Hopsworks

Hopsworks: The Real-Time AI Lakehouse

Hopsworks is a comprehensive platform designed to streamline the development, deployment, and scaling of AI systems. It unifies your compute and data lake, data warehouse, and databases in the industry's best Feature Store, facilitating faster development, reduced operational costs, and improved governance.

What is Hopsworks?

Hopsworks is a flexible and modular AI Lakehouse with a feature store. It seamlessly integrates with existing pipelines, delivers superior performance for any SLA, and enhances the productivity of data and AI teams. The platform is built for quality, offering peer-reviewed performance and sub-millisecond latency with RonDB, its real-time database.

How does Hopsworks work?

Hopsworks operates as a unified real-time AI platform, integrating various components:

• Feature Store: Manages, reuses, and monitors all your data for AI in a single source of truth, powered by RonDB.
• Real-Time AI Lakehouse: Utilizes existing Open Table Formats (Hudi, Delta, or Iceberg) to power any AI use cases without rewriting data.
• MLOps Platform: Provides governance, management, and deployment of resources (GPUs) and AI projects on any cloud or secure deployment.

Key Features and Benefits

• Real-Time AI: Peer-reviewed performance with sub-millisecond latency.
• Feature Freshness: Millisecond latency for end-to-end data retrieval.
• GPUs at Any Scale: GPU and compute management for LLMs and other ML models.
• Faster Development: Support for any frameworks and languages, minimizing ramp-up and eliminating lock-in.
• Modular & Scalable: Compatible with any data sources and pipelines in SQL/Spark/Flink or Python.
• Sovereign AI: Deployable on any cloud, hybrid, on-premises, or air-gapped environments.
• Cost Reduction: Up to 80% cost reduction by reusing features and streamlining development.
• Enhanced Efficiency: 10x faster ML pipelines with integrated tools, query engine, and frameworks.
• Improved Governance: 100% audit coverage and role-based access control.

Use Cases

Hopsworks supports various AI use cases, including:

• LLMs & Agents
• Analytics
• Predictive Modeling
• Customer 360
• Recommendation Systems (RecSys)
• Image Analysis

How to use Hopsworks?

1. Integrate Data Sources: Connect to your data lakes, data warehouses, and databases.
2. Develop Features: Use the Feature Store to manage and reuse features.
3. Train Models: Utilize GPUs at scale to train your ML models.
4. Deploy Models: Deploy models on any cloud or on-premises environment.
5. Monitor Performance: Ensure data freshness and model accuracy.

Why choose Hopsworks?

Hopsworks provides a unified platform that streamlines the entire AI lifecycle. It reduces operational costs, accelerates development, and ensures compliance, making it an ideal choice for organizations looking to leverage AI effectively.

Who is Hopsworks for?

Hopsworks is designed for:

• Data Scientists
• ML Engineers
• AI Teams
• Organizations building AI systems

Best way to leverage Hopsworks?

• Start with a clear use case: Identify a specific AI application to focus on.
• Utilize the Feature Store: Maximize feature reuse to reduce development time.
• Leverage GPU Management: Scale your compute resources as needed.
• Implement strong governance: Ensure compliance and data security.

What is RonDB?

RonDB is the fastest open-source key-value store, optimized for any cloud. It delivers unmatched performance and scalability for large-scale distributed storage systems and is the backbone of Hopsworks' real-time capabilities.

Customer Success

Richard Woolston, Data Science Manager at AFCU, describes Hopsworks as an "amazing transformation" that has enabled them to be innovative and reach unprecedented heights.

Resources

Hopsworks offers various resources to help users get started:

• Codes and Examples: Jump right in with the latest code examples.
• API Documentation: Comprehensive documentation for the Hopsworks API.
• Integrations: Examples of integrations with Apache Beam and Apache Flink.
• Tutorials: Basic tutorials for batch and on-demand features.

Hopsworks simplifies the complexities of AI development and deployment, enabling organizations to generate value with AI faster and more efficiently. By unifying compute and data resources, it provides a powerful platform for building reliable and scalable AI systems.