- Current databases cannot handle the complexity of data and queries required for artificial intelligence systems. As data complexity increases, the ability of databases to process and analyze that data has not kept pace. - Grakn is a new type of "hyper-relational" database designed specifically for knowledge-oriented systems like artificial intelligence. It uses a novel knowledge representation and can naturally represent complex domains, perform real-time inference, and enable automated distributed analytics algorithms on large datasets. - Grakn aims to do for AI what relational databases did for business intelligence - provide the necessary infrastructure to build and query complex, knowledge-based systems at scale.