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epistasis 16 hours ago [-]
> The New Data Foundation for the Agentic Era
Look, this announcement seemed exciting, but I'm significantly less excited when I come across a completely unrelated tie-in to AI.
It breaks the illusion, and I'm reminded that it's just another PR announcement, and this is probably not going to impact my life at all in any way ever. So I'm off to the next article instead of reading any more.
klustregrif 6 hours ago [-]
What makes you say it’s unrelated? At my job currently the core bridge between AI and data goes through ChatGPT and databricks. Even before opening the article my first thought when seeing the title was “I wonder if this is useful for our AI”.
From the sound of it this is just another slight point of friction being removed and we’ll be able to run applications directly against “Postgres in databricks” with no need for ETL between the data and our business chat layer.
Nothing revolutionary, sure. But I have to admit I’m still getting used to the fact that we don’t need anyone developing analytical dashboards or designing sql queries for reports or investigations because you can just ask to get exactly the insights you want and everything gets done by AI, and this is just another step supporting that as the default desire path when building on databricks.
mohsinimam 14 hours ago [-]
Curious how is the final format of the data in LTAP storage - is it columnar? If so then what happens to OLTP performance - the blog and all info speaks to OLAP performance but what about your app
geophph 14 hours ago [-]
Lakebase + Lakehouse = Lake
debarshri 14 hours ago [-]
I want a lakehouse. Cant afford.
geophph 14 hours ago [-]
Warehouse for you
Incipient 11 hours ago [-]
Hey I mean we've been using a fairly basic mssql box for years in a organisation of about 300 and it humms along nicely - granted we have 2 'materialised' aggregate tables/views (done in Python) but the TCO is tiny, and there is very little learning curve.
debarshri 14 hours ago [-]
I'm warehousing since 2010s, need to buy appliances
debarshri 14 hours ago [-]
Shein or temu?
drchaim 15 hours ago [-]
No benchmarks, no pricing, no examples..
zurfer 15 hours ago [-]
Exactly, like SAP HANA stores everything in memory, you get great analytical and transactional performance but good luck financing that at scale
Look, this announcement seemed exciting, but I'm significantly less excited when I come across a completely unrelated tie-in to AI.
It breaks the illusion, and I'm reminded that it's just another PR announcement, and this is probably not going to impact my life at all in any way ever. So I'm off to the next article instead of reading any more.
From the sound of it this is just another slight point of friction being removed and we’ll be able to run applications directly against “Postgres in databricks” with no need for ETL between the data and our business chat layer.
Nothing revolutionary, sure. But I have to admit I’m still getting used to the fact that we don’t need anyone developing analytical dashboards or designing sql queries for reports or investigations because you can just ask to get exactly the insights you want and everything gets done by AI, and this is just another step supporting that as the default desire path when building on databricks.