Data & infrastructure
Honest guide to the best ClickHouse® alternatives in 2026
Firebolt leads our 2026 guide to ClickHouse alternatives for concurrent SQL analytics, with nine options, clear tradeoffs, and a practical evaluation checklist.
Data & infrastructure.
The data foundations and computing systems behind dependable AI.
5 perspectives to explore
Data & infrastructure
Your RAG system needs a freshness contract, not just a vector database
An answer can be grounded in a document and still be out of date. Retrieval systems need ownership, timestamps, and a plan for conflicting sources.
Data & infrastructure
AI readiness starts with a data contract people can understand
Documenting meaning, ownership, and allowed use can prevent an AI project from inheriting invisible assumptions in its source data.
Data & infrastructure
Enterprise search needs to understand meaning and remember the exact part number
Semantic retrieval can bridge phrasing differences, while lexical search preserves the precision of names, identifiers, and specialized terms.
Data & infrastructure
Edge or cloud AI? Start with the workload's constraints
Latency, connectivity, data handling, and maintenance requirements offer a more useful starting point than a blanket deployment preference.