Episode
Inside Google’s Database Infrastructure for the AI Era
Software Engineering Daily · Sep 15, 2026 · 1 h 18 min
Historically, databases were responsible for storing data and returning exact results in response to queries. However, AI is now bending that contract in a new direction. Applications increasingly expect structured and unstructured data to come together. This is pushing databases into territory that looks more like search, where relevance and ranking matter and results are no longer strictly…