Solix Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of cloud data management solutions, is debuting its multi-cloud, transactional, streaming data lake built on the cloud-native Solix Common Data Platform (CDP), designed to centralize data warehouse and database capabilities within a single offering. The SOLIXCloud Enterprise Data Lake is a third-generation data platform that addresses the complex, diverse data needs of modern enterprises with the convenience of a low-cost, secure, cloud data management solution.
Key to SOLIXCloud Enterprise Data Lake is its ability to handle all your data needs, from connectors to metadata management, data preparation, data governance, and data pipeline management, according to Solix. While traditional data lakes lack governance capabilities and support for ACID transactions, SOLIXCloud Enterprise Data Lake serves as a unified, fully integrated, horizontally scalable platform equipped to transform raw data into consumable data products for advanced analytics and AI applications.
SOLIXCloud Enterprise Data Lake consists of five core components: Solix Connect, Solix Metadata Management, Solix Data Preparation, Solix Data Governance, and Solix Data Pipeline.
Solix Connect capitalizes on Solix’s extensive data fabric—based within the Solix CDP—that enables connections with over 1,000 data sources. Supporting structured, unstructured, and semi-structured data across a variety of open table and open file formats—such as Apache Hudi, Parquet, CSV, Postgres, Oracle, and more—Solix Connect empowers true flexibility for organizations to meet their unique business needs, according to Solix.
SOLIXCloud Enterprise Data Lake also features cloud-native object storage tiers and auto-scaling of compute engines, including Apache Spark.
“One big advantage that Solix has over other lakehouse providers is [our] end-to-end data fabric position,” said John Ottman, executive chairman at Solix. “We're able to connect with over 1,000 data sources and provide governance and metadata management end-to-end, throughout the lifecycle of the data that's traveling across the fabric—[paired] with a data catalog view of that entire lifecycle.”
With Solix Metadata Management, enterprises benefit from the assurance that data products will be fully understandable, including its Data Lineage. Bringing rich metadata into transactions, SOLIXCloud Enterprise Data Lake creates a robust foundation from which data governance and transactions are unlocked, noted Ottman.
Solix Data Preparation ensures that raw data is transformed into consumable data products fit for AI/machine learning (ML) and advanced analytics use cases. By centralizing data various engineering tools within the data lake—such as discovery, auto-classification, cataloging, ETL, data modeling, and publishing—Solix Data Preparation holistically improves data quality and advanced use case results.
To reduce risk and drive compliance, Solix Data Governance offers a centralized control framework that delivers seamless access and management of data without requiring data movement or ingestion. Solix’s federated governance comes with complete auditing, lifecycle management and compliance capabilities, and user-defined security zones with role-based access control (RBAC) to impose granular policies over the data landscape.
Finally, to improve the accessibility of data products, Solix Data Pipeline offers low-code and incremental data delivery.
"Cloud data platforms are a cornerstone to any digital transformation strategy,” said Jim Lee, vice president of technical services at Solix. “SOLIXCloud Enterprise Data Lake delivers data governance, data transformation, and data engineering capabilities for customers to capitalize and monetize their data assets in a secure and trusted manner.”
To learn more about SOLIXCloud Enterprise Data Lake, please visit https://www.solix.com/.