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Re: Launch HN: MindsDB (YC W20) – Machine Learning Inside Your Database

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Is it possible do the anomaly deduction with clickhouse data?

This is actually the next milestone in our time series roadmap, so you can expect it to be possible rather soon :)

We are also looking for it.. How to track this feature's progress.. is there a roadmap or github issue for this..

Re: Launch HN: MindsDB (YC W20) – Machine Learning Inside Your Database

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Looks super interesting! I'm quite literally the ideal user you describe, and I can't wait to try this out. If I can get any meaningful outputs from my databases thank to mindsdb I'll be super happy. Also, good idea the hosting, I am currently struggling in training my models as I don't have the needed processing power, instead of bulding a new PC for ML tasks I would very likely happily consider hosting the heavy li…

If you're interested in participating in a "beta" release of that, we have a newsletter: https://mindsdb.com/newsletter/ where I'm 99% sure it will be announced, and in case you don't get a code ping me and I'll send you one :)

But the timeline for when to release this is still inexact, since ideally I want the "beta" to be as stable as possible, as to not have to get people to migrate to a different version later.

Also, if you have the time to share your usecase in like 3-4 paragraphs please do, either here or email me, because we design this with users in mind at the end of the day.

Re: Launch HN: MindsDB (YC W20) – Machine Learning Inside Your Database

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How does it compare to Apache MADlib? It allows to do ML in the database with SQL interfaces, and has been around for a few years.

As far as I can tell MADlib is not automl, it just provides various statistic analysis and "classical" ml algorithms as function/macros in various database, and integration seems to be quite different from the way we do it (and I'd say more complex for the user, but maybe that's just my bias talking).

So I don't think there's a lot of overlap there. But if you think otherwise and work on it or know someone that does, I'd be quite excited to have a chat, just to share experiences and tips if nothing else.

Re: Launch HN: MindsDB (YC W20) – Machine Learning Inside Your Database

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Looks super interesting! I'm quite literally the ideal user you describe, and I can't wait to try this out. If I can get any meaningful outputs from my databases thank to mindsdb I'll be super happy. Also, good idea the hosting, I am currently struggling in training my models as I don't have the needed processing power, instead of bulding a new PC for ML tasks I would very likely happily consider hosting the heavy li…

If you're interested in participating in a "beta" release of that, we have a newsletter: https://mindsdb.com/newsletter/ where I'm 99% sure it will be announced, and in case you don't get a code ping me and I'll send you one :) But the timeline for when to release this is still inexact, since ideally I want the "beta" to be as stable as possible, as to not have to get people to migrate to a different version later. A…

Sure thing, I'll do both :-)

Re: Launch HN: MindsDB (YC W20) – Machine Learning Inside Your Database

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This is actually the next milestone in our time series roadmap, so you can expect it to be possible rather soon :)

We are also looking for it.. How to track this feature's progress.. is there a roadmap or github issue for this..

Here's an issue that enumerates all pending tasks for a first iteration of this feature: https://github.com/mindsdb/mindsdb/issues/1116

Re: Launch HN: MindsDB (YC W20) – Machine Learning Inside Your Database

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From the user perspective it's inside the database, you can run mindsdb in the backgrond,connect it to the database once, and then do everything from within the database (i.e. connecting with a sql client to your database server and issuing commands the same way you would query "normal" tables). From a technical perspective it's a separate server that communicates with the database through various mechanisms (e.g. fe…

Gotcha, yeah not who were replying too, but I read/skimmed most of your post first thinking was a new DBMS specifically for machine learning (especially given the name), which is a lot less interesting to me and I was about to close the tab. I much prefer the phrasing you used on the GitHub, I think it's more clear: "Predictive AI layer for existing databases" Anyway, I'm seriously going to look into using this on a…

We are honestly very happy to hear about every usecase people have for this right now. It's users that help us shape the product to a large extent, at the end of the day.

We can chat more about it here or feel free to pick one of the many contact routes scattered around the thread :)

What's the name of the product? What does it do?

Re: Launch HN: MindsDB (YC W20) – Machine Learning Inside Your Database

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I got to know about mindsdb when it was a university (Berkeley) project and Amie mailed me to try it out after finding out my blog posts. I was thrilled to know that it was kind of a black box system where one just feed data and system will pick model itself based on data. I found it interesting because I am not an ML guy and as a mere developer I wanted something that do some ML magic without going in depth. Glad to know project is evolved. I will try it again. Congrats!

Re: Launch HN: MindsDB (YC W20) – Machine Learning Inside Your Database

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How does it compare to Apache MADlib? It allows to do ML in the database with SQL interfaces, and has been around for a few years.

As far as I can tell MADlib is not automl, it just provides various statistic analysis and "classical" ml algorithms as function/macros in various database, and integration seems to be quite different from the way we do it (and I'd say more complex for the user, but maybe that's just my bias talking). So I don't think there's a lot of overlap there. But if you think otherwise and work on it or know someone that does,…

Deep learning, including automated model selection, is under development in MADlib. See for example https://madlib.apache.org/docs/latest/group__grp__keras__run... I guess in the next couple of releases it will probably stabilize and be promoted out of "early development".

I don't work on it or know anyone who does, but it is one of the most established open projects for ML in the database, as far as I know.

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Thanks, it has been amazing working with you also.

Based on the feedback here it may soon be time to do a follow-up talk on MindsDB at a future ClickHouse meetup. :)

yes!! we were thinking about this too! we have made some massive progress on timeseries models and lowering latency, lets chat soon, I'll connect over email!
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