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Surveying The Market Of Database Products

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary Databases are the core of most applications, whether transactional or analytical. In recent years the selection of database products has exploded, making the critical decision of which engine(s) to use even more difficult. What are the aspects of the database market that keep you interested as a VP of product?

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Vector Technologies for AI: Extending Your Existing Data Stack

Simon Späti

The database landscape has reached 394 ranked systems across multiple categoriesrelational, document, key-value, graph, search engine, time series, and the rapidly emerging vector databases. What fundamental differences exist between AI-focused vector databases and analytical vector engines like DuckDB or DataFusion?

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An educational side project

The Pragmatic Engineer

Juraj included system monitoring parts which monitor the server’s capacity he runs the app on: The monitoring page on the Rides app And it doesn’t end here. Juraj created a systems design explainer on how he built this project, and the technologies used: The systems design diagram for the Rides application The app uses: Node.js

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Designing A Non-Relational Database Engine

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary Databases come in a variety of formats for different use cases. The default association with the term "database" is relational engines, but non-relational engines are also used quite widely. Can you describe what constitutes a NoSQL database? document, K/V, graph) change that calculus?

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Data Migration Strategies For Large Scale Systems

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary Any software system that survives long enough will require some form of migration or evolution. When that system is responsible for the data layer the process becomes more challenging. As you have gone through successive migration projects, how has that influenced the ways that you think about architecting data systems?

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Streamline RAG with New Document Preprocessing Features

Snowflake

As organizations increasingly seek to enhance decision-making and drive operational efficiencies by making knowledge in documents accessible via conversational applications, a RAG-based application framework has quickly become the most efficient and scalable approach. Until now, document preparation (e.g.

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Scale Unstructured Text Analytics with Batch LLM Inference

Snowflake

Unstructured text is everywhere in business: customer reviews, support tickets, call transcripts, documents. Meanwhile, operations teams use entity extraction on documents to automate workflows and enable metadata-driven analytical filtering.