a platform to stack them all
Squirreling is a browser-native SQL engine designed for interactive LLM data exploration, featuring async execution, late materialization, and a minimal 9 KB footprint.
BusterMQ is a NATS-compatible messaging system designed for volatile event ingestion and streaming routing, built with Zig and leveraging io_uring to achieve high throughput up to 8.20 GB/s and low latency.
A Snowflake software update caused a 13-hour outage across 10 regions due to a backwards-incompatible database schema change, disrupting SQL queries and data ingestion via Snowpipe and Snowpipe Streaming.
AWS expands its Well-Architected Framework with a new Responsible AI Lens and updated Machine Learning and Generative AI Lenses, offering technical guidance for designing, deploying, and governing AI systems on AWS.
Cloudflare introduces aggregation query support (GROUP BY, SUM) in R2 SQL, its serverless distributed analytics query engine for data in R2 Data Catalog, enabling reporting and anomaly detection.
Google ADK presents an open-source framework for context engineering in multi-agent systems, featuring a tiered architecture that separates storage from presentation to optimize cost, latency, and relevance.
Dbt Labs announces major updates for December 2025, including Iceberg support in Fusion, enhancements to dbt Catalog for governance, and new AI features in the dbt MCP Server for agentic workflows.
dbt Labs expands its ISO certifications with ISO 27017, ISO 27018, and ISO 42001, enhancing cloud security, personal data protection, and AI governance for its cloud services and AI features like dbt Copilot.
Looker introduces self-service Explores, tabbed dashboards, and custom themes to enhance user experience and analytics automation.
S3NS announces SecNumCloud 3.2 qualification for its PREMI3NS offering, integrating advanced Google Cloud services like BigQuery for data analytics, with enhanced security and immunity to extraterritorial laws.
Spice Cayenne is a next-generation data accelerator designed for multi-terabyte data lake workloads, combining the Vortex columnar format with an embedded metadata engine to deliver faster queries and lower memory usage compared to DuckDB and SQLite.
Google introduces T5Gemma 2, a next-generation encoder-decoder model based on Gemma 3, featuring architectural innovations like tied embeddings and merged attention to reduce parameters, supporting multimodality and extended contexts up to 128K tokens.
Airbyte launches AI-configured connections, replacing traditional forms with a conversational AI assistant that guides users step-by-step through connector setup, offering real-time validation and maintaining data security.
Mistral AI introduces Mistral OCR 3, an OCR model designed for text and image extraction from various documents, featuring 74% improved accuracy over the previous version and competitive pricing at $2 per 1,000 pages.
The Vulcan project provides a high-precision dataset of CO2 emissions across the US with resolution down to city blocks, requiring high-performance computing systems to process terabytes of data for climate change analysis.
ClickHouse Cloud is now available on Azure UAE North, providing real-time analytics with data residency to meet Middle Eastern regulatory requirements and reduce latency for regional applications.
Tributary is a modern dbt docs alternative providing enhanced documentation with column-level lineage, fast search, and impact analysis for dbt projects, without requiring warehouse connections.
Snowflake highlights EmergeGen AI, a startup leveraging LLMs to automate SQL code generation and data transformation, integrated with the Snowflake ecosystem to enhance data engineering efficiency.
Fivetran introduces Quickstart data models as pre-built data products that automate transformations to accelerate analytics and reduce complexity, incorporating best practices and documentation.
Airbyte introduces Agent Connectors, open-source Python SDKs providing AI agents with real-time access to operational data through strongly-typed connectors for systems like Salesforce and GitHub.
Snowflake announces the public preview of Snowflake Postgres, a relational database integrated into its cloud platform, providing native PostgreSQL capabilities with unified scalability and governance.
MotherDuck announces integration with PlanetScale Postgres using pg_duckdb, enabling analytical queries to run on MotherDuck while keeping the Postgres interface, with performance gains up to 200x.
Snowflake introduces Interactive Analytics, a new feature for interactive and high-performance analytical queries optimized for modern data engineering.
AWS re:Invent 2025 features key announcements for data engineering, including new capabilities for data ingestion, real-time processing, and cost optimization in cloud infrastructures.
Snowflake achieves ISMAP certification, enhancing its role as a trusted cloud platform for data management and utilization in Japan, with emphasis on security and compliance.
