Databricks announced the beta of FILE type, a new native column type for multimodal data that stores unstructured data as a governed column in tables, making it AI-ready and queryable alongside struct…
Milvus 3.0.0, released by the Milvus project on July 29, 2026, extends the open-source vector database with lake-native retrieval, enabling indexing and search over data in open formats like Parquet, …
Zilliz released Milvus 3.0, introducing a lake-native path for indexing vector data in object storage and open table formats such as Parquet, Lance, Iceberg, and Vortex, enabling teams to search lake-…
Chapel 2.9 shipped on June 18 with LLVM 22 and CUDA 13 support, a prototypical dynamic library loading feature for distributed parallel code, a browsable Mason package registry, and union types that h…
Zilliz has launched Milvus 3.0, an update to its open-source vector database that adds lake-native data access and a more expressive retrieval engine for production AI applications. The update enables…
By mid-2026, the agentic AI ecosystem has coalesced around a layered protocol stack—including MCP, A2A, WebMCP, and OSI—that converts the quadratic N×M integration problem into a linear N+M problem. A…
A Pinecone Solutions Engineer developed a set of utilities for generating test data for vector search, including Parquet file generation, embedding creation, and metadata preparation. The tools aim to…
A team of engineers built a minimal feature store from scratch using Python, DuckDB, Parquet, and Redis to solve training-serving skew in machine learning models and provide low-latency user context f…
Apache Iceberg 1.11.0, released on May 19, 2026, introduces major structural changes to enhance security and file format flexibility. Key improvements include native encryption for manifest lists usin…
This article, the final part of a 15-part Apache Iceberg Masterclass, outlines three strategies for migrating existing data to Iceberg: in-place migration, full rewrite, and shadow migration. It expla…