The efficient market hypothesis says you cannot beat the market. Graham, Buffett, and a lineage of growth investors spent decades saying otherwise. So I ran the experiment: grade 250 S&P 500 companies on value, quality, and growth signals, point-in-time, and let a predictive database score all three philosophies against twelve years of real outcomes. The answer surprised the value investor who built it.

Databases are absorbing AI capabilities. A taxonomy of the four categories emerging in 2026: vector databases, ML-in-database platforms, LLM-augmented databases, and predictive databases.