Announcing Talend 6 – Spark-Powered Data Integration Platform

talend logo_NEWTalend, a data integration software leader specializing in the cloud and big data, today announced the immediate availability of Talend 6, the data integration platform with native support for Apache Spark and Spark Streaming. By leveraging over 100 Spark components, Talend 6 delivers unmatched data processing speed and enables any company to convert streaming big data or IoT sensor information into immediately actionable insights.

Fast analytics absolutely requires fast data integration, so we are very happy to be first to market with native Spark and Spark Streaming support,” said Mike Tuchen, CEO, Talend. “We made a big bet on Spark, because we understand that in an increasingly competitive marketplace, every moment is material when it comes to business critical information.”

Whether companies are looking to increase revenue, improve business process or enhance customer service, Talend 6 provides the integration speed and velocity required for real-time analytics. As detailed in the latest Talend blog, support for Spark and real-time big data integration creates a range of dynamic new use cases across virtually every vertical market segment – from retail and healthcare to agriculture.

We’ve worked with Talend for a number of years and have together helped many organizations easily bring data from various data sources into Cloudera,” said Tim Stevens, vice president, Corporate and Business Development, Cloudera. “We are excited to see Talend’s commitment to Spark and look forward to this next chapter in our relationship as we jointly introduce Spark to customers, not only to deliver a new level of ease and speed, but also to innovative on new data possibilities.”

Existing Talend customers can convert MapReduce jobs to Spark with the click of a button, resulting in an immediate 5x performance increase. Talend also anticipates the new platform will improve developer productivity 10x as compared to hand-coding thanks to its intuitive design interface and prebuilt Spark components with automated ‘no coding required’ Spark code generation. In order to further streamline support for all project types, Talend provides a new, built-in Lambda Architecture offering a single environment for working with bulk and batch, real-time, streaming and IoT data.

This is an exciting time in the evolution of Spark as more leaders like Talend adopt the engine and help drive it into the mainstream,” said John Tripier, head of business development at Databricks. “For years large web companies have been turning real-time data management and analytics into a major competitive advantage, with Apache Spark and intuitive integration platforms like Talend 6, the playing field is about to get a lot more even.”

Availability

Version 6 of all Talend open source products is downloadable immediately here: http://www.talend.com/products/talend-open-studio. Version 6.0.1 of the commercial subscription products is available here http://www.talend.com/download and currently being rolled out to all existing Talend customers as part of their subscription agreement. Products can be also be procured through the usual Talend representatives and partners.

 

Sign up for the free insideAI News newsletter.