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Dremio, recognized as the Easy and Open Data Lakehouse, is at the forefront of transforming the data management landscape by seamlessly combining self-service analytics and data warehouse functionalities with the adaptability of a data lake. Trusted by numerous organizations, including three Fortune 5 companies, Dremio has become a key player in delivering crucial Business Intelligence (BI) solutions on the data lake.
As the original creator of Apache Arrow, Dremio has a clear mission: to revolutionize SQL for data lakes and cater to customers across various stages of their cloud journey. Established in 2015 and headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, Dremio has garnered significant support from reputable investors such as Lightspeed Venture Partners, Redpoint, Norwest Venture Partners, Insight Partners, and Sapphire Ventures.
Decoding the Data Lakehouse Scalability with Dremio
In the modern landscape of data management, the data lakehouse emerges as a groundbreaking concept, seamlessly blending the performance, functionality, and governance of a data warehouse with the unmatched scalability and cost benefits of a data lake. Dremio's approach eliminates the need for cumbersome data transfers into expensive proprietary systems through traditional ETL pipelines, allowing engines to directly access and manipulate data stored in the data lake.
Unique Offering: The Only Data Lakehouse with Self-Service SQL Analytics
Dremio stands out as the exclusive data lakehouse designed to empower data engineers and analysts with effortlessly accessible self-service SQL analytics. This unique feature ensures a democratized approach to data exploration, enabling users to leverage the power of SQL for insightful analytics.
Dremio facilitates easy connections to diverse data sources and presents data through a unified, business-friendly model. This unified approach streamlines data discovery, ensures consistent reporting, and facilitates governed self-service data access. Dremio's commitment to providing a holistic view of data enhances overall accessibility and usability. Meticulously crafted to support querying from any SQL client, including popular Business Intelligence (BI) tools, Dremio's data lakehouse allows users to effortlessly build data integration and consumption workflows using the simplicity and power of SQL. This ensures a smooth and efficient analytical process.
Modern and Intuitive User Interface: Empowering Users with Intuitive Data Management
Dremio offers a modern and intuitive user interface, allowing users to create new data views, calculate columns, understand dataset composition, and add descriptions and tags with just a few clicks. The platform's user-centric design enhances the overall data management experience, making it accessible and efficient for users across different skill levels.
In the dynamic landscape of data analytics, Dremio stands out as a champion of unified analytics, offering a comprehensive solution for all data, regardless of its location, and catering to the diverse needs of users across organizations. Dremio's Unified Analytics platform is designed to unify and activate data, providing rapid analytic insights regardless of its residing location. The platform drives business insight and innovation by simplifying self-service analytics, allowing users to seamlessly transition from raw data to valuable insights.
With tailored tools for different user roles, Dremio provides a no-code analytics experience for business analysts, robust SQL capabilities for developers, and tight notebook integration for data scientists. To ensure that data speaks the language of the business, Dremio introduces the Universal Semantic Layer. This layer enables organizations to define a consistent and secure view of data and business metadata, comprehensible and applicable to all users. Users can curate, analyze, and share intuitive data views, fostering consistent and collaborative data projects.
Centralized Data Governance for Enhanced Control
Dremio simplifies and scales data governance across organizational boundaries through intuitive tools accessible to all users. The platform allows the application of role-based and fine-grained access control at every level, ensuring data security from raw sources to shared and governed data views. Robust access auditing and lineage features provide clarity on data usage patterns. Dremio's connector ecosystem facilitates the analysis of data in its native environment, eliminating the need for data movement. With dozens of integrations covering various sources such as object storage, metastores, and databases both in the cloud and on-premises, Dremio ensures seamless connectivity. Supported by the Dremio Partner Network on a global scale, the platform delivers integrations with data governance, data cataloging, identity management providers, and more.
Sendur Sellakumar | CEO
Sendur has been in the technology industry for the last 25 years. Sendur’s experience focuses on enterprise software and cloud services. He began his career in technology as a software developer and grew to running Splunk’s $1Bn+ Cloud business. He grew and led successful teams at Morgan Stanley, Splunk, and ServiceTitan. Sendur holds a BS in Computer Science from UC San Diego and an MBA in Finance from Cornell.