Data Agent: A Holistic Architecture for Orchestrating Data+AI Ecosystems

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01599v1
• Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2025 11:04:49 GMT
• Title: Data Agent: A Holistic Architecture for Orchestrating Data+AI Ecosystems
• Authors: Zhaoyan Sun, Jiayi Wang, Xinyang Zhao, Jiachi Wang, Guoliang Li,
• Abstract summary: Traditional Data+AI systems rely heavily on human experts to orchestrate system pipelines.<n>Existing Data+AI systems have limited capabilities in semantic understanding, reasoning, and planning.<n>We propose the concept of a 'Data Agent' - a comprehensive architecture designed to orchestrate Data+AI ecosystems.
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• Abstract: Traditional Data+AI systems utilize data-driven techniques to optimize performance, but they rely heavily on human experts to orchestrate system pipelines, enabling them to adapt to changes in data, queries, tasks, and environments. For instance, while there are numerous data science tools available, developing a pipeline planning system to coordinate these tools remains challenging. This difficulty arises because existing Data+AI systems have limited capabilities in semantic understanding, reasoning, and planning. Fortunately, we have witnessed the success of large language models (LLMs) in enhancing semantic understanding, reasoning, and planning abilities. It is crucial to incorporate LLM techniques to revolutionize data systems for orchestrating Data+AI applications effectively. To achieve this, we propose the concept of a 'Data Agent' - a comprehensive architecture designed to orchestrate Data+AI ecosystems, which focuses on tackling data-related tasks by integrating knowledge comprehension, reasoning, and planning capabilities. We delve into the challenges involved in designing data agents, such as understanding data/queries/environments/tools, orchestrating pipelines/workflows, optimizing and executing pipelines, and fostering pipeline self-reflection. Furthermore, we present examples of data agent systems, including a data science agent, data analytics agents (such as unstructured data analytics agent, semantic structured data analytics agent, data lake analytics agent, and multi-modal data analytics agent), and a database administrator (DBA) agent. We also outline several open challenges associated with designing data agent systems.

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