DuckDB uses RDBMS to attack classic 'small changes' problem in lakehouses

The team behind in-process OLAP database DuckDB has put forward a solution to the "small changes" problem that they say ...

Databricks research shows multi-step agents consistently outperform single-turn RAG when answers span databases and documents

Data teams building AI agents keep running into the same failure mode. Questions that require joining structured data with ...
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Kumo Launches KumoRFM-2, the First Foundation Model to Outperform Machine Learning on Enterprise Data, Scaling to 500 Billion Rows

Kumo, a leader in predictive AI, today announced its launch of KumoRFM-2, the first foundation model to outperform fully supervised machine learning on enterprise relational data. Built by the team ...

Spark creator bags computing gong for making big data a little bit smaller

When Zaharia started work on Spark around 2010, analyzing "big data" generally meant using MapReduce, the Java-based ...
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Generating Excel Reports With Fabric Dataflows Gen2

So many cool Fabric features get announced at Fabcon that it’s easy to miss some of them. The fact that you can now not only generate Excel files from Fabric Dataflows Gen2, but that you have so much ...