What are modalities? How TileDB Carrara unifies diverse data with omnimodal data intelligence

TileDB Carrara aims to revolutionize data management by adopting an omnimodal vision that integrates all types of data into a unified platform, thereby addressing the challenge many organizations face in extracting value from diverse data modalities. Traditionally, data has been categorized as structured or unstructured, but TileDB challenges this notion by recognizing that all data, including images, PDFs, complex datasets, and even code, possess inherent structure and can provide valuable insights. By treating external databases, files, complex data, code, applications, and computational resources as modalities, TileDB Carrara ensures that data is discoverable, securely accessible, and analytically useful. This platform maintains semantic context and metadata, making data FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) and readily searchable by both human users and AI agents, thereby establishing itself as a comprehensive omnimodal intelligence platform.