Weekly Dose of Data Clarity - 15
- Carol Mitchell-Lin
- Mar 28, 2024
- 2 min read
Updated: Apr 29, 2024
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Buzzword - federated database architecture š¤
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What's Hot āļø
Introducing DBRX: A New State-of-the-Art Open LLM
Ali Ghodsi, co-founder and CEO at Databricks. "We're excited about DBRX for three key reasons:Ā
It beats open source models on state-of-the-art industry benchmarks.
It beats GPT-3.5 on most benchmarks, which should accelerate the trend we're seeing across our customer base as organizations replace proprietary models with open source models.Ā
DBRX uses a mixture-of-experts architecture, making the model extremely fast in terms of tokens per second, as well as being cost effective to serve. (Source:Ā newswire.ca)
Bringing Data Into the Adobe Environment Just Got Easier
Adobe Summit 2024: 5 Top Takeaways from the Digital Experience Conference (So Far!)
Adobeās new Federated Audience Composition solution makes enterprise data ā amassed in warehouses and specialist data stores ā actionable, so it can augment real-time customer journeys while minimizing data copy.
In other words, Adobe is letting customers keep their data residing in a platform like AWS, Databricks, or Snowflake. But, at the same time, enabling them to tap into the intelligence and draft off it. (Source:Ā cxtoday.com)
Snowflake invests in $115M funding round of Observe, a data observability startup
āAt Snowflake we believe thereās no such thing as an AI strategy without a data strategy,ā said Stefan Williams, VP Corporate Development & Snowflake Ventures. āObserve recognised this from the outset and built a data company. Our team has worked closely with Observe as a partner since the companyās founding and with this investment, weāre bolstering that relationship and emphasizing our belief in Observe as the company enters its next stage of rapid growth.ā (Source:Ā techfundingnews.com)
Beyond the Buzzword š¤
A federated database architecture is described in which a collection of independent database systems are united into a loosely coupled federation in order to share and exchange information. (Source: see below)Ā
federated database architecture
For the first use of the phrase, Wikipedia steered us towards this 1985 paper,Ā A Federated Architecture for Information Management. (Source:Ā dl.acm.org/)
CIO Whitepaper: Data architecture and strategy in the AI era š
From the paper, "Although not essential to AI development, federated data strategies enable data understanding at an enterprise scale and accelerate business decisions by putting them in the hands of those best equipped to use them in an agile and flexible manner unfettered by reliance on centralized IT". (Download at Cloudera.com)
Reshaping Major League Baseball with Biomechanics Data ā¾ļø
Biomechanics data rules! You might not be interested in the game, but it's amazing to see what's being done with data in Major League Baseball. (Source:Ā databricks.com)
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