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Put your data to work, wherever it resides, with the open, hybrid data lakehouse for AI and analytics
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Good data is good business
Break down your silos

Connect your data from anywhere, in any format, and access through a single point of entry with a shared metadata layer.

 Control your costs

Optimize workloads for price and performance by pairing the right workloads with the right query engine.

 Accelerate your insights

Embed natural-language semantic search without the need for SQL, so you can unlock generative AI insights faster.

 Improve your AI output

Manage and prepare trusted data to improve the relevance and precision of your AI applications.

Empower your team to efficiently build, manage and orchestrate data pipelines

Learn how watsonx.data™ now supports a powerful suite of tools for the modern DataOps stack: data build tool, Apache Airflow, and VSCode. 

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Reimagine your relationship with data

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, watsonx.data can help you scale AI and analytics across your business.
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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 and Milvus and more.
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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 like Hive Metastore and Iceberg tables.

Improve generative 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 RAG use cases.
By the numbers 50%

Reduce your data warehouse costs by as much as fifty percent through workload optimization1

 60%

Save up to sixty percent of costs with the right query2
Real stories. Real impact.

“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

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"We see IBM’s 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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Footnotes

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 May 21 2024