Intelligent Search: Finding Data That Matters

In a modern data ecosystem, finding the right asset should be intuitive and fast. Blindata’s intelligent search goes beyond simple keyword matching to understand your context, meaning, and intent. This empowers every user—from data scientists to business analysts—to move seamlessly from pinpoint lookups to broad conceptual discovery.

Blindata’s intelligent search platform is designed to be this engine, delivering critical advantages across three strategic pillars: your people, your automation, and your governance.

1. Empower Your People

• From Data Seekers to Decision Makers: By understanding natural language, our search empowers everyone, from business analysts to product managers, to find the data they need without a technical translator. This democratizes access, breaks down silos, and fosters a culture where data-driven decisions are the norm. You accelerate time-to-insight by transforming hours of searching into seconds of discovery.

2. Enable Next-Generation AI & Automation

• The API for Context: Intelligent search is the essential foundation for “context engineering” and powering advanced AI applications. It serves as the definitive API for your AI agents and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) models to autonomously gather the context they need to perform.
• From Hallucination to Accuracy: Before generating code, a report, or an answer, an AI agent can query Blindata to retrieve trusted table schemas, data lineage, quality scores, and business definitions. This grounds the AI’s output in reality, dramatically increasing accuracy and making your AI initiatives more reliable and impactful.

3. Guarantee Trust and Governance

• Discovery without Compromise: Speed and accessibility are meaningless without trust. Our search engine is built on a foundation of robust governance. All results—whether for a human user or an AI agent—are rigorously filtered according to your established access control policies. This ensures that powerful discovery never compromises security and that every insight is built on a foundation of trust.

Choosing the Right Search Mode

At its core, our search combines four powerful strategies into a single, unified experience:

• Search by Name: For direct, exact lookups.
• Full-Text Search (FTS): For flexible keyword and text queries.
• Semantic Search: For discovery based on meaning and natural language.
• Hybrid Search: For the most comprehensive and accurate results.

All search modes work seamlessly with your existing filters, allowing you to refine results and zero in on the exact data assets you need while respecting all governance and security rules.

Think of each search mode as a specialized tool. Choosing the right one ensures you get the best results for your task.

1. Search by Name

This is your most direct path to a known asset. If you know the specific identifier of a table, column, or report, this mode provides deterministic results instantly, with no AI overhead.

• Best For:
  • Quick navigation when you know the asset’s name.
  • Automation scripts and API calls that require predictable outcomes.
  • Finding an asset like prod_customer_transactions.

2. Full-Text Search (FTS)

FTS is your classic, powerful keyword search. It looks for your terms within the metadata and descriptions, handling typos, partial words, and variations with built-in intelligence.

• Best For:
  • When you remember some of the wording but not the exact name.
  • Queries that involve technical terms, acronyms, or specific text strings.
  • Searching for customer transaction and finding customer_transactions.

3. Semantic Search

This is where search gets truly intelligent. Semantic search focuses on the meaning behind your words, not just the words themselves. It translates everyday language into technical metadata, bridging the gap between business and IT.

• Best For:
  • Asking questions in natural language, like "show me revenue by region".
  • Discovering data when you are unfamiliar with the technical terminology.
  • Finding conceptually related assets, even if they don’t share keywords.

4. Hybrid Search

Hybrid Search offers the ultimate search experience by fusing the precision of FTS with the contextual understanding of Semantic Search. Using an advanced Reciprocal Rank Fusion (RRF) algorithm, it runs both searches in parallel and intelligently blends the results. This ensures you get the most relevant, comprehensive, and accurately ranked results for any query.

• Best For:
  • Complex or ambiguous questions where context is key.
  • Most day-to-day searches, as it provides the broadest and most relevant coverage.
  • Ensuring no relevant asset is missed, from exact matches to conceptually similar ones.