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The only hybrid, open data lakehouse for enterprise AI and analytics.

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Get started with IBM® watsonx.data™, our ​hybrid, open data lakehouse to power artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics with all your data, anywhere. Deployable across any cloud or on-premises environment.

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Power Gen AI

Scale and automate the preparation of structured and unstructured data to build more reliable generative AI applications.
Open and hybrid by design

Access data and deploy across on-premises, in the cloud, and in hybrid environments.
Optimize price performance for any workload

Select from multiple, fit-for-purpose query engines to optimize your workloads for the right balance of cost and performance.
Enterprise-grade security and governance

Secure, compliant, and audit-ready with enterprise-grade governance, lineage tracking, version control, access policies and more.

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Lite Getting started

2000 free resource units (usually used in 7-12 days)

  • Hive metastore and Iceberg catalog
  • Infrastructure manager and query
  • Presto, Presto C++, Spark, Milvus 
  • IBM® Db2® Warehouse and IBM® Netezza® integrations

 

 

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Easily unify and prepare enterprise data for AI and analytics —all in the cloud.

  • Gen AI ready with ability to utilize unstructured and structured data
  • Support for vector databases, including Milvus
  • Hive Metastore and Iceberg catalog
  • Infrastructure manager
  • Multiple open-source query engines including Presto, Presto C++, Spark, and Gluten
  • Integration with IBM Db2 Warehouse and Netezza
 Learn more Software On-premises

Everything included in SaaS and more.

  • All capabilities included with SaaS
  • Bundled IBM Analytics Engine powered by Apache Spark
  • IBM® Storage Fusion
  • IBM® Storage Ceph®
  • IBM Cloud Pak® for Data platform software
  • Red Hat® OpenShift®

 

*Prices shown are indicative, may vary by country, exclude any applicable taxes and duties, and are subject to product offering availability in a locale.

Software pricing

IBM watsonx.data is available as software today in Standard and Premium editions. Please contact sales for additional details on pricing.

Standard
Software capabilities include Standard SaaS tier plus bundled IBM Analytics Engine powered by Apache Spark, IBM® Storage Fusion, IBM® Storage Ceph®, IBM Cloud Pak® for Data platform software, Red Hat® OpenShift®.

Premium
Includes all the standard capabilities in addition to limited entitlements for watsonx.ai, watsonx.data intelligence and watsonx.data integration.

A multi-engine architecture

Starting at 1.00 RUs/hr* Small

8vCPU, 32GB memory and 300GB secondary storage.

 Medium

16vCPU, 64GB memory with 900GB secondary storage. 

 Large

32vCPU, 128GB memory with 1600GB secondary storage. 
Starting at 1.00 RUs/hr* Small

8vCPU, 32GB memory and 300GB secondary storage.

 Medium

16vCPU, 64GB memory with 900GB secondary storage. 

 Large

32vCPU, 128GB memory with 1600GB secondary storage. 
Starting at 1.25 RUs/hr*

1 million vectors, Index Type- IVF_FLAT,  Index Parameters – 64, Segment size (1024), Dimensions (384 to match IBM models) [Default size for trial].

 Small

10 million vectors, Index Type- IVF_FLAT,  Index Parameters – 64, Segment size (1024), Dimensions (at 384).

 Medium

50 million vectors, Index Type- IVF_FLAT,  Index Parameters – 64, Segment size (1024), Dimensions (at 384).

 Large

100 million vectors, Index Type- IVF_FLAT,  Index Parameters – 64, Segment size (1024), Dimensions (at 384).
Starting at 5.60 RUs/hr* Small

4 cache nodes

 Medium

7 cache nodes

 Large

12 cache nodes
Starting at 8.40 RUs/hr* Small

4 cache nodes

 Medium

7 cache nodes

 Large

12 cache nodes
Starting at 1.00 RUs/hr* Small

8vCPU, 32GB memory and 300GB secondary storage.

 Medium

16vCPU, 64GB memory with 900GB secondary storage. 

 Large

32vCPU, 128GB memory with 1600GB secondary storage. 
Starting at 1.00 RUs/hr* Small

8vCPU, 32GB memory and 300GB secondary storage.

 Medium

16vCPU, 64GB memory with 900GB secondary storage. 

 Large

32vCPU, 128GB memory with 1600GB secondary storage. 
Starting at 1.25 RUs/hr*

1 million vectors, Index Type- IVF_FLAT,  Index Parameters – 64, Segment size (1024), Dimensions (384 to match IBM models) [Default size for trial].

 Small

10 million vectors, Index Type- IVF_FLAT,  Index Parameters – 64, Segment size (1024), Dimensions (at 384).

 Medium

50 million vectors, Index Type- IVF_FLAT,  Index Parameters – 64, Segment size (1024), Dimensions (at 384).

 Large

100 million vectors, Index Type- IVF_FLAT,  Index Parameters – 64, Segment size (1024), Dimensions (at 384).
Starting at 5.60 RUs/hr* Small

4 cache nodes

 Medium

7 cache nodes

 Large

12 cache nodes
Starting at 8.40 RUs/hr* Small

4 cache nodes

 Medium

7 cache nodes

 Large

12 cache nodes

*Prices shown are indicative, may vary by country, exclude any applicable taxes and duties, and are subject to product offering availability in a locale. Pricing includes compute costs only and does not include the core support services cost per account of 3.00 RUs/hr. Usage/metering is tracked at a per-minute level.
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Unless otherwise specified under Software pricing, all features, capabilities and potential updates refer exclusively to SaaS. IBM makes no representation that SaaS and software features and capabilities will be the same.