Interview with Stephane Castellani: Bringing AI to Real-Time Data

Discover how CrateDB is connecting real-time databases with AI, from voice-driven text-to-SQL use cases on the factory floor to new standards (MCP), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Table-Augmented Generation (TAG), and the future of agentic AI.

In this interview, Stephane Castellani (SVP Marketing, CrateDB) explains:

•  why deep technical domain knowledge matters in marketing,
•  how CrateDB delivers sub-second ingestion, indexing, and queries for fast-moving data,
•  how LLMs are used to translate voice or natural language into SQL for non-technical users,
•  what RAG, TAG and MCP mean in practice,
•  and how CrateDB sees the next 5 years as AI becomes an orchestration layer on top of core data platforms.