VentureBeat June 26, 2024
Oracle is expanding its HeatWave cloud database service with a set of new generative AI services, known collectively as HeatWave GenAI.
The HeatWave platform was formerly branded as MySQL HeatWave. It provides a cloud managed extended version of the MySQL database with both transactional and analytical database functionality. Last year Oracle extended the platform with the HeatWave Lakehouse, which provides data lakehouse capabilities.
With HeatWave GenAI, Oracle is bringing vector processing and advanced AI functionality to the database. While there is no shortage of database vendors adding vector support to help enable gen AI and retrieval augmented generation (RAG), few if any vendors are actually integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) directly as an in-database capability. That’s what Oracle is...