Importance of Cassandra in RAG Applications

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Cassandra is extensively used in RAG applications due to its advantage of serving data at the user experience tier that can also be utilized within these applications. More than half of the users signing up for cloud services are involved in RAG applications using vector retrieval, indicating a significant increase in activity over the past year.

DataStax is a generative AI data company that provides tools and services to build AI and other data-intensive applications.

Ed Anuff is the Chief Product Officer at DataStax. He joins the show to talk about making Apache Cassandra accessible, adding vector support at DataStax, envisioning the future application stack for AI, and more.

Full Disclosure: This episode is sponsored by DataStax

Sean’s been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering a wide range of topics from information visualization to quantum computing. Currently, Sean is Head of Marketing and Developer Relations at Skyflow and host of the podcast Partially Redacted, a podcast about privacy and security engineering. You can connect with Sean on Twitter @seanfalconer .