On The Database Market for Analytics. Q&A with Carl Olofson
Q1. What has impressed you most in the last months in the database market? I guess the popular answer would be the infusion of GenAI into the database sphere, but honestly, the degree of...
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InterSystems DACH Symposium 2024
InterSystems DACH Symposium 2024 TO REGISTER LOCATION: Scandic Frankfurt Museumsufer | Wilhelm-Leuschner-Straße 44 | 60329 Frankfurt am Main THEMEN Für alle diejenigen, die in diesem Jahr nicht zum Global Summit nach USA reisen konnten,...
On SingleStore native integration with Apache Iceberg. Q&A with Dave Eyler
Q1. You just announced a native integration with Apache Iceberg. What is Apache Iceberg and what is it useful for? Apache Iceberg is the most popular open-source format for storing massive data sets and...
Scality outperforms 17 competing industry vendors in 2024 GigaOm Radar for Enterprise Object Storage report
Extensive data-driven review process determined Scality a market leader, ranked as an Outperformer in three key categories SAN FRANCISCO – June 18, 2024: Scality, a global leader in cyber-resilient storage for the AI era, announced...
On Open Source Vector Databases. Q&A with Ben Bromhead
Q1. Instaclustr, acquired by NetApp a couple years ago, is now Instaclustr by NetApp—what role does Instaclustr by NetApp serve? Instaclustr by NetApp helps organizations deliver applications at scale by operating and supporting their...
On the Open Source Valkey Project. Q&A with Madelyn Olson
Q1. What makes Redis so special and why is it so popular? Redis became ubiquitous in real-time applications because of its high performance and versatility while still being extremely simple to use. One of...
On Using Unstructured Data to Produce Useful and Meaningful insights. Q&A with Paul Speciale.
Q1. Large language models (LLMs) are the current shining stars and hold incredible potential and promise for business use, leveraging mainly structured (text-based) training data. Are these extravagant promises? We believe there is exceptional potential...
On StarRocks. Q&A with Andy Ye
Q1. What is StarRocks? StarRocks is the only open-source SQL query engine able to run the most demanding data warehouse workloads directly on the data lakehouse, without ingesting into a proprietary data warehouse for...
On Distributed File Systems and Object Storage. Q&A with Paul Speciale
Q1. What is the common definition of distributed file systems and object storage? A distributed file system (DFS) and object storage system is “distributed” over multiple servers and/or locations. This allows users and applications...
On Using Vector Search. Q&A with Tom Dyar and Dirk van Hyfte
Q1: You recently announced the addition of vector search to the InterSystems IRIS data platform. What are the benefits of this addition to the InterSystems IRIS data platform? Thomas Dyar: By integrating vector search into InterSystems IRIS, we can...