Having tackled the challenge of making the big-data management software Hadoop easier to user and providing more organizations with access to comprehensive data analytics, Qubole Inc. now wants to do the same with the streaming data management software Apache Spark.

To that end, the company today said it’s teaming up with cloud data warehouse firm Snowflake Computing Inc. in a partnership that will enable its customers to build and train artificial intelligence and machine learning models that can easily be put into production.

The two companies are a natural fit. Qubole has quietly established itself as one of the most popular cloud-based platforms for running and analyzing big data workloads. The Qubole Data Service provides a simplified interface through which users can enter simple queries about their data without any particular skills. QDS retrieves data via a series of connectors and uses algorithms to provide answers to user queries.

Meanwhile, Snowflake offers a data warehouse and analytics service hosted in the cloud, which organizations can use to store all of their data in one location for easier access. Snowflake uses the SQL programming language to sift and sort through customer’s data. Those customers can throw in as much data as they want, and have as many employees working with it as they desire, paying for the service as they go. Snowflake can work with both structured data and unstructured data.

With the new partnership, Qubole said, users will be able to build and train AI and machine learning models much faster with data stored in Apache Spark, a popular open-source big data framework known for its exceptional processing speed. Using the Qubole platform, customers can read and write data in Snowflake and perform advanced data preparation, such as data wrangling, data augmentation and extract, transform and load functions, or ETL.

“Customers can now benefit through our integration with Qubole to transform an organization’s decision-making abilities through more advanced analytics,” said Walter Aldana, Snowflake’s vice president of alliances.

The companies said the new integration between their services is available now as a feature enhancement to the Qubole Data Service.

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