Industry discussions about what’s holding back AI often focus on security, graphics processing unit availability and other infrastructure-level issues, but in most cases, data is what keeps chief ...

This is a performance testing framework for Spark SQL in Apache Spark 2.2+. The framework contains twelve benchmarks that can be executed in local mode. They are organized into three classes and ...

Aaron Erickson explains how NVIDIA designs and tests purpose-built AI agent hierarchies. For senior developers and architects ...

It is no longer difficult to have AI write SQL. If you instruct it to 'show last month's sales,' it will return a plausible SQL query. If you run it, you get numbers. However, can you judge whether ...

SlothDB is a from-scratch C++20 embedded SQL database in active development. Same model as DuckDB and SQLite: query Parquet, CSV, JSON, Arrow, Avro, SQLite, and Excel files directly with SQL, ...

Data teams building AI agents keep running into the same failure mode. Questions that require joining structured data with unstructured content, sales figures alongside customer reviews or citation ...

When you type a query into a search engine, something has to decide which documents are actually relevant — and how to rank them. BM25 (Best Matching 25), the algorithm powering search engines like ...

Last month, a friend called me in a panic. His company had deployed an AI agent that helped customers query their account data. Worked great in demos. Passed QA. Everyone was happy. Then someone typed ...

Why is the language developers and DBAs use to organize data such a mess? Here are 13 reasons we wish we could quit SQL, even though we probably won't. For all its popularity and success, SQL is a ...

As we begin a new year in 2025, many of you are looking at new projects, new applications, trying to determine how to integrate AI into your business, modernizing your data estate, or considering an ...