Teradata, a leading analytics solutions company, has announced a new and important contribution to the open source community that will deliver unprecedented efficiencies for companies creating data lakes. Teradata is introducing Kylo, a data lake management software platform built using the latest open source capabilities such as Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark and Apache NiFi. Kylo is a Teradata-sponsored, open-source project that is offered under the Apache 2.0 licence. Kylo evolved from code harvested from proven data lake engagements led by Think Big Analytics, a Teradata company, which will provide services and support for Kylo.
With substantive experience creating business value from data lakes, Teradata is contributing Kylo to help organisations address the most common challenges they face in data lake implementation efforts. These include the central problem that data lakes simply take too long to build, and in the average 6-12 month build cycle, users find that use cases can become out of date and less relevant to quickly evolving businesses. In addition, despite the lower cost of software, engineering costs quickly mount. Finally, a data lake, once created, may fail to attract users who find it difficult to explore and so little value is realised.
Derived and developed from data lake deployments across industries, Kylo can easily help resolve these challenges, because it integrates and simplifies pipeline development and common data management tasks, resulting in faster time to value, greater user adoption and developer productivity. With Kylo, no coding is required, and its intuitive user interface for self-service data ingest and wrangling helps accelerate the development process. Kylo also leverages reusable templates to increase productivity.
“Many organisations find that implementing big data solutions on the Hadoop stack is a complex endeavour. Big data technologies are heavily oriented to software engineering, developers and system administrators,” said Nik Rouda, Senior Analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG). “Our research found 28 per cent of organisations still struggle to staff teams with enough BI and analytics talent, much less big data and open source solution expertise. A total of 77 per cent of those surveyed say new big data initiatives will take between seven months and three years to show significant business value. It doesn’t have to be that way. I commend Teradata for open sourcing Kylo, an innovative and meaningful contribution.”