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Jun 27, 2024 | thenewstack.io | Rick Houlihan |more. Previously |Rick led the.. |Jonathan Siddharth

Generative AI (GenAI) applications consume data differently than traditional online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads. They process data in small chunks, typically on rows and tables and with relatively simple data structures. Large language model (LLM) training, on the other hand, requires rich document structures or binary objects that can be multiple kilobytes or even megabytes in size.

May 25, 2023 | thenewstack.io | Rick Houlihan |more. Previously |Rick led the.. |Randy Fay

A relational database management system (RDBMS) is great at answering random questions. In fact, that is why it was invented. A normalized data model represents the lowest common denominator for data. It is agnostic to all access patterns and optimized for none. The mission of the IBM System R team, creators of arguably the first RDBMS, was to enable users to query their data without having to write complex code requiring detailed knowledge of how their data is physically stored.