Alice Chambers |
Microsoft Fabric Databases, a new class of cloud databases designed for application developers, is now in preview.
Fabric Databases enables users to bring together transactional and analytical workloads with a built-in vector search, retrieval augmented generation support and Microsoft Azure AI integration.
The first available database is the SQL database, which helps data professionals complete common tasks up to 71 per cent faster. They also reported feeling 84 per cent more confident in these tasks and finding them 91 per cent less difficult, according to Microsoft. More databases will become available soon.
Fabric Databases are a new class of cloud databases that bring together transactional and analytical workloads
Microsoft has also made Fabric Real-Time Intelligence generally available to provide developers with no-code tools to ingest high-volume streaming data. Plus, OneLake catalogue, is a complete solution that explores, manages and governs an entire Fabric data estate.
Fabric Real-Time Intelligence streams data and provides instant insights
Read more: Arun Ulagarathcagan, corporate vice president of Azure data at Microsoft, discusses the Fabric workload enhancements