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Facebook, Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft come together to create the Partnership on AI | TechCrunch
The world's largest technology companies hold the keys to some of the largest databases on our planet. Much like goods and coins before it, data is
NoSQL: The Baby and the Bathwater - Marc's Blog
This is a bit of an introduction to a long series of posts I’ve been writing about what, fundamentally, it is that makes databases scale. The whole series is going to take me a long time, but hopefully there’s something here folks will enjoy.
The Magic of Small Databases
Notes on personal libraries, collections and small indexes on the web
Wikidata
the free knowledge base with 120,900,955 data entities that anyone can edit.
Data integration | Proceedings of the twenty-first ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART symposium on Principles of database systems
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Designing Data-Intensive Applications (DDIA) — an O’Reilly book by Martin Kleppmann (The Wild Boar Book)
NoSQL… Big Data… Scalability… CAP Theorem… Eventual Consistency… Sharding…
Wikidata Launches Free Vector Database as Open Alternative to Closed AI Systems
Wikidata has launched something big.
Open North – Building trust in data, for the common good
Open North is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to advancing the common good. Working alongside governments and civic-minded organizations of all sizes, we provide data expertise to enhance decision-making, drive innovation, optimize public and civic services, and address society's most pressing challenges. Our work focuses on building the capacity of organizations to make better decisions about managing their data so that it is useful, actionable, secure, and trustworthy throughout its entire lifecycle.
A relational model of data for large shared data banks | Communications of the ACM
Future users of large data banks must be protected from having to know how the data is organized in the machine (the internal representation). A prompting service which supplies such information is not a satisfactory solution. Activities of users at ...
Build Your Own Database
A step-by-step guide to building a key-value database from scratch.
Relational lenses | Proceedings of the twenty-fifth ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART symposium on Principles of database systems
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Allegra A. Beal Cohen's blog about knowledge curation, new interfaces, and large-scale qualitative data.
This approach to a data commons could extend to so many typically shared things. For businesses to easily and authoritatively publish things like open hours or product catalogs, discographies, every kind of -ography... creative appmakers could do so much with all that
JB Hutch
Testing an idea that I've had for a while, but I think is even better suited for atproto Internet, meet plts.at
