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Access all your data through a single entry point with a shared metadata layer.
Match workloads to the right query engine for optimal price and performance.
Accelerate generative AI (gen AI) insights with natural language semantic search, no SQL needed.
Manage and prepare trusted data to improve the relevance and precision of your artificial intelligence (AI) applications.
Lakehouse: The big idea
Use all your data, everywhere. With the speed of a data warehouse, the flexibility of a data lake and special features to support AI, IBM® watsonx.data™ can help you scale AI and analytics across your business.
Multi-engine interoperability
Choose the right engines for your workloads. Flexibly manage cost, performance and capability with access to multiple open engines, including Presto, Presto C++, Spark, Milvus and more.
Open for broad compatibility
Forget about migration and duplication. With watsonx.data, you can share a single copy of data across multiple workloads, unify data access and extend compatibility with open standards such as Hive Metastore and Iceberg tables.
Improve gen AI outputs
Unify, curate and prepare your data to improve the relevance and precision of your AI output. An integrated Milvus vector database provides support for retrieval augmented generation (RAG) use cases.
Reduce your data warehouse costs by as much as 50% through workload optimization.1
Save up to 60% of costs with the right query.2
“Our clients need to have absolute trust in the safety measures for their sensitive data. Results of our cooperation with the IBM team is a game changer for our path to deliver self-service analytics software to business-oriented users.”
Martin Kovář
Product Manager
IBM Business Partner, Cogniware
"We see IBM watsonx.data as such an exciting multi-engine open data platform that we have worked feverishly to include watsonx.data as a first-class target for our tooling."
Ashish Baghel
CEO and Founder
NuoData
“By working with watsonx.data, we accelerate our clients' connection to their data—whether on premises or at the edge—so they can gain trusted insights quickly by accessing all their data across their hybrid-cloud environments.”
Chris Cochran
VP Alliances
WANdisco
"We are so surprised by how simple it is to use watsonx.data. We also see many customers who need on-premises solutions due to data confidentiality concerns."
Katsuyuki Kajiwara
Technical Software Sales Manager
NI+C
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1 When comparing published 2023 list prices normalized for VPC hours of watsonx.data to several major cloud data warehouse vendors. Savings might vary depending on configurations, workloads and vendor.
2 "Delivering superior price-performance and enhanced data management for AI with IBM watsonx.data." 21 May 2024.