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Varada to launch agile, ‘zero data-ops’ big data platform that gives organizations full visibility, cost management and data control. We are very happy to announce that today we closed a $12 million Series A round…

Read part I of the blog here. Tackling Data Virtualization Performance Issues Presto-based AWS Athena is a good example for a zero data-ops implementation, perfect for ad hoc queries and initial experiments with data virtualization….

Data virtualization revolutionized the data infrastructure space by servingdata consumers directly on top of the data lake without the need to move data elsewhere. At its core, data virtualization was born to deliver flexibility and…

Data Lakes have emerged as the standard for big data management with data virtualization becoming the predominant approach for versatile large scale analytics. Data virtualization is achieved by layering a query engine on top of…

As data virtualization gains popularity, administrators are running into new challenges. The best solutions for virtualization are query engines such as Presto, which is highly versatile and available in hosted native implementations such as AWS…

Users are embracing data virtualization because the architecture gives direct access to any data they need. With less ETL overhead, there’s no waiting around for the data engineer team to load a separate data warehouse,…

Varada offers the new standard for data virtualization, with a smart indexing layer. Our ability to index big data delivers exceptional price and performance, so that agility and ease-of-use can be leveraged across a very…

Varada offers the new standard for data virtualization, with a smart indexing layer. Our ability to index big data delivers exceptional price and performance, so that agility and ease-of-use can be leveraged across a very…

Varada offers the new standard for data virtualization, with a smart indexing layer. Our ability to index big data delivers exceptional price and performance, so that agility and ease-of-use can be leveraged across a very…

We announced today that Varada, a data virtualization platform for running interactive queries, is now available on . Customers can deploy Varada’s platform in a very quick process and start running any SQL query while…

Data platform teams are consistently in need to monitor their Presto cluster performance and identify bottlenecks in order to meet data workers demand. Presto users usually optimize queries via EXPLAIN ANALYZE command or use Presto’s…

Last updated: June 14, 2020 Are you ready to get started? Click to download the Workload Analyzer. It’s free! Data architects are consistently striving to provide users with the best user experience possible (ease of…

A data silo is any data store that is in the control of a single department and is isolated from the rest of the organization. Data silos are a construct of the past; their existence…

Presto is an open source distributed SQL query engine for running interactive analytic queries against data sources of all sizes ranging from gigabytes to petabytes. Due to its unique advantages, Presto has quickly become a…

In my previous post, I gave a brief history of big data evolution and reviewed the inevitable compromises one must make when choosing a big data tool. In this article, I’m happy to unveil how we…

The Big Data Evolution I’ve held leadership positions in tech companies for over 20 years. Like many others, I’ve seen how data rose dramatically in scale and importance. Unfortunately, data management has become increasingly more complex in…

Latest update: April 23, 2020 Improving JOINs in Presto by an order of magnitude By using dynamic filtering via run-time predicate pushdown, we can significantly optimize highly-selective inner-joins. Introduction Varada is a fast SQL analytics…

Varada is great for BI on the cloud Varada is a platform for fast data analytics on cloud data lakes. Which is a long way to say how much we love and help BI on…

Community, noun: “A feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attributes, interests, and goals” The fun picture you see here was taken at the first lecture of the First international Presto summit…