Operational Database Management Systems
Q1. The publication of EN 18286 — the AI Quality Management System standard — is a significant milestone for organizations trying to operationalize the requirements of the EU AI Act. For a Chief Risk...
Q1. Aqtra is building a Development Infrastructure Layer that enables organisations, cloud providers, and service partners to create and operate business applications, ERP solutions, portals, and automation services on a common foundation. That is a...
Q1. What failure occurs when AI-assisted decision-making operates without an explicit Feedback layer? The specific failure mode is what I call loop erosion: the system continues to optimize under the assumption that real-world consequences...
“To build a system, you need a team.” Q1. The Bw-tree, which emerged from your Deuteronomy project, won the 2023 ICDE 10-Year Most Influential Paper Award — a recognition that its ideas have proven...
Q1. In 2001, you co-authored the original Semantic Web paper with Tim Berners-Lee and Jim Hendler — a vision for web content that would be meaningful to computers and would enable AI agents to act on...
Federal Way, WA — July 15, 2026 — McObject announces eXtremeDB 9.0, a major update to its embedded database system introducing two significant advancements for developers building intelligent, resource‑constrained systems: native Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN) indexes and a...
Apache Arrow is an open source, language-independent columnar in-memory data format and cross-language development platform for analytics. It enables zero-copy reads and efficient data interchange between systems and languages including Python, R, Java, C++,...
Prefect is an open source workflow orchestration platform for data pipelines and ML workflows. It provides a Python-native API for defining, scheduling, and monitoring workflows, with built-in support for retries, caching, parameterization, and observability....
dbt is an open source transformation framework that enables data analysts and engineers to transform raw data in their warehouse using SQL and Python. It brings software engineering best practices — version control, testing,...
Apache Polaris is an open source catalog for Apache Iceberg tables, providing a centralized metadata layer that enables interoperability across different data lakehouse query engines. It implements the Apache Iceberg REST Catalog specification and...