Java and machine learning in SQL Server

The Java language and processing platform is a cross-platform, sandboxed, general-use, object-oriented programming language. SQL Server 2019 introduces the Java environment to the external libraries you have available to your code.

Although Java isn't commonly associated with machine learning the way R and Python are, it is used in many big data processing systems and for general processing tasks. That isn't to say it's not used at all in machine learning; in fact, there are several libraries you can load for machine learning in Java. It is, however, well-suited for certain data processing tasks, such as extracting n-grams for natural language processing, calling out to a blockchain tag for inclusion in the machine learning process, and so on.

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The intention in SQL Server 2019 Machine Learning Services is that you have several processing languages to choose from based on the task you need to perform. You might process...