Category: Expert Articles

Nikesh Kotecha on Blueprint for Trust: How ChatEHR Establishes a Framework for Responsible AI in Clinical Care

Stanford Health Care, part of Stanford Medicine, was awarded a 2025 InterSystems Impact Award for its AXIOM initiative for fast access to electronic health records. In turn, AXIOM underpins the ChatEHR medical chatbot that Nikesh...

Inside PostgreSQL: An Open Source Project’s Growth, Governance, and Future. Q&A with Joe Conway and Robert Treat

“One of the key differences between PostgreSQL and most other Open Source databases is that PostgreSQL is an Open Source project, not an Open Source product.” Q1. What are some of the most anticipated...

On Ontologies and AI.  Q&A with Mattia Ferrini

Q1. You’ve spent two decades working on decision science systems, and ontologies play a critical role in both data management and AI. Can you discuss how you approach the generation and maintenance of ontologies...

On Exasol’s distributed MPP architecture vs. DuckDB. Q&A with Mathias Golombek.

Q1. In your benchmark, one of the most intriguing results was that Exasol’s distributed MPP architecture outperformed DuckDB even on a single server — essentially DuckDB’s “home game.” This challenges the conventional wisdom that embedded...