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Big Data & AI Platform Monthly Newsletter—May 2026

May 2026 Alibaba Cloud Big Data & AI Newsletter: Tech updates, new releases, market trends, and customer practices.

Understanding Fluss Partial Update

Traditional streaming data pipelines often need to join many tables or streams on a primary key to create a wide view.

Why Fluss? Top 4 Challenges of Using Kafka for Real-Time Analytics

Jark Wu Creator of Fluss project The industry is undergoing a clear and significant shift as big data computing transitions from offline to real-time processing.

Apache Fluss(Incubating) vs. Apache Paimon: Two Engines for the Real-Time Lakehouse

Apache Fluss and Paimon:Fluss delivers sub-second real-time data for Flink (reducing state bloat); Paimon is a streaming lakehouse format with ACID and minute-level latency.

AI-Native Ecommerce Analytics with Quick BI

The article introduces Quick BI's Smart Q Skill Package, an AI-native analytics tool that helps ecommerce teams gain actionable business insights via natural language.

One SQL Query to Generate an Ad: How Hologres Unifies Creative Production and Campaign Analytics

Hologres unifies AI-powered ad creative generation and campaign analytics within a single SQL-driven compute engine, closing the loop from "generate →...

Sharing Data Without Risking Leaks? Let Ticket-Based Enhanced Embedding Strike the Perfect Balance

Quick BI's ticket-based enhanced embedding enables secure, personalized data sharing with fine-grained access control.

Lingyang Debuts at the Qwen Conference in Singapore: Quick BI Deconstructs Enterprise-Grade Data Solutions for the AI Era

This article showcases how enterprise-grade data solutions empower AI Agents to deliver trustworthy, actionable business insights.

Personalized Views with Role-Based Permissions: Quick BI Embedded Analytics Transforms User Experience from "Have to Use" to "Want to Use"

Quick BI Embedded Analytics delivers role-based, authentication-free report embedding for personalized, seamless data experiences.

Hologres CLI & Skills: Agent-Ready Infrastructure for Smart Data Warehouse Ecosystem

Empower AI Agents with Hologres CLI & Skills. JSON-first output, 6-layer safety, and auto-optimization.

Pilot the Intelligent Connectivity Era: Alibaba Cloud MQTT + Kafka Car /IoT Real-time Data Analysis Solution

This article presents Alibaba Cloud's integrated solution featuring ApsaraMQ for MQTT and Kafka.

BaoZun × Quick BI: AI Empowering 490+ Premium Brands—Unlocking Data Value Through a "Fast, Stable, and Elegant" Data Experience

This article introduces how BaoZun leverages Alibaba Cloud's Quick BI to empower its portfolio of 490+ premium brand clients.

Building a Cloud-Native Productivity Tracking Architecture for Distributed Teams

This article introduces an Alibaba Cloud reference architecture for real-time, multi-tenant productivity tracking of distributed engineering teams.

Building a RAG Pipeline on Alibaba Cloud with Vector Search

This article introduces building a production-ready RAG pipeline on Alibaba Cloud using Hologres for vector search and Model Studio for embeddings and LLM inference.

Big Data & AI Platform Monthly Newsletter — April 2026

Brought to you by the Alibaba Cloud Big Data & AI Product Team.

Data Development and Governance with Alibaba Cloud DataWorks

This article examines how Alibaba Cloud DataWorks unifies data integration, development, quality, lineage, and service exposure into a single governed...

From "Static Dashboards" to "Decision Engine": Why Your Data Analytics Platform Needs a Professional Upgrade?

This article introduces Quick BI Enterprise Standard Version's evolution from static dashboards to an intelligent, closed-loop decision-making engine.

Hailiang Group × Quick BI: Data-driven "See-Know-Act" to Build an Enterprise-level Intelligent Decision-making Hub

This article introduces how Hailiang Group leverages Quick BI and Hailiang Brain to build a "See–Know–Act" data-driven decision engine across HR, marketing, and logistics.

Quick BI Smart Q V6.1: Making the AI Data Analyst Easier to Use

This article introduces the Quick BI Smart Q V6.1, detailing its five key capabilities that bridge the gap between AI and business logic to transform data analysis.

Quick BI V6.1 Enhances Data Modeling and Analysis, Making Analytics More Accessible, Efficient, and Intelligent

This article introduces the Quick BI V6.1 upgrade, highlighting its new Intelligent Relational Model and AI capabilities that enable zero-threshold data modeling and intelligent analysis.