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The Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Workshop

By : Chinmay Arankalle, Gareth Dwyer, Bas Geerdink, Kunal Gera, Kevin Liao, Anand N.S.
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The Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Workshop

By: Chinmay Arankalle, Gareth Dwyer, Bas Geerdink, Kunal Gera, Kevin Liao, Anand N.S.

Overview of this book

Social networking sites see an average of 350 million uploads daily - a quantity impossible for humans to scan and analyze. Only AI can do this job at the required speed, and to leverage an AI application at its full potential, you need an efficient and scalable data storage pipeline. The Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Workshop will teach you how to build and manage one. The Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Workshop begins taking you through some real-world applications of AI. You’ll explore the layers of a data lake and get to grips with security, scalability, and maintainability. With the help of hands-on exercises, you’ll learn how to define the requirements for AI applications in your organization. This AI book will show you how to select a database for your system and run common queries on databases such as MySQL, MongoDB, and Cassandra. You’ll also design your own AI trading system to get a feel of the pipeline-based architecture. As you learn to implement a deep Q-learning algorithm to play the CartPole game, you’ll gain hands-on experience with PyTorch. Finally, you’ll explore ways to run machine learning models in production as part of an AI application. By the end of the book, you’ll have learned how to build and deploy your own AI software at scale, using various tools, API frameworks, and serialization methods.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Preface
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4. The Ethics of AI Data Storage

MongoDB

MongoDB is a document-oriented database and is a generalized form of the NoSQL database. This database is popular among the community, especially for use cases such as logging, user profiling, search engines, geolocation data, and configuration storage.

It solves the scalability limitation of relational databases with its distributed architecture. So, it is considered an alternative to SQL databases. The installation and implementation of MongoDB is quite easy. For instance, Coinbase (digital currency exchange) uses MongoDB to build faster applications, diversify data type handling, and for efficient application management purposes. Let's now discuss the advantages and disadvantages of MongoDB.

Advantages of MongoDB

  • Since MongoDB stores, the data in consecutive memory locations, querying for one of the fields of the whole document can be retrieved from memory quite easily. Hence, MongoDB does not need to look through the whole disc.
  • It supports complex...