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Data Federation, Acceleration, and SQL Query

• Reverse-ETL (opens in a new tab): Serve data from warehouses and data lakes to operational systems, applications, and dashboards, eliminating complex pipelines.
• ETL-free Workflows and Data Migrations (opens in a new tab): Enable data migrations and workflows without ETL federating legacy and modern systems for faster time-to-market and lower operational overhead.
• Database CDN (opens in a new tab): Locally replicate working sets of data for operational applications, caching dynamic data for high performance, low-latency, and resilience.
• Data Mesh (opens in a new tab): Unified data access across disparate sources with acceleration.
• Object-Store Native Database (opens in a new tab): Federates, accelerates, and queries object-store data for real-time data access without centralized warehouses.

Search and Retrieval

• Enterprise Search (opens in a new tab): Semantic and full-text-search search with hybrid vector and keyword capabilities.
• Object-Store Native Search (opens in a new tab): Enables SQL queries, hybrid search, and LLM inference on object-store data for security applications, delivering real-time insights.
• Simplifying Real-Time Data Collection and Search (opens in a new tab): Processes streaming and static data with integrated search for real-time insights in health-tech, focusing on application logic.

Retrieval-Augmented-Generation (RAG)

• RAG for Contextual Applications (opens in a new tab): Combines structured and unstructured data for context-rich AI outputs in SaaS chatbots, enhancing user interactions.
• RAG for AI-Powered Reporting (opens in a new tab): Generates dynamic, context-aware AI-driven reports for operational insights in health-tech, ensuring compliance and precision.

AI Applications and Agents

• Real-Time Decision-Making for Intelligent Applications (opens in a new tab): Powers instant, context-aware decisions for security applications by grounding AI in federated, low-latency datasets.
• Edge-Enabled AI Applications and Agents (opens in a new tab): Deploys AI applications across cloud and edge for low-latency decisions in security IoT use cases.
• Tool-Augmented AI with Model Context Protocol Server (opens in a new tab): Extends AI with custom tools via MCP server in finserv, integrating domain-specific APIs for enhanced functionality.
• Agentic AI Applications and Agents (opens in a new tab): Builds intelligent, autonomous agents for SaaS applications, enabling context-aware automation and decision-making.