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As enterprises begin to deploy and use AI, many realize they’ll need access to massive computing power and fast networking capabilities, but storage needs may be overlooked. Spinning up a chatbot or adopting an AI assistant aren’t likely to tax most enterprises’ storage capacities, but large AI projects with access to millions of data points may require many terabytes of new storage, potentially costing tens of millions of dollars, some AI and storage experts say. A handful of storage options exist, and for some AI functions, cloud storage or traditional hard drives may be adequate, says Jeffr...
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By Lynn Greiner Oracle celebrated the beginning of July with the general availability of three releases of its open source database, MySQL: MySQL 8.0.38, the first update of its long-term support (LTS) version, MySQL 8.4, and the first major version of its 9.x innovation release, MySQL 9.0. While the v8 releases are bug fixes and security releases only, MySQL 9.0 Innovation is a shiny new version with additional features, as well as some changes that may require attention when upgrading from a previous version. The new 9.0 versions of MySQL Clients, Tools, and Connectors are also live, and Ora...
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By Paul Krill Open-source vector database provider Qdrant has launched BM42, a vector-based hybrid search algorithm intended to provide more accurate and efficient retrieval for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications. BM42 combines the best of traditional text-based search and vector-based search to lower the costs for RAG and AI applications, Qdrant said. Qdrant’s BM42 was announced July 2. Traditional keyword search engines, using algorithms such as BM25, have been around for more than 50 years and are not optimized for the precise retrieval needed in modern applications, accordin...
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By Anirban Ghoshal Buoyed by customer demand, SingleStore, the company behind the relational database SingleStoreDB, has decided to natively integrate Apache Iceberg into its offering to help its enterprise customers make use of data stored in data lakehouses. “With this new integration, SingleStore aims to transform the dormant data inside lakehouses into a valuable real-time asset for enterprise applications. Apache Iceberg, a popular open standard for data lakehouses, provides CIOs with cost-efficient storage and querying of large datasets,” said Dion Hinchcliffe, senior analyst at The Futu...
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By Anirban Ghoshal Oracle is adding new generative AI-focused features to its Heatwave data analytics cloud service, previously known as MySQL HeatWave. The new name highlights how HeatWave offers more than just MySQL support, and also includes HeatWave Gen AI, HeatWave Lakehouse, and HeatWave AutoML, said Nipun Agarwal, senior vice president of HeatWave at Oracle. At its annual CloudWorld conference in September 2023, Oracle previewed a series of generative AI-focused updates for what was then MySQL HeatWave. These updates included an interface driven by a large language model (LLM), enabling...
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By Anirban Ghoshal DataStax is updating its tools for building generative AI-based applications in an effort to ease and accelerate application development for enterprises, databases, and service providers. One of these tools is Langflow, which DataStax acquired in April. It is an open source, web-based no-code graphical user interface (GUI) that allows developers to visually prototype LangChain flows and iterate them to develop applications faster. LangChain is a modular framework for Python and JavaScript that simplifies the development of applications that are powered by generative AI langu...
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By Aislinn Shea Wright 35% of enterprise leaders will consider Postgres for their next project, based on this research conducted by EDB, which also revealed that out of this group, the great majority believe that AI is going mainstream in their organization. Add to this, for the first time ever, analytical workloads have begun to surpass transactional workloads. Enterprises see the potential of Postgres to fundamentally transform the way they use and manage data, and they see AI as a huge opportunity and advantage. But the diverse data teams within these organizations face increasing fragmenta...
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By Matthew Tyson Like every other programming environment, you need a place to store your data when coding in the browser with JavaScript. Beyond simple JavaScript variables, there are a variety of options ranging in sophistication, from using localStorage to cookies to IndexedDB and the service worker cache API. This article is a quick survey of the common mechanisms for storing data in your JavaScript programs. JavaScript variablesYou are probably already familiar with JavaScript’s set of highly flexible variable types. We don’t need to review them here; they are very powerful and capable of...
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By Anirban Ghoshal Relational database provider EnterpriseDB (EDB) on Thursday introduced EDB Postgres AI, a new database aimed at transactional, analytical, and AI workloads. EDB Postgres AI, which was internally named Project Beacon during its development, started its life as a data lakehouse project with support for Delta Live Tables and later evolved into a product that combines EDB’s PostgreSQL software and other components such as data lakehouse analytics into a singular unified offering. PostgreSQL, which is an object-oriented relational database, has been gaining popularity because it ...
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By Paul Barker There appears to be many questions and few answers about MariaDB plc’s long-term strategy following an announcement that its shareholders have accepted an offer by California-based investment firm K1 Investment Management. News that the company that provides database and SaaS services around the open-source database MariaDB had been acquired came on Monday, when it was announced that a trio of companies—K1; Meridian Bidco LLC, a K1 affiliate; and K5 Capital Advisors—“now have irrevocable shareholder support in respect of 68.51% of MariaDB shares.” The company has had a litany of...
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