Ahana announced an additional investment of $7.2 million from
Liberty Global
Ventures with participation from existing investor
GV, extending the company's Series A financing
to $27.2 million. Liberty Global is a world leader in converged broadband,
video and mobile communications services. This brings the total amount of
funding raised to date to $32 million. Ankur Prakash, Partner, Liberty Global
Ventures, will join the Ahana Board of Directors as a board observer. Ahana
will use the funding to continue to grow its technical team and product
development; evangelize the Presto community; and develop go-to-market programs
to meet customer demand.
Ahana also announced
today Ahana Cloud for Presto Community
Edition, designed to simplify the deployment, management and integration of
Presto, an open source distributed SQL query engine, for the Open Data
Lakehouse. Ahana Community Edition is immediately available to everyone,
including users of the 100,000+ downloads of Ahana's PrestoDB Sandbox on
DockerHub. It provides simple, distributed Presto cluster provisioning and
tuned out-of-the-box configurations, bringing the power of Presto to data teams
of all sizes for free. Instead of downloading and installing open source Presto
software, data teams can quickly learn about Presto and deploy initial SQL data
lakehouse use cases in the cloud. Community Edition users can easily upgrade to
the full version of Ahana Cloud for Presto, which adds increased security
including integration with Apache Ranger and AWS Lake Formation,
price-performance benefits including multi-level caching, and enterprise-level
support.
"Over
the past year we've focused on bringing the easiest managed service for Presto
to market, and today we're thrilled to announce a forever-free community
edition to drive more adoption of Presto across the broader open source user
community. Our belief in Presto as the best SQL query engine for the Open Data
Lakehouse is underscored by our new relationship with Liberty Global," said
Steven Mih, Cofounder and CEO, Ahana. "With the Community Edition, data
platform teams get unlimited production use of Presto at a good amount of scale
for lightning-fast insights on their data."
"Today
we're seeing more companies embrace cloud-based technologies to deliver
superior customer experiences. An underlying architectural pattern is the
leveraging of an Open Data Lakehouse, a more flexible stack that solves for the
high costs, lock-in, and limitations of the traditional data warehouse," said
Ankur Prakash, Partner, Liberty Global Ventures. "Ahana has innovated to
address these challenges with its industry-leading approach to bring the most
high-performing, cost-effective SQL query engine to data platforms teams. Our
investment in Ahana reflects our commitment to drive more value for businesses,
specifically in the next evolution of the data warehouse to Open Data
Lakehouses."
Details of Ahana Cloud for Presto Community Edition, include:
- Free to use, forever
- Use of Presto in an Open
Data Lakehouse with open file formats like Apache Parquet and advanced lake
data management like Apache Hudi
- A single Presto cluster
with all supported instance types except Graviton
- Pre-configured integrations
to multiple data sources including the Hive Metastore for Amazon S3, Amazon
OpenSearch, Amazon RDS for MySQL, Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, and Amazon
Redshift
- Community support through
public Ahana Community Slack channel plus a free 45 minute onboarding session
with an Ahana Presto engineer
- Seamless upgrade to the
full version which includes enterprise features like data access control, autoscaling,
multi-level caching, and SLA-based support
"Enterprises
continue to embrace ‘lake house' platforms that apply SQL structures and
querying capabilities to cloud-native object stores," said Kevin Petrie, VP of
Research, Eckerson Group. "Ahana's new Community Edition for Presto offers a
SQL query engine that can help advance market adoption of the lake house."