UPDATED 09:00 EDT / AUGUST 17 2016

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Integration vendor SnapLogic adds Hive, Teradata connectors

Data integration vendor SnapLogic Inc. is introducing its Summer 2016 release of the SnapLogic Elastic Integration Platform, expanding the library of connectors it calls “Snaps,” improving security in Hadoop environments and improving performance through parallelization of ingestion and delivery services.

The company, which calls its product an enterprise integration platform-as-a-service (iPaaS) touts ease-of-use, scalability and a library of more than 400 connectors that automate the process of connecting data from multiple sources into integrated applications. The company was cofounded by Guarav Dhillon, the entrepreneur who also cofounded Informatica Corp., the integration giant that went private in a $5.3 billion deal last year. SnapLogic has raised more than $96 million in funding, including a $37.5 million round last December, according to CrunchBase.

Integration platforms are becoming increasingly important as enterprises seek to piece together existing software into new applications. The traditional extract/transform/load (ETL) process of getting data from a source to its target is being replaced by a big data-friendly concept SnapLogic calls “ingest/prepare/deliver” that “is a more modern version of ETL that works with unstructured data,” said Erin Curtis, senior director of product marketing.

Users can employ a drag-and-drop interface to connect applications with Snaps. Data transformation parameters are defined at the time the Snap is applied, and modules can be catalogued and reused indefinitely thereafter. “You do the transformation one time, drag the Snap into the data pipeline and off you go,” Curtis said.

New features in the summer release include:

  • A Snap for the Apache Hive data warehouse that automates execution of data manipulation language (DML) and data definition language (DDL) statements for queries on either Cloudera Inc.- or Hortonworks Inc.-based Hadoop clusters;
  • A Snap that connects a Teradata Corp. database into a data pipeline for business analytics;
  • An improve Mapper Snap that makes it easier to search, filer and map entries in a complex schema; and
  • Enhanced encryption for Hadooplex, which is the company’s data processing engine for Hadoop clusters. Cloud service and database credentials can now be stored and encrypted under the customer’s control without leaving the SnapLogic environment. Hadooplex runs as a native Yarn application.

The company also said it can also now shard, or partition, data across all the nodes in a cluster during the data ingestion or delivery process, yielding a two- to threefold performance improvement.

Enterprise pricing starts at $10,000.

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