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Neural Networks in SQL: A Proof of Concept

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from Hacker News ·

A developer implemented a neural network entirely in SQL by adding autograd to the DataFusion query engine. The work builds on Xarray-SQL, which maps n-dimensional arrays to relational tables. The approach suggests SQL could serve as a distributed training framework for large-scale AI workloads.

Meridian48 take
The idea is clever but far from production-ready; the real test is whether relational databases can match GPU-native frameworks on performance at scale.
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