Hologres evolves from a real-time data warehouse into an AI data infrastructure, integrating multimodal data via Object Tables and Dynamic Tables, providing AI Functions for hybrid search within SQL, an AI Assistant for automated warehouse operations, and a long-term memory service for cross-session agent recall.
Alibaba Cloud's EMR Serverless StarRocks Stella 2.2 unifies vector search, full-text search, and AI functions across both internal and lake tables (Paimon, Iceberg, Lance), enabling a single SQL interface for multimodal retrieval, AI-powered analytics, and RAG workloads without data movement.
Apache Doris 4.0 introduces native vector indexes, built‑in AI functions, and hybrid search, turning the OLAP engine into an AI‑centric analytics hub; the article details the technical design, performance optimizations, and real‑world deployments at ByteDance, Squirrel AI, NetEase and a security vendor, highlighting storage savings, query speedups and reduced operational complexity.
This article outlines MaxCompute's decade‑long evolution—from the early PyODPS SDK to the native Distributed Python Engine—highlights the challenges big‑data platforms face in the AI era, and showcases Data+AI solutions and real‑world case studies across multimodal processing, massive text deduplication, and autonomous‑driving data pipelines.
