Data Management News for the Week of November 6; Updates from Confluent, Google Cloud, Snowflake & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable data management news for the week of November 6, 2026.

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SR Expert Network: The Loom, The Car & the Modern Data Engine by Dr. Joe Perez

As a data professional who has spent decades helping organizations untangle their messy systems, I find this history utterly captivating. The story of Toyota is not just a great piece of business trivia. It is the ultimate blueprint for how we should be thinking about modern data management and data governance.

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SR Expert Network: High Availability is Not Set & Forget: How to Validate Before an Outage by SIOS Technology’s Cassius Rhue

From my view of the chess board, data sovereignty is usually explained through the lens of regulation and geography. That is, companies needed to know where sensitive information was stored, which jurisdiction governed it, and whether their infrastructure complied with applicable requirements.

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Data Management News for the Week of November 6, 2026

AWS Adds Managed Hive-To-Iceberg Migration In Amazon S3 Tables

Amazon S3 Tables now manages migration of Hive tables to Apache Iceberg, validating, converting, and copying data while production workloads continue running. Teams can review progress, resynchronize source changes, and roll back to source data, paying only for copied data rather than the conversion itself. Available in 10 AWS Regions, the service initially supports Glue-registered Hive tables stored as Parquet within the same account and Region.

Read on for more→ Amazon S3 Tables Now Provide a Simple, Cost-Effective Path for Data Lake Modernization

Confluent Introduces Streamhouse Architecture And Live Query Layer For Enterprise AI

Confluent has introduced its Streamhouse architecture, combining streaming, connectivity, processing, governance, and querying to give agents and applications a continuously updated view of business operations. Lightning Tables, now generally available on AWS, materializes Kafka data into a read-only serving layer with SQL and API access, reducing the need for separate databases or caches. The architecture complements existing warehouses and lakehouses, while Tableflow serves analytical systems and Real-Time Context Engine supplies agents through MCP.

Read on for more→ Confluent Introduces Its Streamhouse Architecture to Power AI With Real-Time Business Context

Databricks Makes Serverless Lakebase Postgres Generally Available On Google Cloud

Lakebase Postgres is now generally available on Google Cloud, bringing managed transactional databases onto the Databricks platform alongside analytics and AI. Autoscaling, scale-to-zero, instant database branching, and point-in-time recovery reduce infrastructure administration, while Unity Catalog provides shared access controls and auditing. Available in five regions, the service offers multi-zone high availability backed by a 99.99% SLA; private connectivity through Google Cloud Private Service Connect remains in beta.

Read on for more→ Lakebase Postgres Is Now Generally Available on Google Cloud

EDB Acquires Altinity To Connect PostgreSQL Transactions With ClickHouse Analytics

EDB is acquiring ClickHouse specialist Altinity to combine PostgreSQL transactional processing with real-time analytics in customer-controlled AI data environments. Altinity will become EDB’s Real-Time Analytics group, with existing leadership, contracts, service levels, and products unchanged in the near term. The integration roadmap includes a shared Apache Iceberg catalog and consistent access controls, aiming to reduce data movement across operational systems and lakehouses. EDB plans integrated enterprise ClickHouse capabilities in Q4 2026, with deployment availability detailed as offerings emerge. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Read on for more→ EDB Buying Altinity to Integrate PostgreSQL With ClickHouse

Google Expands Agentic Data Cloud With Cross-Cloud Context And Agent-Scale Databases

Google has expanded its Agentic Data Cloud with generally available cross-cloud interconnect and caching for AWS and Azure, direct Iceberg access in AlloyDB, and new Knowledge Catalog capabilities. Preview features add self-learning context enrichment, reusable context sets, and a studio where stewards review, approve, version, and roll back updates. Infrastructure additions include AlloyDB Express in preview for rapid development and scale-to-zero operation, alongside generally available BigQuery Graph.

Read on for more→ What’s New Across Google’s Agentic Data Cloud

Modern Data Company Launches Conversational Analytics Grounded In Governed Data Products

The Modern Data Company has launched Dex, a conversational AI experience for DataOS that answers business questions using established metrics, relationships, quality controls, and source information. Available now to DataOS customers, Dex shows the definitions, filters, and underlying data behind answers and identifies when governed information cannot support a reliable response. Runtime access controls—not model instructions—determine what users can see.

Read on for more→ The Modern Data Company Launches Dex, Conversational AI That Knows When It Has the Answer and Admits When It Doesn’t

NetApp Acquires PEAK:AIO To Advance Metadata And Parallel File Storage For AI

NetApp has completed its acquisition of PEAK:AIO, adding metadata services and parallel namespace technology to its ONTAP-based architecture and NetApp Novus roadmap. Separating metadata from data is intended to improve concurrency and keep large GPU fleets supplied as file counts and shared-storage demands grow. The acquisition targets AI clouds and GPU-as-a-service providers while preserving enterprise security, resilience, and management.

Read on for more→ NetApp Completes Acquisition of PEAK:AIO to Accelerate Zettabyte-Scale AI Deployments

Nutanix Expands Partner Program With Systems Integrator Incentives And Verified Services

Nutanix has expanded its FY27 Elevate Partner Program to include systems integrators, adding referral incentives and opportunities to differentiate through Powered by Nutanix: Verified Services. The program rewards qualifying new business, expansion, growth, and renewals while helping partners build services around hybrid cloud, modernization, and enterprise AI. Planned Partner Central enhancements include an AI-powered Deal Coach later this fiscal year and customer-authorized visibility into selected environment health, adoption, and lifecycle signals. Benefits remain subject to eligibility, regional availability, and program terms.

Read on for more→ One Platform. One Program. More Ways to Grow.

Percona Makes Local Full-Text, Vector, And Hybrid Search Generally Available For MongoDB

Percona Search for MongoDB is now generally available, combining the mongot search engine with Percona Server for MongoDB and operator-managed deployment. Teams can generate embeddings locally through providers including Ollama, vLLM, LocalAI, and Hugging Face TEI, keeping document text inside their infrastructure and supporting air-gapped operation. The source-available offering is free to use without deployment limits or license-gated features, with optional support. Search-tier backup and recovery through Percona Backup for MongoDB and monitoring through PMM remain on the roadmap.

Read on for more→ Percona Announces General Availability of Percona Search for MongoDB

Precisely And ASUG Find SAP Modernization Progress Alongside Limited AI Autonomy

Precisely and ASUG’s latest research found that 67% of respondents have fully or partially migrated to SAP S/4HANA, up from 59% in 2025, while 53% identify ECC customizations as the leading migration challenge. AI is entering SAP workflows, but only 3% report fully automated, AI-driven processes; 46% use it across automated and human-assisted tasks. Best-of-breed automation adoption rose to 33% from 19%, while 83% consider master-data cleansing important, underscoring the connection between modernization, trusted data, and controlled AI adoption.

Read on for more→ New Research From Precisely and ASUG Reveals SAP Modernization Momentum as AI Adoption Accelerates and Migration Challenges Intensify

Redis Expands Iris With Agent Routing, Reusable Playbooks, And Governed Memory

Redis has expanded Iris into six composable capabilities spanning request routing, reusable procedures, persistent memory, governed context access, observability, and agent communication. Intent Router, Agent Playbooks, Agent Memory, and Context Gateway are generally available, helping teams reuse approved answers, retain relevant information with provenance, and control access to connected sources. Lens, which traces outcomes to their supporting context, and Agent Mesh, which supports resilient delegation and handoffs, remain in beta.

Read on for more→ Redis Expands Redis Iris to Give AI Agents the Memory, Context, and Messaging They Need for Production

Snowflake Adds Scheduled Engineering Agents And Expands Real-Time Data Infrastructure

Snowflake has made CoCo Cloud Agents and Automations generally available, allowing scheduled agents to investigate pipeline failures and propose repairs inside isolated environments, with engineers reviewing production changes. Pipeline Builder and GitHub integration are in public preview, while generally available Elastic Channels and Interactive Analytics connect streaming ingestion with low-latency serving. Kafka-compatible Datastream is coming to public preview, and Streaming Transformations remains in private preview.

Read on for more→ Snowflake Delivers the Foundation for Autonomous Data Engineering, Powering the Agentic Enterprise With Trusted, Live Data

Spark 4.3 Adds Stateful Real-Time Processing And History-Preserving Data Pipelines

Apache Spark 4.3, announced for Databricks Runtime 19, extends Real-Time Mode with aggregations, deduplication, and custom stateful processing, achieving sub-150-millisecond P99 latency across three representative benchmarks. The release also adds SCD Type 2 support to Auto CDC for retaining record history, opt-in Project Feather optimizations for small-data development, and improved Spark Connect observability. Expanded SQL capabilities simplify nested-data and temporal analysis, with ASOF joins and nanosecond timestamps in preview.

Read on for more→ Introducing Apache Spark 4.3—Now Available in Databricks Runtime 19

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