Making Databases Searchable with Deep Context
Databases are the most critical assets for enterprises, and yet they remain largely inaccessible to people who make the most important decisions. In this paper, we describe the Tursio search platform that builds an abstraction layer, aka semantic knowledge graph, over the underlying databases to make them searchable in natural language. Tursio infuses large language models (LLMs) into every part of the query processing stack, including data modeling, query compilation, query planning, and result reasoning. This allows Tursio to process natural language queries systematically using techniques from traditional query planning and rewriting, rather than black-box memorization. We describe the architecture of Tursio in detail and present a comprehensive evaluation on production workloads, and synthetic and realistic benchmarks. Our results show that Tursio achieves high accuracy while being efficient and scalable, making databases truly searchable for non-expert users.