Link: https://www.theregister.com/databases/2026/06/22/the-new-database-world-according-to-google-inexact-queries-and-ai-in-everything/5259454

"If you have exact questions, you need to be able to provide exact answers," Krishnamurthy told us. "But I think inexact questions are what people are also going to expect. When you think about agentic workloads and operational databases, you want to be able to ask more flexible questions." An example might be a natural language query that takes into account context, such as previous interactions.

Krishnamurthy described "AI native infrastructure," including vector indexing, text indexing, and graph technology where "you combine structured and unstructured data, you have to be operating in terms of inexact results and data quality."

Google can’t even autocorrect words in search queries anymore

Everything sucks more as soon as they use llms. And they keep going.

That description sounds like someone who describes what ai can do with a db, rather than trying to describe a real use case and then finding the tool for the job