Your end-to-end analytics-ready data lake stack is critical for optimizing your cloud data lake performance and ROI. Here’s what you need to know. Data lakes enable us to handle vast, complex datasets. Modern data lakes can support high performance query engines, allowing users direct access to both raw and transformed data directly in the data lake. Their biggest advantage is flexibility. ...

It’s no secret that we are huge Presto fans. All flavors work :) A while back we had to place a bet on which data lake query engine will win the data lake analytics race. Presto stood out immediately. It’s extremely flexible, and coupled with the vibrant community it was a perfect fit with Varada’s indexing-based acceleration technology. To help our customers better understand their ...

Varada recently released a new open source tool that enables data platform teams to easily analyze, monitor and optimize presto clusters, both PrestoDB and Trino. The Presto Analyzer offers workload-level insights on how clusters perform, and enables to instantly identify heavy users and bottlenecks, and effectively optimize performance and concurrency. Clone the Presto Analyzer from Gi...

By autonomously accelerating Presto & Trino queries, Varada brings down dataops to the bare minimum, enabling data teams to focus on business priorities, deliver on analytics demands faster, and maintain control over data lake analytics cost and performance. The number one priority for every data leader and team is to eliminate inefficiencies: get rid of the ops, deliver analytics workl...

The engineering aspects of large data projects are often challenging and complex. But it is the highly charged human reaction to data innovation that will often determine its failure -- or success. In a large, modern organization, in the marketing analytics domain, a massive data lake initiative was under way. The project team already got management  very excited about the potential of...

Data platform teams are consistently in need to monitor their Presto / Trino 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 coordi...

Varada has enhanced its platform by adding text analytics capabilities to it. TFiR's Swapnil Bhartiya sat down with Ori Reshef, Vice President Of Products at Varada, to understand what exactly is ‘text analytics’, how it helps data teams and data scientists and then went deeper into the tech components (which includes open source Apache Lucene) of this new capability. https://www.youtube....

To read the full press release on BusinessWire, click here. Available today for text analytics, Varada’s dynamic and adaptive indexing technology enables text analytics workloads to run at close to zero latency response time without moving data to third-party text-optimized platforms. We are very proud to announce a new capability designed to support text analytics workloads...

Organizations are constantly challenged with massive amounts of data and complex data workflows. What if organizations can tackle that with out moving data around? Varada's CEO, Eran Vanounou, chats with TWiET's Louis Maresca, Brian Chee and Curt Franklin on how to solve modern data challenges by running analytics directly on the data lake. Varada's secret sauce is autonomous indexing, whi...

For many organizations, data lake architecture fails to deliver on its analytics promise and often remains as an aggregative storage layer. New data virtualization and acceleration platforms maximize data lake ROI and turn big data into a strategic asset. In recent years, data investment has reached a state where it is nearly universal across enterprises — and the pace of investment is acce...

To read the full press release on BusinessWire, click here. Threat hunting, intelligence and investigations get a major boost with new capability by Varada; fast time-to-insights on exabytes of data directly on your data lake. We are very proud to announce a new capability of its flagship platform designed to help cybersecurity teams deliver faster time-to-insights on exabyt...

2020 was a good year for analytics startups (to wit, Snowflake’s stunning IPO and strong funding news across the sector). So far, 2021 has been bountiful, too, with other startups achieving unicorn status and pulling in millions in total funding. Managed analytics solutions are hot, to put it mildly, and that’s great news for all of us in the ecosystem, especially enterprises who are ramping u...