AWS Acquires DuckLabs: What Changes and What Doesn't for DuckDB Users
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AWS Acquires DuckLabs: What Changes and What Doesn't for DuckDB Users
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On August 26th, Mark Raasveldt and Hannes Mühleisen published a very short note on the DuckDB blog: DuckLabs, the company behind DuckDB, is becoming a subsidiary of Amazon Web Services. The deal closes in early September.
I read it more carefully than usual because at CARTO we’ve been using DuckDB for a relatively short time, and I’ve written here about file formats and performance and about the httpfs proxy mess. When you adopt a piece of software in production and months later a hyperscaler buys it, the least you can do is sit down and read the fine print.
Amazon S3 Vectors: Native vector storage in the cloud
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Amazon has taken an important step in the world of artificial intelligence with the launch of S3 Vectors, the first cloud storage service with native support for large-scale vectors. This innovation promises to reduce costs by up to 90% for uploading, storing, and querying vector data.
What are vectors and why do we care?
Vectors are numerical representations of unstructured data (text, images, audio, video) generated by embedding models. They are the foundation of generative AI applications that need to find similarities between data using distance metrics.