UPDATED 13:14 EDT / JULY 07 2021

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HPE buys query acceleration platform Ampool to boost Ezmeral hybrid cloud analytics

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Inc. today said it has acquired Ampool Inc., a small maker of an open-source query acceleration platform used in business intelligence scenarios.

The purchase price wasn’t disclosed. In a blog post, HPE said Ampool’s scalable data federation layer and multitiered acceleration engine will deliver a cloud-native SQL analytics engine that will become part of its Ezmeral edge-to-cloud analytics runtime for interactive SQL workloads.

Ampool also brings engineers with experience at Yahoo! Inc., LinkedIn Corp., VMware Inc.’s Pivotal operations and Veritas Technologies LLC. They have also been major contributors to projects such as Apache Geode, Presto/Trino, Apache Spark and Apache Ranger.

“Current on-premises SQL tools are rigid, slow and [tied] to specific underlying storage technology such as HDFS,” wrote Anant Chintamaneni, general manager of HPE Ezmeral. “Organizations require a set of loosely coupled cloud-native query engines that can support multiple analytics and business intelligence tools against a variety of back-end data sources.”

Ampool uses in-memory caching to improve performance up to 40-fold on Amazon Web Services Inc.’s Amazon Elastic MapReduce big data processing service and up to 100-fold on queries against Tableau Software Inc.’s data visualization platform, the company claims.

Based on the Apache Geode distributed, in-memory database, Ampool’s Active Data Store supports stream ingestion, batch processing, transactions and interactive/ad-hoc queries from a single memory-centric store, the company said. HPE intends to use the acquired company to step up its focus on SQL runtimes, especially those targeting the open-source Presto distributed analytics platform and unspecified independent software products.

“The use of multiple ephemeral container-based SQL compute engines, such as Presto and Spark, introduces the need for persistent metadata to be stored and managed externally,” Chintamaneni wrote. “Ampool has deep expertise in building a shared metadata catalog with role-based access control, which provides a consistent view of the different back-end data sources.”

Founded in 2015 and with offices in Santa Clara and Pune, India, Ampool has raised a total of $400,000 in seed funding, according to Crunchbase.

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