Six Data Shifts That Will Shape Enterprise AI In 2026
VentureBeat, Wednesday, December 31st, 2025
For decades the data landscape was relatively static. Relational databases (hello, Oracle!) were the default and dominated, organizing information into familiar columns and rows.
That stability eroded as successive waves introduced NoSQL document stores, graph databases, and most recently vector-based systems. In the era of agentic AI, data infrastructure is once again in flux - and evolving faster than at any point in recent memory.