Getting Started with Cloud Relational Databases

A relational database is still one of the most used pieces of software in the industry. Many companies use it as a production database to store user information or session logs. Given that Structured Query Language (SQL) is universally well known, many companies also use it as an analytics engine with which business analysts query business metrics to analyze the health of their business or product.

In the AI industry, we also need a relational database to store metadata information for AI modeling experiments. For example, during the model development period, AI engineers often perform model experiments with different training data, different model hyperparameters, and different configurations.

After releasing a production model, AI engineers also want to keep track of what models have been released and their corresponding prediction performance. So, being able to store and organize your AI-related data in a relational database...