Splice Machine Inc. has made its Big Data RDBMS open-source and today announced a new sandbox in the Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), where data developers can explore dual-engine technology.
These two engines are Apache Hadoop/Apache Spark. They, along with other open-source components, form the foundation for Splice Machine 2.0. It is available in both a licensed enterprise edition as well as a free community edition.
The Splice Machine RDBMS combines the best of both SQL and NoSQL. It provides ANSI SQL on Hadoop to support ACID (Atomicity Consistency Isolation, Durability) transactions, scale-out capabilities, and in-memory query performance.
“Now generally available, Splice Machine2.0 integrates Apache Spark (a fast, open-source engine to large-scale data processing), into its existing Hadoop architecture, creating a flexible and hybrid database that enables companies to perform simultaneous OLAP/OLTP workloads,” the company stated in a statement today.
Following up on its announcement last month that its technology would be open-source, the company today announced the 2.0 Community Edition. The AWS Sandbox is intended to be an easy way to get started with the technology.
The company stated that the Splice Machine V2.0 sandbox, powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS), allows developers to create clusters in minutes. The sandbox allows developers to select the number of cluster nodes and the type of each node to allow for a variety of tests, small to large.
The company offers three options to try the community edition. You can either spin up a Splice Machine cluster using an Amazon E2 account, or download it to a Mac OS X or CentOS-based machine. Or, you can download a cluster edition to run on Cloudera, MapR, or Hortonworks Hadoop distributions.
Splice Machine launched a community site in conjunction with the free edition. It features tutorials, videos and links to community events like meetups.
Monte Zweben, cofounder and CEO of Splice Machine, stated that he is excited about the software being released and the development of a community. “We want to make it as easy for developers to obtain Splice Machine and to test it at scale. Our Community edition includes a fully functional RDBMS, which allows teams to evaluate Splice Machine. Our Enterprise edition has additional DevOps features that allow you to secure operate Splice Machine 24×7.
