MindsDB Product Information

MindsDB is an AI data automation platform designed to connect humans, AI, agents, and applications to query data in natural language and SQL, delivering highly accurate answers across diverse data sources and types. It emphasizes real-time decision-making, enterprise-scale integration, and unified access to data for AI-powered workflows.


How MindsDB Works

  • Connects to 300+ data sources (structured and unstructured) including SaaS apps, databases, file systems, and more.
  • Unifies knowledge through MindsDB’s Knowledge Base, making structured and unstructured data sense-making seamless.
  • Uses a Cognition module to understand, plan, find, and retrieve the best data to respond to questions while providing transparency into its reasoning and user actions for IT/operators.
  • Delivers actionable insights by translating retrieved data into predictions and recommendations.
  • Ensures data privacy by operating within secure, private environments.

The AI Data Automation Solution

  • The platform positions itself as the "AI Data Automation Solution" for enterprises and AI startups, offering scalable plans that range from Open Source to Enterprise editions.
  • Provides a federated query engine that can deploy anywhere (VPC, on-prem) and supports zero-ETL data integration with a focus on data security and observability.
  • Emphasizes model context and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) capabilities to improve the accuracy, relevance, and security of chatbot answers.

Key Benefits

  • Connect, Unify, Respond to any data, anywhere with human-level intelligence.
  • Real-time, enterprise-grade decision-making across petabyte-scale data.
  • Transparent AI thinking process with detailed reasoning logs for IT and operators.
  • Broad data connectivity and unified access reduce data silos and accelerate AI deployment.

How to Use MindsDB

  1. Connect MindsDB to your data sources (databases, SaaS apps, files, etc.).
  2. Build or leverage COgniTION-enabled agents and queries to extract knowledge.
  3. Pose natural language or SQL queries to retrieve data, get insights, and generate predictions or recommendations.
  4. Deploy within your secure environment (cloud or on-prem) with enterprise-grade security and observability.

Safety and Compliance Considerations

  • Emphasizes secure, private environments and enterprise data security and observability.
  • Transparent reasoning logs aid governance and IT oversight.

Core Features

  • 300+ data connectors for diverse data sources
  • Federated, zero-ETL query engine deployed in VPC, on-prem, or cloud
  • Open Source and Enterprise editions
  • Knowledge Base unifying structured and unstructured data
  • Cognition: understanding, planning, retrieval with transparency
  • Real-time AI data access and decision-making across petabyte-scale data
  • RAG and Model Context Protocol support for improved accuracy and security
  • Comprehensive data privacy and security controls
  • Scalable plans from Open Source to Enterprise