If you’ve been anywhere near a data team, you already know the existential crisis happening right now. Here are just a few questions data leaders and our partners have shared with us: Why does data governance still feel like a slog? Can AI fix it, or is it making things worse? How do we move […]
Amazon OpenSearch Service vector database capabilities revisited
In 2023, we blogged about OpenSearch Service vector database capabilities. Since then, OpenSearch and Amazon OpenSearch Service have developed to bring better performance, lower cost, and enhanced tradeoffs. We’ve improved the OpenSearch Service hybrid lexical and semantic search methods using both dense vectors and sparse vectors. We’ve simplified connecting with and managing large language models […]
Nexla Expands AI-Powered Integration Platform for Enterprise-Grade GenAI
SAN MATEO, Calif., March 04, 2025 — AI-powered integration company Nexla announced a major update to the Nexla Integration Platform, expanding its no-code integration, RAG pipeline engineering, and data governance capabilities with the intent to make enterprise-grade GenAI more accessible. The Nexla integration platform is the first integration platform powered by AI and built to […]
Best of MWC 2025: 9 most impressive products that stole our attention
Kerry Wan/ZDNET We’re on day two of Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2025, and the news cycle is still churning. Within the first day at the Barcelona trade show, we saw ultra-slim phones, unique laptop form factors, and surprise appearances from Samsung and Nothing. Also: This tri-foldable phone at MWC 2025 is the most bizarre thing […]
Big Data Can Help You Plan for Your High Schooler’s Future
We have talked about a lot of the ways that AI can be used in education. But it can also help parents plan their children’s futures. AI is increasingly becoming a valuable asset for parents to help guide their high schoolers into mapping their futures. As 55% of Americans currently use AI daily, the technology […]
How Rockset built vector search for scale in the cloud
Over the past six months the engineering team at Rockset has fully integrated similarity indexes into its search and analytics database. Indexing has always been at the forefront of Rockset’s technology. Rockset built a Converged Index which includes elements of a search index, columnar store, row store and now a similarity index that can scale […]
What is Data Integrity? Why is it important?
Key Takeaways: Data integrity is achieved when data has maximum accuracy, consistency, and context – giving you the power to trust your data and make better business decisions. The journey to trusting your data can be challenging, but you can more easily and effectively build data integrity when the core capabilities you need work together. […]
Big Data Career Notes for February 2025
(metamorworks/Shutterstock) It’s that time of month again–time for Big Data Career Notes, a monthly feature where we keep you up-to-date on the latest career developments for individuals in the big data community. Whether it’s a promotion, new company hire, or even an accolade, we’ve got the details. Check in each month for an updated list […]
Curating High-Quality Customer Identities with Databricks and Amperity
When we think of use cases like product recommendations, churn predictions, advertising attribution and fraud detection, a common denominator is they all require us to consistently identify our customers across various interactions. Failing to recognize that the same person is browsing online, purchasing in-store, opening a marketing email and clicking on an advertisement, leaves us […]
Using Data Streams for Time Series Data in Elasticsearch and OpenSearch
Elasticsearch Data Streams provide powerful ways to manage time series data and other types of append-only data. In this blog post, we explain the benefits and limitations of data streams and how to select and set up the correct type of data stream for your needs. Although we focus on Elasticsearch throughout this article, everything […]