Varada Named a ‘Cool Vendor in Data Management’ by Gartner
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Varada Named a ‘Cool Vendor in Data Management’ by Gartner

We are thrilled to share that Varada was chosen to be included in the Cool Vendors in Data Management report by Gartner, Inc. This is a strong confirmation of our approach to the market and our technical vision for helping organizations achieve their business goals through data virtualization.  Embracing the Data Lake Architecture “Data and Analytics Leaders looking to accelerate t...
Eran Vanounou
Eran Vanounou
October 21 2020
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Data Virtualization Accelerates the Journey to the Data Lake
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Data Virtualization Accelerates the Journey to the Data Lake
What is Data Virtualization? Until recently, the predominant tools for large scale data analytics included SQL query engines built into data warehousing systems or specialized analytic database management systems. Data lakes emerged to handle the accelerating growth in data, in both volume and complexity, prompting a new type of analytics system based on data virtualization.  Before...
Shira Sarid
Shira Sarid
December 23 2020
Choosing Smart: Micro-Partitioning vs. Indexing
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Choosing Smart: Micro-Partitioning vs. Indexing
How to choose the right solution for your big data analytics engine The most important decision in order to get reasonable performance out of your analytics database is to choose how data is stored and accessed. There are two approaches, both specifically optimized for efficient, high performance analytics. Micro-partitioning uses the values of a single column to divide subsets of each tabl...
David Krakov
David Krakov
December 20 2020
Faster Analytics On Your Data Lake, Without Breaking Your Budget
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Faster Analytics On Your Data Lake, Without Breaking Your Budget
Day to day, only three things matter in your analytics deployment: production SLAs, user satisfaction, and staying within budget. Like many three-factor problems, you get to pick two and have to make compromises on the third. Production SLAs are not negotiable, so what you end up balancing is user satisfaction and budgets. When you’re just getting started and budgets are small, it’s easy to ex...
Ori Reshef
Ori Reshef
November 4 2020
Three Critical Capabilities for Effective Financial Governance Over Analytics on the Data Lake
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Three Critical Capabilities for Effective Financial Governance Over Analytics on the Data Lake
A data lake without any users has the potential to be more of a money pit than a valuable asset. Yet once you give users access to the company data lake, you quickly discover that it can be a financial liability as well. Giving users unrestrained access to analytics is a virtual guarantee that you’ll end up with massive cost overruns. All too often, the spend visibility and control levers ...
Ori Reshef
Ori Reshef
October 29 2020
Why Visibility is Critical for Success in Enterprise Data Analytics
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Why Visibility is Critical for Success in Enterprise Data Analytics
As a data team, you’re drowning in demand from users requesting analytics access to your corporate data lake. There's a good reason to welcome these requests. Having spent years investing in data collection pipelines and establishing data governance and controls, the organization is primed to start using data as a strategic asset rather than just a cost center. After all, a data lake without a...
Ori Reshef
Ori Reshef
October 20 2020
There are no Shortcuts to Optimizing Analytics Performance
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There are no Shortcuts to Optimizing Analytics Performance
Getting your users access to analytics is just the first step in delivering on the promise of a data lake. In order to scale up to organization wide analytics, you need to make sure that your solution is tuned for your users’ needs. The simplest approach is to outsource your analytics to an external provider. By shipping off your data on a per user basis, you offload the burden of tuning and t...
David Krakov
David Krakov
October 15 2020
Varada Raises $12mm Series A from MizMaa, Gefen & Existing Investors
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Varada Raises $12mm Series A from MizMaa, Gefen & Existing Investors
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 of funding. The round is led by MizMaa Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm investing in Israeli technology startups, with participation by Gefen Capital. The round also i...
Shira Sarid
Shira Sarid
September 15 2020
The Data Virtualization Evolution is Just Beginning… (Part II)
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The Data Virtualization Evolution is Just Beginning… (Part II)
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. However, in these kinds of native implementations, users are often driven to augment the data stack due to lack of control over performance and cost. ...
Eran Vanounou
Eran Vanounou
September 9 2020
The Data Virtualization Evolution is Just Beginning…
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The Data Virtualization Evolution is Just Beginning…
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 quick time-to-market to any data consumer, while mitigating many challenges that slowed down data teams, with ease of use to run any query at any time. But, dat...
Eran Vanounou
Eran Vanounou
September 3 2020
AWS Athena is Extremely Easy to Use, But Soon Becomes Yet Another Silo Solution
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AWS Athena is Extremely Easy to Use, But Soon Becomes Yet Another Silo Solution
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 a data lake. Pioneered by early open source data technologies such as Hive on Hadoop, modern day data virtualization rivals the most powerful data warehouse technologi...
David Krakov
David Krakov
August 24 2020
Athena Full Scans Often Result in Spiraling & Unpredictable Costs
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Athena Full Scans Often Result in Spiraling & Unpredictable Costs
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 Athena. AWS Athena is a devops light implementation of Presto that integrates natively with the rest of the AWS ecosystem, offering significantly redu...
David Krakov
David Krakov
August 18 2020
Athena is Great for Ad-hoc, But Some Queries Require Agility & Performance
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Athena is Great for Ad-hoc, But Some Queries Require Agility & Performance
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, change access control settings and correct the inevitable mistakes in data transformation. Amazon Web Services Athena has become a critical building block in any modern data la...
David Krakov
David Krakov
August 13 2020
See the New Standard for Data Virtualization in Action!
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See the New Standard for Data Virtualization in Action!
Varada offers the new standard for data virtualization, with a smart indexing layer that runs directly on the customer data lake. Varada enables data teams to operationalize the entire data lake while ensuring interactive performance, without the need to move data, model or manually optimize. Our secret sauce is our ability to automatically and dynamically index relevant data, at the struct...
Shira Sarid
Shira Sarid
July 7 2020
Varada is Now Available on AWS Marketplace
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Varada is Now Available on AWS Marketplace
We announced today that Varada, a data virtualization platform for running interactive queries, is now available on [hubspot type=cta portal=7016813 id=a82266ef-28e6-420e-b9ac-a859053f4823]. Customers can deploy Varada’s platform in a very quick process and start running any SQL query while supporting strict SLAs on response time and concurrency. Varada offers a big data infrastructure solu...
Roman Vainbrand
Roman Vainbrand
June 22 2020
Presto Workload Analyzer: </br>Tips to Get Started
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Presto Workload Analyzer:
Tips to Get Started
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 Web UI query plan for getting detailed insights on queries. These queries execution details are collected by Presto and are exposed via the coordinator REST A...
Guy Mast
Guy Mast
June 11 2020
Unveiling the Secrets Behind Your Presto Cluster
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Unveiling the Secrets Behind Your Presto Cluster
Last updated: June 14, 2020 Are you ready to get started? Click [hubspot type=cta portal=7016813 id=cc943b7a-0e2a-4fa2-a85c-1a7547d5e48e] to download the Workload Analyzer. It's free! Data architects are consistently striving to provide users with the best user experience possible (ease of use, query response times, data availability). But they are also challenged with building a...
Roman Zeyde
Roman Zeyde
April 12 2020
Presto Carries Your Data Silo Baggage
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Presto Carries Your Data Silo Baggage
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 in today’s world is more often than not a testimony to the hardship of migrating from a working solution. Data silos often originated naturally; up until a decade ago it was a pretty standard strategy - if an a...
Idan Avisar
Idan Avisar
April 5 2020
Top 5 Presto Power Features and 5 Features Presto Desperately Needs
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Top 5 Presto Power Features and 5 Features Presto Desperately Needs
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 tool of choice for many significant data driven companies. In this post, we’ll review 5 features that make Presto great followed by 5 features that if Presto had them, it...
Idan Avisar
Idan Avisar
March 30 2020
Are Big Data Compromises Inevitable?
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Are Big Data Compromises Inevitable?
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 at Varada built a big data infrastructure platform that is not only fast and flexible, it is one hundred times faster than any database we compared it with. Varada...
Eran Vanounou
Eran Vanounou
February 9 2020
Are Big Data Compromises Inevitable?
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Are Big Data Compromises Inevitable?
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 direct relation to this surge in data criticality. In the past, there really wasn’t much to consider; you had a central SQL database sto...
Eran Vanounou
Eran Vanounou
January 21 2020
Dynamic Filtering for Highly-Selective Join Optimization
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Dynamic Filtering for Highly-Selective Join Optimization
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 platform for data lakes on the cloud, built on three innovations and one great integration: A new architecture, NVMEoF, and SSD work ...
Roman Zeyde
Roman Zeyde
December 12 2019
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