In particular IBM said DataStax’s technology will be built into its watsonx portfolio of generative AI products to help manage the vast amounts of unstructured data used in generative AI application development.
Thousands of organizations including FedEx, Capital One, The Home Depot and Verizon use Apache Cassandra, and it offers scalability, availability, fault tolerance, high performance, and multi-data-center and hybrid cloud support, IBM stated. “Increasingly, Apache Cassandra users are leveraging the database for AI workloads. In this context, DataStax brings together a mature datastore with vector and graphRAG capabilities – a critical combination for harnessing unstructured data for generative AI,” IBM stated.
“Businesses cannot realize the full potential of generative AI without the right infrastructure – open-source tools and technologies that empower developers, harness unstructured data, and provide a strong foundation for AI applications,” Dinesh Nirmal, senior vice president of IBM Software in a statement.
