedded Vector Database Bringing SQLite-like Simplicity and High-Performance On-Device RAG to Edge Applications

Alibaba Tongyi Lab research team released ‘Zvec’, an open source, in-process vector database that targets edge and on-device retrieval workloads. It is positioned as ‘the SQLite of vector databases’ ...
VentureBeat

This tree search framework hits 98.7% on documents where vector search fails

A new open-source framework called PageIndex solves one of the old problems of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG): handling very long documents. The classic RAG workflow (chunk documents, calculate ...