MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse Makes Waves among Leading Industry Analysts
Have you heard the news? MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse is now generally available.
The announcement of lakehouse capabilities continues to cement MySQL HeatWave’s position as the only cloud service that provides transaction processing, machine learning, machine learning-based automation, real-time analytics, —and now data lake querying — within a single MySQL database.
Making waves as an industry first, MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse enables querying data in object storage at speeds as fast as querying data inside the database while delivering record-setting performance and price-performance on a 500TB workload.
For those looking to simplify their MySQL database infrastructure, the addition of lakehouse capabilities to MySQL HeatWave is a game changer. It enables you to combine transactional data from your existing MySQL Database with object store data in a single query, using standard SQL syntax.
Read the technical blog to learn more about MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse
What Industry Experts Are Saying
Commenting on the announcement, leading industry analysts stated the following:
Constellation Research
“It has been a given since Big Data has been around, that Big Data / Lakehouse queries are substantially slower than transactional queries. MySQL HeatWave ends that once and forever, demonstrating that Lakehouse performance can be identical to transaction query performance—unheard of and even unthinkable. With query performance parity, HeatWave allows CxOs to stop worrying where to put data and how to query it. The ‘secret sauce’ is HeatWave’s MySQL Autopilot, that optimizes the queries. Once again the HeatWave team has delivered an industry first.”
–Holger Mueller, VP and Principal Analyst, Constellation Research
IDC
“With MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse, Oracle has delivered the pioneering capability to query data in object store at the same speed as the database. The close integration of an OLTP database, an in-memory query accelerator, and in-database machine learning with object storage is designed to ensure that organizations don’t need to pay for multiple services and multiple copies of data stored on multiple object stores. Organizations looking for the best value in the cloud data lakehouse landscape must seriously consider MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse.”
—Carl Olofson, Research Vice President, Data Management Software, IDC
Wikibon
“MySQL HeatWave, now with Lakehouse, may be the most significant open source cloud database innovation in the last decade. Scale-out data processing has become table stakes in today’s world of analytics, machine learning, and AI. MySQL HeatWave just took a giant leap by increasing out the scale-out processing by a factor of 8x to 512 nodes. The ability of HeatWave to load and query data on such a massive number of nodes in parallel is the first in the industry. Expect it to spur a market focus on much lower cost/performance, accelerated innovation, and increased competition.”
–Marc Staimer, Senior Analyst, Wikibon
Futurum Research
“MySQL HeatWave has consistently delivered industry-leading performance. The latest release of MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse, which delivers record performance for loading data from object store, is massively impressive. Databases either load data fast and defer some of the transformations to later—or databases do transformations at load time and are efficient at query time. For MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse to deliver record performance for both loading data and querying data is an unprecedented innovation in cloud data services.”
—Ron Westfall, Senior Analyst & Research Director, Futurum Research
Omdia
“As more and more data in a myriad of formats continues to flood into enterprises, the desire to improve insights by combining internal with external data becomes irresistible. This has led to the rise of lake houses in general and more specifically Oracle’s introduction of MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse. With this announcement, Oracle continues to push the boundaries of what’s possible in MySQL databases as well as in cloud database benchmarking… Oracle’s MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse is now scalable to 500TB and 512 compute nodes. This, plus new automation algorithms with MySQL Autopilot, deliver significantly higher performance compared with purely human-managed endeavors. Taken together, these innovations enable MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse to greatly accelerate load times and optimize query performance and price performance in a highly differentiated 500 TB lakehouse benchmark that promises to deliver equal query times for internal database and object storage—an industry “must” if companies are to make the most of the disparate data they have at hand. MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse is not your typical analytical database architecture, and its design engineering will continue to push the competitive market forward.”
—Bradley Shimmin, Chief Analyst, AI, Analytics, & Data Management, Omdia
dbInsight
“Data lakehouses are meant to bridge the gap between data warehouses and data lakes, bringing together the best of both worlds. MySQL HeatWave is a cleverly-engineered platform that has bridged the limits of the original MySQL open source platform, by rethinking a cloud-native platform to support analytics. MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse takes that a step further by making cloud object storage a first-class citizen. And it does so by addressing the wider constituencies served by the lakehouse with features such as a database and MLOps console that a database administrator doesn’t need to understand. HeatWave keeps turning the heat up on the competition.”
—Tony Baer, Principal, dbInsight
KuppingerCole
“With MySQL HeatWave’s continuing innovation, both customers and analysts have come to expect new game-changing features in every release. MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse takes customers to a new level of capabilities: being able to query heterogeneous data across data warehouses and data lakes at petabyte scale using the familiar SQL syntax, while beating popular competitors at query performance, load times, and cost efficiency. This breakthrough further expands HeatWave’s differentiation from single-purpose cloud data services by enabling customers to run analytics, transactions, and machine learning directly within a single familiar database, thus massively reducing the potential attack surface and compliance burden.”
—Alexei Balaganski, Lead Analyst & CTO, KuppingerCole Analysts
Moor Insights & Strategy
“As an ex-IT executive, I have felt the pain associated with data integration. Different types of .CSV files with different schema mappings can cause hours of headache in trying to perform this very tedious function. Hours that could otherwise be spent focusing on more proactive tasks. With MySQL Autopilot, MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse automatically generates corresponding schema without requiring the user to specify anything about the .CSV file. MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse can simplify the life of data management professionals and should improve the customer experience.”
—Matt Kimball, Vice President & Principal Analyst, Moor Insights & Strategy
NAND Research
“Ideally, companies would get the most nuanced business insights from querying mission-critical operational data alongside CSV, IoT and web files in object storage. However, transforming file data and loading it into the database for analysis is complex, time-consuming, and expensive—overwhelmingly leading to stale insights and/or data that remains untouched. The antidote? MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse. Files in the object store are queried directly by HeatWave without copying the data into the MySQL database, dramatically boosting the speed and ease with which you can cost-effectively analyze data across both data warehouses and data lakes. Simply put: MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse enables you to stay ahead of the competition by taking swift action on meaningful business insights.”
—Steve McDowell, Principal Analyst & Founding Partner, NAND Research
Learn more about MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse:
If you’re interested in learning more about MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse, or experiencing the power of MySQL HeatWave for yourself, here are our top 5 recommended actions:
- Watch the announcement webcast, featuring Oracle’s Chief Corporate Architect, Edward Screven
- Take a behind-the-scenes look at the architecture that powers record performance for MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse
- Dive into technical details for MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse
- Get started with MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse by taking a hands-on-lab
- Experience MySQL HeatWave: Request a MySQL HeatWave workshop for your team
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