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June 13, 2022

Why Your Database Needs a Machine Learning Brain

The past 10-15 years have seen organizations put vast resources into creating databases that let them understand their business better, spot trends earlier, and manage tasks more effectively.

Indeed, a whole industry has now grown up around it, not just with database companies like Clickhouse, DataStax, MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SingleStore, or Snowflake, but with a swathe of companies developing business intelligence (BI) tools like Tableau to give insight from the data housed in them.

April 18, 2022

Self-Service Machine Learning With Intelligent Databases

How to Become an Insight-Driven Organization

To become an insight-driven organization (IDO), first and foremost, you need data and the tools to manipulate and analyze it. Another essential component is the people (i.e., data analysts or data scientists) with appropriate experience. Last but not least, you need to find a way to implement insight-driven decision-making processes across your company.

The technology that lets you make the most out of your data is Machine Learning. The ML flow starts by using your data to train the predictive model. Later, it answers your data-related questions. The most effective technology for Machine Learning is Artificial Neural Networks. Their design is influenced by our current understanding of how the human brain works. Given the great computing resources people currently have, it can lead to incredible models trained with a lot of data.

Packages for Store Routines in MariaDB 11.4
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MariaDB 11.4 introduced many advanced features. One that grabbed my attention is the general support of packages for stored routines. Although this was previously available by activating the Oracle compatibility mode, now the feature is available gener... […]
Maintain Chat History in Generative AI Apps With Valkey
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A while back I wrote up a blog post on how to use Redis as a chat history component with LangChain. Since LangChain already had Redis chat history available as a component, it was quite convenient to write a client application. But, that's not the same... […]
Knowledge Graph Enlightenment, AI, and RAG
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In the previous edition of the YotG newsletter, the wave of Generative AI hype was probably at its all-time high. Today, while Generative AI is still talked about and trialed, the hype is subsiding. Skepticism is settling in, and for good reason. Repor... […]
Building an Effective Zero Trust Security Strategy for End-To-End Cyber Risk Management
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You've probably heard a lot about zero-trust security lately, and for good reason. As we move more of our applications and data to the cloud, the traditional castle-and-moat approach to security just doesn't cut it anymore. This makes me come... […]
Phased Approach to Data Warehouse Modernization
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A modernized database will help you focus on building innovative solutions rather than investing your time and effort in managing these legacy systems. Based on the scale of your existing data warehouse processes or jobs, it can be an enormous task to ... […]