Democratizing data with Graph RAG: What it is, What it can do, How to evaluate it
What is Graph RAG, what can it do, and how do you evaluate it? By George Anadiotis Are you interested in making your data more accessible? A rhetorical question indeed. Even if you are well-versed in dark arts such as databases, data modeling, data science and information retrieval, why would you not want to make data […]
Read More →Data Rules: From interoperability to commensurability
“Data Rules” is a book about data, but not just about big data crunching. A book about the relationship of data with economic institutions and society, but also about the interplay with data technologies by which data are being generated and processed. A book that is critical, but not ideological. By George Anadiotis This is how […]
Read More →Universal semantic layer: Going meta on data, functionality, governance, and semantics
What is a universal semantic layer, and how is it different from a semantic layer? Is there actual semantics involved? Who uses that, how, and what for? By George Anadiotis When Cube Co-founder Artyom Keydunov started hacking away a Slack chatbot back in 2017, he probably didn’t have answers to those questions. All he wanted to […]
Read More →Neo4j partners with Microsoft, unfolds strategy to power Generative AI applications with cloud platforms and Graph RAG
From better together to full native integration, Neo4j is creating an ecosystem around all major cloud platforms to enable provide graph-powered features for Generative AI and beyond. Here’s how this aligns with cloud platform AI strategies and what’s next. Hint: Databricks and Snowflake. By George Anadiotis For many organizations today, data management comes down to handing […]
Read More →Data management in 2024. Open data formats and a common language for a sixth data platform
What data management in 2024 and beyond will look like hangs on one question. Can open data formats lead to a best-of-breed data management platform? It will take Interoperability across clouds and formats, as well as on the semantics and governance layer. By George Anadiotis Sixth Platform. Atlas. Debezium. DCAT. Egeria. Nessie. Mesh. Paimon. Transmogrification. This […]
Read More →Aerospike Graph: A new entry in the graph database market, aiming to tackle complex problems at scale
“Graph database growth is going strong through the Trough of Disillusionment.” And “Graph Analytics go big and real-time.” These were two of the headlines of the Spring 2023 update of the Year of the Graph newsletter. In combination, they seem like an appropriate summary of the reasoning behind a new entry in the graph database […]
Read More →Redpanda’s “power to the data engineer” strategy lands a $100M Series C funding round
In an era of dried-up funding and Data Lakehouse vendor supremacy, Redpanda is going against the grain. The company just secured a $100 million Series C funding round to execute on an unconventional strategy. Redpanda Founder and CEO Alex Gallego shares how things work for the company. Back in early 2022, a $50 million Series […]
Read More →The EU AI Act effect: Background, blind spots, opportunities and roadmap
The EU Parliament just voted to bring the EU AI Act regulation into effect. If GDPR is anything to go by, that’s a big deal. Here’s what and how it’s likely to effect, its blind spots, what happens next, and how you can prepare for it based on what we know. The last few months […]
Read More →Heroes journey: Notes towards a Personal Knowledge Graphs Book
The hero’s journey is a common template of stories that involve a hero who goes on an adventure, is victorious in a decisive crisis, and comes home transformed. Writing a book is like a journey too. Writing the first Personal Knowledge Graphs book involved more than one hero and a few crises. Now the PKG […]
Read More →Foursquare moves to the future with a Geospatial Knowledge Graph
From a consumer-oriented application, Foursquare has evolved to a data and product provider for enterprises. The next steps in its evolution will be powered by the Foursquare Graph. Welcome to Orchestrate all the Things, a newsletter with stories about Tech, Data, AI and Media and how they flow into each other shaping our lives. If […]
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