The coolest database system companies of the 2026 Big Data 100 include ClickHouse, Couchbase, EDB, MariaDB, MongoDB, Neo4j, Pinecone and Yugabyte.

The personal data that companies collect from consumers online has become a big business referred to as data brokerage. However, most consumers don't know what personal information about them is being ...

In the United States, political campaigns use data on more than 200 million voting-age Americans to inform their strategies and tactics. The two major U.S. parties compete to use the most accurate ...

A trove of breached data, which has now been taken down, includes user logins for platforms including Apple, Google, and Meta. Among the exposed accounts are ones linked to dozens of governments. In ...

When organizations conflate data readiness with knowledge readiness, the AI can access the records but not the judgment ...

The surge in data company acquisitions continued Monday with Snowflake’s purchase of Crunchy Data. Cloud data platform Snowflake announced its intent to acquire Crunchy Data, a Postgres database ...

Your personal data is a highly valuable commodity. Companies often treat it like a resource to be mined and traded. In practice, this means that everything you do on the Internet, what you search, ...

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These days, keeping your personal information safe feels like a losing battle. After all, even someone you've never met can now get access to your home address, phone number, and even employment ...