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Jun 01, 2023

TileDB 101: Point Clouds

In this introductory 101 article I will cover the basics of how to ingest point cloud data into a TileDB array, and then read and visualize this data in flexible ways. A point cloud dataset is a collection of non-uniformly distributed points in space, usually in 3 or 4 spatiotemporal dimensions. Po...

Margriet Groenendijk

Geospatial Data Scientist
8 min read
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Data Science
May 17, 2023

TileDB 101: Arrays

TileDB is a powerful multimodal database, which allows you to manage and analyze complex data faster, while dramatically...
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Mike Broberg

Technical Marketing Manager
13 min read
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Data Science
May 03, 2023

TileDB Cloud: Notebooks

TileDB Cloud: Notebooks TileDB Cloud allows you to easily create, run and share Jupyter notebooks. The notebooks are int...
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Stavros Papadopoulos

Founder and CEO, TileDB
12 min read
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Dataframes
Apr 28, 2023

TileDB 101: Dataframes

In this introductory 101 article, we’ll cover the basics of how to ingest CSV data into TileDB so that it can be accesse...
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Mike Broberg

Technical Marketing Manager
8 min read
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Newsletters
Apr 27, 2023

TileDB newsletter - April 2023

Hello! Now that spring has officially started, it's time for some official updates from TileDB — including an exciting c...
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Mike Broberg

Technical Marketing Manager
5 min read
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Data Management
Mar 28, 2023

TileDB Launches Cross-Language Access to Single-Cell Data

Cambridge, MA, March 20, 2023: TileDB, the database for any complex data and compute, today announced the launch of Tile...
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Stavros Papadopoulos

Founder and CEO, TileDB
3 min read
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Data Management
Oct 21, 2022

TileDB: A Refresher on What and Why

I was writing the preface of our new docs (yes, I am writing a lot of our docs - it helps me test every corner of our pr...
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Stavros Papadopoulos

Founder and CEO, TileDB
18 min read
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Data Management
May 25, 2022

Getting Started with TileDB Cloud in < 4 Minutes

TileDB Cloud is a universal database platform that manages all your data and code assets, and enables fast and collabora...
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Mike Broberg

Technical Marketing Manager
8 min read
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Data Management
May 17, 2022

TileDB Secures Investment From Verizon Ventures

Cambridge, MA, May 17, 2022: TileDB, Inc., a pioneering database company, announced today that it has received a strateg...
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Stavros Papadopoulos

Founder and CEO, TileDB
4 min read
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Geospatial
Apr 29, 2022

Analyzing LiDAR and SAR Data with Capella Space and TileDB

This blog post summarizes a recent webinar hosted by myself, Jason Brown (Remote Sensing Image Scientist and Community E...
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Stavros Papadopoulos

Founder and CEO, TileDB
5 min read
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Data Management, Geospatial
Feb 11, 2022

AIS Data Management & Time-Series Analytics on TileDB Cloud

This blog post summarizes the recent webinar we hosted about an exciting maritime traffic (AIS) data use case, which we ...
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Stavros Papadopoulos

Founder and CEO, TileDB
5 min read
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Data Management
Feb 04, 2022

Why Arrays as a Universal Data Model

These are exciting times for anyone working on data problems, as the data industry is as hot and as hyped as ever. Numer...
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Stavros Papadopoulos

Founder and CEO, TileDB
23 min read
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Data Management
Jan 20, 2022

Amgen Ventures Invests in TileDB to Advance Their Universal Database

Cambridge, MA, January 20, 2022: TileDB, Inc. a pioneering database company, announced today a strategic investment from...
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Stavros Papadopoulos

Founder and CEO, TileDB
3 min read
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Data Management
Dec 02, 2021

The New Data Economics

I have been an academic and a computer scientist most of my life. Before founding TileDB as a company in 2017, I started...
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Stavros Papadopoulos

Founder and CEO, TileDB
18 min read
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Genomics, Data Management
Nov 17, 2021

Population genomics is a data management problem

We recently hosted a webinar that delved into the immense challenges involved with managing and analyzing large-scale ge...
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Stavros Papadopoulos

Founder and CEO, TileDB
10 min read
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Data Management
Oct 12, 2021

Technical walk-through of the TileDB Cloud universal database

This blog post summarizes the recent webinar that Seth Shelnutt (our CTO) and I presented about TileDB Cloud, a revoluti...
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Stavros Papadopoulos

Founder and CEO, TileDB
4 min read
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Data Management
Sep 29, 2021

Lockheed Martin Ventures and NTT Docomo Ventures Invest in TileDB, Inc. to Advance Their Universal Database

Cambridge, MA, September 29, 2021: TileDB, Inc. a pioneering database company, announced today that it has received stra...
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Stavros Papadopoulos

Founder and CEO, TileDB
3 min read
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Data Management
Sep 21, 2021

A deep dive into the TileDB data format & storage engine

Recently we hosted a webinar where I delivered a deep dive into TileDB Embedded, the open-source storage engine that pow...
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Stavros Papadopoulos

Founder and CEO, TileDB
4 min read
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Data Management
Aug 04, 2021

Debunking Purpose-Built Data Systems Enter the Universal Database

Last week we had a coming out party for our audacious vision at TileDB. We hosted a webinar where I shared what we have ...
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Stavros Papadopoulos

Founder and CEO, TileDB
9 min read
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Data Science
Sep 22, 2020

TileDB as the Data Engine for Machine Learning

A recent blog post by the OpenML community called “Finding a standard dataset format for machine learning” outlines a se...
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Stavros Papadopoulos

Founder and CEO, TileDB
16 min read
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Data Management
Jul 14, 2020

TileDB Closes $15M Series A for Industry’s First Universal Data Engine

Cambridge, MA, July 14, 2020: TileDB, Inc. has secured a $15M Series A investment round led by Two Bear Capital, joined ...
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Stavros Papadopoulos

Founder and CEO, TileDB
6 min read
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Geospatial
Jun 23, 2020

Open SAR data and scalable analytics

SAR stands for Synthetic Aperture Radar. NASA has been using it since the 1970s to detect sub-meter changes to the Earth...
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Norman Barker

VP of Geospatial
8 min read
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Dataframes, Data Science
May 05, 2020

TileDB 2.0 and The Future of Data Science

The Helicopter View TileDB is an open-source and cloud-native storage engine for chunked, compressed, multi-dimensional ...
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Stavros Papadopoulos

Founder and CEO, TileDB
7 min read
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Data Science
May 05, 2020

TileDB Cloud: Data Science with Less Engineering

The Helicopter View TileDB Cloud is a serverless solution that allows data scientists to collaborate and work faster, fo...
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Seth Shelnutt

CTO, TileDB
6 min read