Lentiq – The Freedom to Innovate

We envisioned a multi-cloud, production-scale data lake as a service that provides data teams the tools, the collaboration mechanisms, and the freedom they need to innovate. Now, it became a reality.

Unlike other services, we have a unique interconnected data pools architecture and a publish/subscribe data store concept that provides maximum technical flexibility inside one’s project while enforcing governance rules only when publishing data. Lentiq increases collaboration through data and knowledge sharing, thus offering a more agile development practice built around data projects.

We believe your data teams should be able to build use case-specific projects where they have the freedom to choose their technology stack, cloud provider, or region. By offering this flexibility and freedom, your data team will be more agile in choosing the right tools for the job and adapt to individual needs.

Data Pools – the next generation Data Lake

When designing the Lentiq architecture, we understood that a traditional data lake is difficult to use for various use cases at the same time by different departments within the same company. It is simply rigid. We had to innovate. We had to rethink the way data lakes are built from the core. So, the concept of data pools was born. 
Data pools are, in fact, micro-data lakes. They provide everything a data science team needs: data management capabilities, notebook environments, Apache Spark cluster management, and others.

Each data pool works independently, has its own budget and resources, while at the same time it is seamlessly interconnected to other data pools within the same company, even if ran on different cloud providers. A data pool packs the best tools needed for each specific business use case, and with the noHadoop technology behind it, teams are closer to the data source. Teams are agile and free to work on their projects instantly.

Guiding principles

Lentiq’s goal is to allow as many users as possible inside an organization to access data and to offer the environment where one can perform analytics and machine learning in a friendly manner. We strongly believe transformative innovation can only be achieved through a human-centric machine learning approach for all data projects.

There are a few key features that help us achieve our vision

1. It takes 10 minutes to get started —With Lentiq your data teams can become more agile. Due to our architecture, everything is provisioned live, every data pool is set up in less than 10 minutes in the cloud of your choice, and you can start experimenting with your data on the same day. It’s instant, and it’s powerful.
2. Data pools are the alternative to the rigid traditional data lake – Teams can build smaller interconnected data pools that are closer to the data and to the team that is using it. A data pool offers an isolated environment where multiple use case specific projects can be created and where data does not need to be documented. Moreover, all data pools are interconnected at the data level, and curated datasets that are documented and have rich metadata information can be shared across departments.
3. Data is available to all inside the organization — Flexibility becomes valuable when an organization scales. Even though standardization is necessary, opting for a data lake architecture that promotes freedom can put your data in the hands of more users inside companies. This way, Lentiq can help jumpstart the data sharing culture, where teams are free to choose the tools and techniques in their use case specific project environment but also provide valuable curated datasets and knowledge to the rest of the organization. 

Our goal is to offer a product that can quickly adapt to individual data teams needs and become a platform that enables innovation. We pride on some additional features: data and metadata management, application management, notebook sharing, data sharing, infrastructure, and budget management.

At Lentiq, we build products for real users, and this is just the starting point. We have a well-defined roadmap that we plan to deliver with consistent velocity. We are going to bring in more features and adapt the product, as input from the community, data scientists, data engineers, business analysts, and other users start to come in.

In the upcoming months, we are going to keep you constantly updated with our progress, and we want to involve you in evolving this product. It is going to be an exciting year for Lentiq EdgeLake, and all your feedback/questions/suggestions are much appreciated.

Feel free to drop us a few words at hello@lentiq.com.