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Big Data

Designing a Retail Data Pipeline for Real-Time Analytics with Alibaba Cloud

This article presents a practical approach to building a retail data analytics pipeline using Alibaba Cloud services.

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.

Bring AI to Your Data: Orchestrating Web Research and Internal Databases with Dify

This articles explains how to build a hybrid AI workflow that integrates internal enterprise databases with external web research using Dify on Alibaba Cloud.

Build a RAG Platform with Hologres and n8n: A Step-by-Step Guide

Learn how to build a RAG platform using Hologres as vector store and n8n for workflow automation.

Using SQL to Call LLMs? Hologres + Model Studio Enables Data Developers to "Talk" Directly to AI

Discover how Alibaba Cloud Hologres + Model Studio lets data teams use plain SQL to call LLMs for PDF analysis, image understanding, and RAG—no GPU, Python, or AI engineering required.

The Enterprise RAG Architecture Guide: Building Production-Grade Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems

Hologres simplifies enterprise RAG by unifying OLAP, vector, and full-text search, enabling scalable hybrid retrieval, real-time updates, lower costs, and easier production deployment.

The Complete Guide to Hybrid Search: The Perfect Blend of Full-Text and Vector Search

Hybrid search combines full-text (lexical) and vector (semantic) search to deliver results that are both precise and intent-aware.

Eliminating Query Timeouts: A Real-world Practice of SLS Materialized View Tuning in High Concurrency Scenarios

This article combines real business scenarios and Result Data to review how we optimized several slow queries that frequently timed out to achieve responses within seconds.

Youngor: How Can the Islands of 300 Million Rows of Data Tables Truly Improve Decision-making Efficiency

Youngor uses Dataphin to integrate 16 systems and 900+ reports, cutting store admin work by 60–70% for smarter retail operations.

Amorepacific: Dataphin Data Fusion Opens a New Paradigm for Intelligent

Amorepacific uses Dataphin's IDMapping and AI to unify customer data for personalized, intelligent beauty marketing.

Fast and Cost-effective: The New Version of SLS LogReduce, an Intelligent Engine That Discovers Patterns from Massive Logs

This article introduces the new version of Alibaba Cloud SLS LogReduce, an intelligent log analysis engine that discovers patterns from massive logs in real time with zero index overhead.

What’s a Vector Database, Really? And Why Your AI Stack Might Be Overcomplicated

Vector databases enable semantic search via embeddings, but a separate vector DB plus OLAP complicates hybrid queries.

Building a Navigation Map for Data Assets: In-Depth Explanation of the Data Discovery and End-to-End Analysis Capabilities of UModel

This article introduces UModel’s data discovery and end-to-end analysis capabilities, enabling unified metadata exploration, relationship mapping, and...

AI Trends Reshaping Data Engineering in 2026

Data engineers: Discover 5 key trends shaping the AI-native era with Alibaba Cloud. AI’s 2025 shift demands unified, real-time, multimodal infrastructure.

From ETL to ELT: Modernising Pipelines for High-Volume Metrics

This article explores how the ELT (Extract, Load, Transform) approach modernizes data pipelines, offering greater scalability, flexibility, and speed for today's demanding analytics workloads.

How Alibaba Cloud Enables Fast, Secure eCommerce Growth in Emerging Markets?

This article introduces how Alibaba Cloud’s tailored, secure, and scalable cloud infrastructure empowers fast eCommerce growth in emerging markets.

Scale Smarter, Not Harder: The 2026 AI Growth Roadmap for SMBs

This article provides an actionable roadmap to empower small and growing businesses to innovate, scale, and thrive in the current economy.

Decoding 2025: 10 Key Insights from the Alibaba Cloud Blog Community

What are developers actually building in 2025? In this article, we summarized ten key insights derived from the top search queries on the Alibaba Cloud Community Blog in 2025.

Beyond Silos: How Unified Multimodal Analytics Is Redefining Data Infrastructure for the AI Era

Hologres 4.0 introduces HSAP 2.0—a unified multimodal analytics platform that consolidates OLAP, vector search, full-text retrieval, and AI processing into a single engine.