Boost your AI workflow with Ollama, Mistral, and PostgreSQL
Are you looking to boost your AI workflow with powerful language models locally and combine their capabilities with the robustness of a relational database? In this post, I'll explore how to use Ollama with Mistral—a recently introduced open-source large language...
Databases in 2024: The Year of Disruption, License Wars, and Billion-Dollar Moves
In his article, "Databases in 2024: A Year in Review," Andy Pavlo provides a comprehensive analysis of the state of databases in the past year, offering a reflection on the triumphs, struggles, and significant trends that have shaped the industry. The database market,...
2025 Predictions: Vector Technologies and AI Trends to Watch
As 2024 comes to a close, the world of AI and vector technologies stands on the brink of transformational change. What emerging trends will shape the landscape in 2025? From agentic AI systems to the growing importance of unstructured data, the next year promises...
Vector Vanguard: Tracking the Pulse of Vector Tech 11/2024
Welcome to "Vector Vanguard: Tracking the Pulse of Vector Tech 11/2024" - a source for the latest developments in vector databases, vector indexes, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), similarity search, and related technologies that caught my attention in the last...
Vector Vanguard: Tracking the Pulse of Vector Tech 10/2024
Welcome to "Vector Vanguard: Tracking the Pulse of Vector Tech 10/2024" - a source for the latest developments in vector databases, vector indexes, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), similarity search, and related technologies that caught my attention in the last...
Humanizing Data Strategy: A concise summary of Tiankai Feng’s 5 Cs Framework
"Humanizing Data Strategy: Leading Data with the Head and the Heart" by Tiankai Feng focuses on a people-centered approach to data strategy. The book introduces the Five Cs Framework, which highlights five key areas of focus: Competence, Collaboration, Communication,...
Vector Vanguard: Tracking the Pulse of Vector Tech 09/2024
Welcome to "Vector Vanguard: Tracking the Pulse of Vector Tech 09/2024" - a source for the latest developments in vector databases, vector indexes, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), similarity search, and related technologies that caught my attention in the last...
SQL’s unstoppable evolution: DBMS Innovations and how relational DBs outlasted every trend
Michael Stonebraker and Andrew Pavlo wrote about DBMS innovations in their paper "What Goes Around Comes Around... And Around..." which revisits the evolution of data models and database systems over the last 20 years, examining trends and innovations in relational...
Vector Vanguard: Tracking the Pulse of Vector Tech 08/2024
Welcome to "Vector Vanguard: Tracking the Pulse of Vector Tech 08/2024" - a source for the latest developments in vector databases, vector indexes, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), similarity search, and related technologies that caught my attention in the last...
Vector Vanguard: Tracking the Pulse of Vector Tech 07/2024
Welcome to "Vector Vanguard: Tracking the Pulse of Vector Tech 07/2024" - a source for the latest developments in vector databases, vector indexes, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), similarity search, and related technologies that caught my attention in the last...
Oracle AI Vector – Semantic Search
With the advent of Large Language Models (LLM), vector databases are becoming increasingly popular. Vector databases and similar approaches have existed for a long time such as geodata have long been established. Oracle offers since Oracle Database 23ai vector...
Vector Indexes in Vector Databases: Semantic Search Performance
Vector indexes are crucial for semantic search performance, optimizing efficient querying. In this article, I will delve into various types of vector indexes, their workings, pros and cons, and recommendations for their use. The article also provides a practical...