Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, is empowering enterprises to use various large language models (LLMs) to customize their generative AI capabilities via AnalyticDB vector engine.
Through an innovative integration framework, enterprises can input sector-specific knowledge into their vector databases, enabling them to build and launch generative AI applications in as little as 30 minutes.
Building enterprise-specific generative AI models using fine-tuned training data can be a costly endeavour. However, the one-stop solution powered by AnalyticDB vector engine effectively lowers the financial and technical thresholds while offering strong cloud-native enterprise-level data protections through the Alibaba Cloud database management platform.
AnalyticDB has already been utilized to support customersโ demand in scenarios such as text search and image search on e-commerce platforms with enhanced accuracy.
โAs enterprises globally discern how best to adopt and use generative AI, we are seeing an increasing demand from our customers for database services that can support the creation of efficient, scalable, affordable and customizable AI models. With our upgraded AnalyticDB analytical database, enterprises can now leverage generative AI models that are tailored using their own knowledge base.โย said Feifei Li,ย President of Database Products Business, Alibaba Cloud Intelligence.
Alibaba Cloud also upgraded its one-stop, cloud-native data management and data serving platform by introducing ApsaraDB HTAP (Hybrid Transactional & Analytical Processing), a dynamic solution that integrates cloud-native database PolarDB and cloud-native data warehouse AnalyticDB to provide comprehensive data processing and analysis capabilities to international customers.
โThe trend of cloud-native, data fabric, integration, intelligent is driving the new wave of innovation for databases and has become the de facto standard of database industry. We look forward to further investing in our cloud-native database systems and finding new ways to help our customers grow amidst a rapidly changing business landscape,โย said Feifei.
Alibaba Cloudโs database product offerings support an exceptional amount of business activity worldwide and across a wide range of industries, including insurance, logistics, fintech, retail, education, manufacturing, gaming and more. Alibaba Cloud was named a leader in the Gartnerยฎ Magic Quadrantโข for Cloud Database Management Systems (DBMS) for the third consecutive year in 2022.
โThe acceleration of global digitalization has been a key driver of demand for cloud-native database services, and weโve been working hard to ensure our customers have the solutions they need to thrive. From increasing access to cutting edge technologies and capabilities to working with customers to leverage their data intelligence effectively, the market for database solutions is only set to grow and weโre excited to be supporting businesses capture the resulting opportunities.โย saidย Selina Yuan, President of International Business, Alibaba Cloud Intelligence.
DOKUย is one of Indonesia’s leading payment technology companies serving more than 150,000 merchants and more than 5 million e-wallet users in the country. DOKU looks for reliable, secure, scalable and cost-effective cloud computing services and has deployed a series of Alibaba Cloud products ranging from elastic compute service, network, to database. By adopting Alibaba Cloud database products including PolarDB and ApsaraDB RDS for Redis, Doku benefited from increased stability and the built-in high-availability option. The solutions freed the company’s personnel from many typical database management activities and helped implement a robust disaster recovery strategy.
Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB), headquartered in Hong Kong and one of the worldโs largest commercial Chinese TV program producers, used Alibaba Cloudโs PolarDB to enhance their data management and help scale their services as viewership increased. Notably, PolarDBโs rapid elasticity and large volume storage capacity supported automatic scaling during viewer traffic peaks, while PolarDB ability to sync data allowed TVB to engage in real-time data analysis to improve decision-making.
enish Inc, a mobile game development company in Japan, leveraged Alibaba Cloudโs database solutions to enhance their business insights and game development journey. Alibaba Cloudโs data transmission and PolarDB offerings were combined with AnalyticDB to enable real-time analysis that helped developers enhance the player experience. A test environment for a new game was built in just 10 days, which was half the time it took previously. Moreover, the average data processing time was reduced by 50% while server costs were lowered by 30%.
