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Apple Acquires New Database App
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lovehateapple
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Maybe Apple plans to make their own embedded database designed to be more integrated with CloudKit.
Oh wow, this is exciting! Here is the repo of the open source company.
It is a Cypher-language graph database like Neo4J that operates more like DuckDB (no centralized server): https://github.com/kuzudb/kuzu
Some of the website is still up here: https://kuzudb.github.io/docs/get-started/
It is a Cypher-language graph database like Neo4J that operates more like DuckDB (no centralized server): https://github.com/kuzudb/kuzu
Some of the website is still up here: https://kuzudb.github.io/docs/get-started/
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Apple probably tested out a bunch of similar tech and liked this one the most. Not obvious how it's any better/nicer than PostgreSQL (it can do more than you'd think; Apple already uses it everywhere).
My initial guess is it's for their LLM AI; to remember (in an organized, searchable form) all the "personal context" information it absorbs. IIRC, LLM tech is still struggling to add long-term memory store, so it's probably being delegated to a tech with strong synergy.
There may be some VR applications as well, for managing virtual objects.
Not too familiar with Swift, but maybe they're adding a(nother) native db class, kinda like how Javascript has IndexedDB. Would be great for developers across the board.
Apple definitely acquired them to avoid future drama; not wise to have a critical part of your business be external (*cough* manufacturing *cough*)
My initial guess is it's for their LLM AI; to remember (in an organized, searchable form) all the "personal context" information it absorbs. IIRC, LLM tech is still struggling to add long-term memory store, so it's probably being delegated to a tech with strong synergy.
There may be some VR applications as well, for managing virtual objects.
Not too familiar with Swift, but maybe they're adding a(nother) native db class, kinda like how Javascript has IndexedDB. Would be great for developers across the board.
Apple definitely acquired them to avoid future drama; not wise to have a critical part of your business be external (*cough* manufacturing *cough*)
TheIntruder
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Bento didn't fare well in the marketplace, and FMP, as a company, is even farther removed now from the user base it targeted.
And Apple doesn't seem to know, or care, what its subsidiary does.
Even if it is, it won't benefit anyone but the narrower market that FMP now serves.
Someone needs to put up a virtual "Three Billboards Outside Santa Clara" website counting the days since FMP teased the free individual user/hobbyist license that turned out to be vaporware.
FileMaker is a somewhat weak analogy.
Kuzu was the kind of software that will enable connecting our apps together robustly to make a personal knowledge graph. It is a bit like what Obsidian does but can be more. This is how Google Maps and Apple Maps are made.
Something like Kuzu could allow AI or user interfaces to find a faithful path around our apps/lives when there aren't conventional clues to help it guess where to go next.
Kuzu was the kind of software that will enable connecting our apps together robustly to make a personal knowledge graph. It is a bit like what Obsidian does but can be more. This is how Google Maps and Apple Maps are made.
Something like Kuzu could allow AI or user interfaces to find a faithful path around our apps/lives when there aren't conventional clues to help it guess where to go next.
