An increasing number of new systems are needed to ingest, organize, and query multimodal data in near real-time to feed context-hungry AI, support real-time applications such as industrial infrastructure monitoring, analytics dashboards, and high-throughput event streams. The same underlying trends that spawned database and data infrastructure companies in the last 20 years continue to accelerate as we fully enter the age of AI.
Techniques required for high-performance analytic systems are now well understood, but were previously only…








