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Xin: Vector databases should never have been a separate category
“Vector database should have never been a separate category.”
Xin: Single HTAP database engines compromise ecosystem compatibility and performance
“This is sort of the holy grail of database engineering is, why not build a single system that can do both of this? But it ends up just being a lot of compromises. And one, I think one of the first issue is that, hey, each, they say Postgres has a massive ecosy…”
Xin: Unifying storage delivers 99% of HTAP database benefits
“HTAP wants to build a single engine for both. We think you can get 99% of what you need by unifying the storage and just have a single storage layer.”
Xin: Transcoding database rows to Parquet speeds object storage writes with zero compromise
“And as a matter of fact, once you transcode the data compresses better. So from those services writing to, for example, S three or other data lake, like object stores, you can actually write them faster because now they are now smaller. So there's no. Overhead…”
Xin: Overfitting to Initial Customers Has Far Lower Downside Than Boiling the Ocean
“I think the industry has a sense of, hey, maybe if you overfit to like one or two customers, it's going to be really bad for you. But I think the downside overfitting is much smaller than the upside itself. And if you sort of try to be too ambitious and boil t…”
Xin: Much of traditional software will be rewritten with data and agents
“Actually, I think many of the traditional software will be sort of rewritten with this new paradigm, which is just get the data to be there. And then they slap some agent on top.”
Xin: Every major analytics database engine in traction is a decade old
“Actually, every single database engine out there, especially on the analytics side, are kind of a decade old. Pretty much everything that had reasonable traction are about a decade old.”
Xin: Databricks uses ML models to optimize database algorithms at runtime
“They use that to build a model. Like a machine learning model, not an L, a machine learning model. Machine learning model basically can very, very quickly tell us how any algorithm and how any implementation will perform for any specific type of queries with v…”
Xin: Multiple database query languages are not an issue for AI agents
“Instead of worrying about PostgreSQL and maybe Spark SQL, why not just one? But I don't think that's an issue for agents. Agents are very eloquent in PostgreSQL or Spark SQL. It's never going to get confused. As long as the data is there and it's accessible ag…”
Xin: Customer friction with vendor sprawl forced Modern Data Stack consolidation
“What people eventually run into, It's kind of a question of a unification and consolidation is, hey, do you really need to chop all of this into different pieces and work with so many different vendors and platforms in order to get like a very simple visualiza…”
Xin: AI agent tooling is consolidating like Modern Data Stack did
“I think honestly something like this is probably happening in how many different frameworks do you want to hook up together in order to produce, like do a very simple agent?”
Xin: Databricks launches 15 to 16 million VMs per day across clouds
“So we, on the analytics side, I think we launched Maybe 50 or sixteen million virtual machines a day across all three clouds, so which are one of the biggest compute orchestrators out there. Stuff for sure for CPU compute.”
Xin: Neon is launching 13 million databases per day
“And on Neon, it's actually pretty interesting too. It's launching, I think, thirteen million databases a day now.”
Xin: Optimizing Solely for Tech Companies Impedes Traditional Enterprise Scaling
“One of the challenges I think we probably see, and maybe many newer generation companies are seeing is, so tech companies are very, very different from non-tech companies or traditional enterprises. And if you optimize everything just for tech companies, you m…”