Akmal Chaudhri

CORE

Senior Technical Evangelist @ SingleStore

London, GB

Joined Oct 2014

https://medium.com/@VeryFatBoy

About

I help build global developer communities and raise awareness of technology through presentations and technical writing. I have over 25 years of experience in IT. I have previously held roles as a developer, consultant, product strategist, evangelist, technical writer and technical trainer with several Blue Chip companies and Big Data startups. I have regularly presented at many international conferences and served on the program committees for several major conferences and workshops. I have published widely and edited or co-edited ten books. I hold a BSc (1st Class Hons.) in Computing and Information Systems, MSc in Business Systems Analysis and Design and a PhD in Computer Science. I am a Member of the British Computer Society (MBCS) and a Chartered IT Professional (CITP).

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Ollama + SingleStore - LangChain = :-(

Previously, we saw how LangChain provided an efficient and compact solution for integrating Ollama with SingleStore. But what if we were to remove LangChain?

May 31, 2024

· 1,729 Views · 1 Like

How To Build Local LLM Apps With Ollama and SingleStore

In this article, we will explore how to use Ollama with LangChain and SingleStore using a Jupyter Notebook.

May 17, 2024

· 1,345 Views · 1 Like

Using Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN) Search With SingleStoreDB

In this article, we'll evaluate ANN Index Search with the new VECTOR data type using the Fashion MNIST dataset from Zalando.

January 22, 2024

· 1,479 Views · 2 Likes

Dot Product, Euclidean Distance, and Cosine Similarity in SingleStoreDB

In the below article, learn examples of using Dot Product, Euclidean Distance, and Cosine Similarity in SingleStoreDB to assess vector relationships.

January 8, 2024

· 2,600 Views · 2 Likes

Streaming Data From MongoDB Atlas to SingleStore Kai Using Kafka and CDC

Learn how to use the new SingleStore CDC solution.

January 4, 2024

· 2,836 Views · 1 Like

Analyzing Stock Tick Data in SingleStoreDB Using LangChain and OpenAI's Whisper

Talk to SingleStoreDB about stock tick data using LangChain and OpenAI's Whisper.

September 17, 2023

· 2,551 Views · 1 Like

Using OpenAI Embeddings Search With SingleStoreDB

In this article, we'll test the ability of SingleStoreDB to store and query the OpenAI Wikipedia Vector Database dataset.

May 24, 2023

· 2,696 Views · 2 Likes

Turbocharge Your Application Development Using WebAssembly With SingleStoreDB

In this article, learn how to build a Wasm UDF to perform sentiment analysis on data already stored in SingleStoreDB.

October 7, 2022

· 5,421 Views · 1 Like

How to Install SingleStoreDB in a Virtual Machine

No-risk, low-cost way to evaluate SingleStoreDB

July 10, 2022

· 5,148 Views · 2 Likes

Quickstart to Using SingleStoreDB, MindsDB, and Deepnote for Data Science

Build a quick data science stack

Updated June 15, 2022

· 6,415 Views · 2 Likes

Image Classification Using SingleStore DB, Keras, and Tensorflow

Follow along in this tutorial to learn how to store Fashion MNIST images and ML predictions in SingleStore DB.

Updated May 13, 2022

· 7,162 Views · 3 Likes

Using SingleStore DB, Spark and Alternating Least Squares (ALS) To Build a Movie Recommender System

Follow an example of building a movie recommender system to learn more about how to execute machine learning code directly in SingleStore DB.

March 24, 2022

· 3,509 Views · 3 Likes

Using SingleStore DB as a JSON Document Database

Learn how to store, retrieve and query JSON data using SingleStore DB

Updated March 21, 2022

· 11,368 Views · 7 Likes

Using SingleStore DB for Full-Text Index and Search

This post continues our exploration of the multi-model capabilities of SingleStore DB. Here, discuss SingleStore DB's support for Full-Text Index and Search.

Updated March 21, 2022

· 5,646 Views · 3 Likes

Using SingleStore as a Geospatial Database

It's about space! Learn how to use geospatial data and perform geospatial queries in an extended example with the help of SingleStore, Folium, and Streamlit.

February 17, 2022

· 10,614 Views · 3 Likes

Using SingleStore as a Time Series Database

Exploring SingleStore's support for Time Series data by using S and P 500 stock data from Kaggle. We'll build a quick dashboard to visualize candlestick charts.

February 9, 2022

· 4,561 Views · 3 Likes

Connect Streamlit to SingleStore

Get great visualizations in minutes! This article will show how SingleStore can be quickly used with an open-source application framework called Streamlit.

February 4, 2022

· 4,300 Views · 3 Likes

Using SingleStore as a ML Feature Store

SingleStore comes to the Feast

February 2, 2022

· 4,065 Views · 4 Likes

Using SingleStore as a Kafka Producer

Previously, we learned to ingest data from a Kafka cluster using SingleStore pipelines. Today, we'll see how to push data from SingleStore to a Kafka cluster.

January 26, 2022

· 5,396 Views · 2 Likes

How To Use SingleStore Pipelines With Kafka, Part 3 of 3

This series of articles looks at the SingleStore feature called Pipelines. Today, learn how to replace the Consumer part of a Producer-Consumer with a SingleStore Pipeline.

January 19, 2022

· 3,659 Views · 4 Likes

How To Use SingleStore Pipelines With Kafka, Part 2 of 3

This series of articles looks at a compelling feature of SingleStore called Pipelines. Here in Part 2, learn about Producer-Consumer using Java and JDBC.

January 13, 2022

· 3,674 Views · 4 Likes

How To Use SingleStore Pipelines With Kafka, Part 1 of 3

This series of articles looks at a compelling feature of SingleStore called Pipelines. Here in Part 1, learn how to load some sensor data into SingleStore.

January 6, 2022

· 5,085 Views · 4 Likes

How To Use SingleStore With Spark ML for Fraud Detection

In this final part of our Fraud Detection series, we’ll use Spark to build a Logistic Regression model from data stored in SingleStore.

November 25, 2021

· 7,874 Views · 2 Likes

How To Use SingleStore With Spark ML for Fraud Detection

In this second article in our Fraud Detection series, we’ll load credit card data into our Spark environment.

November 16, 2021

· 7,597 Views · 2 Likes

How to Use SingleStore With Spark ML for Fraud Detection

In this 3-part series of articles, we’ll see how easy it is to use the SingleStore Spark Connector and the performance benefits it provides.

November 9, 2021

· 7,921 Views · 2 Likes

Using GridGain With Kafka Connector

We look at how to integrate two interesting big data technologies that allow data professionals to work with streaming data.

January 3, 2019

· 7,167 Views · 13 Likes

Apache Ignite Transactions Architecture: Concurrency Modes and Isolation Levels

We continue our series on how to use Apache Ignite while working APIs by looking at the main locking modes and isolation levels supported by Apache Ignite.

February 8, 2018

· 9,555 Views · 8 Likes

In-Memory Technologies: Meeting Healthcare's Fast Data Challenges (Part 2)

Learn about a healthcare case study from a company called e-Therapeutics, which specializes in drug discovery and development, and see how they used Apache Ignite.

December 28, 2017

· 5,988 Views · 2 Likes

Getting Started With Apache Ignite (Part 1)

In this series of articles, I will share what I learned about Apache Ignite as a beginner, starting with clustering and deployment.

May 29, 2017

· 16,491 Views · 17 Likes

Comments

A Comparison of SQL and NoSQL to Simplify Your Database Decision

May 10, 2017 · Chris Brumfield

There are also other considerations when choosing technology, such as skills, long-term vendor survival, so on. I have been tracking NoSQL databases since early 2012, collecting publicly available data on skills and vendors. Considerations and summary of data in Section 2 of this very large slide deck: Considerations for using NoSQL technology on your next IT project Data last updated in August 2016, so due for a major update.

NoSQL Database Types

Mar 06, 2016 · Arno Meysman

I have been tracking NoSQL databases for several years, collecting publicly available data on skills and vendors. The NoSQL market is still tiny. Considerations and summary of data in Section 2 of this very large slide deck: Considerations for using NoSQL technology on your next IT project. Slides regularly updated with new data as I find it.

Executives' Perspectives on the Evolution of Data Management

Feb 12, 2016 · Tom Smith

Did you also look at security issues?

Query JSON Using SQL With Couchbase Query Workbench

Jan 26, 2016 · Sam Atkinson

Developer mindset for one. The fact that SQL was originally designed for relational databases and extending it for use for NoSQL is not necessarily the way forward. And there are plenty of good points in several LinkedIn discussion threads. Have a read:

Is N1QL more then SQL-92 ?

You really believe that SQL is a good query language for: XML, JSON, graphs, !??? Really !??? In 2016 !???

How to kill NoSQL (if I were Oracle..)

And there may be other hidden costs as well, some of which are discussed here:

The hidden costs of NoSQL

Another issue is performance. I have read in a few places that N1QL performance is very poor. How about Couchbase publishing some performance numbers for N1QL production deployments or comparing their N1QL implementation against relational systems or Cassandra CQL?

Query JSON Using SQL With Couchbase Query Workbench

Jan 17, 2016 · Sam Atkinson

There are also dangers with using SQL on NoSQL. Two articles that discuss some of the issues:

Using SQL techniques in NoSQL is OK, right? WRONG

and

Don’t Be Fooled By Facades

Whilst the discussion is more about Cassandra CQL, the issues may still be relevant to N1QL as well.

Why MongoDB is the Way to Go

Oct 21, 2015 · Davis Kerby

There are also other considerations that people may need to think about, such as skills, vendor funding, performance, security, so on. MongoDB may not do so well in those areas. I have been tracking NoSQL databases for several years, collecting publicly available data on skills and vendors. The NoSQL market is still tiny. Considerations and summary of data in Section 2 of this very large slide deck: https://speakerdeck.com/abchaudhri/considerations-for-using-nosql-technology-on-your-next-it-project-1 Slides regularly updated with new data as I find it.

Bean Validation: Integrating JSR-303 with Spring

Jun 15, 2015 · Uri Boness

Don't forget that skills are also important. Also, long-term vendor survival. I have been collecting public data on NoSQL skills and vendors for several years. Summary in Section 2: Considerations for using NoSQL technology on your next IT project.

Moving Windows

Mar 09, 2015 · Mr B Loid

There are often many more things to think about, such as skills, vendor capitalization/funding, and so on. I have collected some publicly available data in section 2 of this slide deck: Considerations for using NoSQL technology on your next IT project.