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Kafka's 4.4.0 announcement lists 25 KIPs, including share-group dead-letter queues and opt-in transactional state stores; the 4.3.2 bugfix release fixes two potential data-loss issues in tiered storage.
Databricks has acquired Electric, pairing its WASM-based local Postgres, PGlite, with a real-time sync engine to give AI agents fast local data alongside its centralized Lakebase database.
Databricks has made Lakebase generally available on Azure across 14 regions, completing a multi-cloud rollout of its serverless PostgreSQL database built on technology from its Neon and Mooncake Labs acquisitions.
The third Iceberg Summit in San Francisco brought 70+ sessions and announcements from Snowflake, Google, Dremio, Databricks, and AWS as the open table format's V3 specification reaches production readiness.
MariaDB will merge its relational database with GridGain's in-memory computing platform to target latency-sensitive agentic AI workloads, marking the company's third acquisition in nine months under private equity ownership.