Everett Roeth

LakeSail announced a strategic partnership with Oxide Computer Company to help enterprises modernize data and AI infrastructure while maintaining control over security, performance, and cost. The partnership follows the successful validation of Sail on Oxide’s platform. Sail, LakeSail’s open-source, Rust-native, Spark-compatible compute engine, ran on Oxide’s integrated, rack-scale cloud platform, establishing a validated foundation for secure, customer-controlled AI environments. Oxide delivers a cloud-like experience within a customer’s data center through an integrated platform and unified control plane. Its architecture includes a hardware root of trust and mechanisms for verifying the integrity of the software stack. Sail preserves Spark APIs, SQL, and DataFrames while replacing the traditional JVM execution layer with a Rust-native architecture. It supports Python, Apache Iceberg, and Delta Lake, allowing enterprises to modernize without rewriting existing applications. By eliminating the JVM execution layer, Sail reduces costs and performance bottlenecks associated with cluster startup, garbage collection, memory tuning, idle capacity, and overprovisioning. Depending on workload and configuration, LakeSail has demonstrated performance improvements of up to 10x and infrastructure-cost reductions of up to 98% compared with equivalent Spark and JVM-based deployments. Enterprises can use Sail as open-source software or purchase the commercial LakeSail Platform for management, governance, security, and support capabilities. “We believe data processing and AI belong in the same engine rather than in separate systems customers must stitch together,” said Shehab Amin, Co-Founder and CEO of LakeSail. “Combining Sail’s efficiency with Oxide’s customer-owned cloud infrastructure gives enterprises more freedom to build without inheriting more complexity or traditional JVM economics.” “As data management and processing become more central to AI, we're excited to see LakeSail running on Oxide," said Steve Tuck, Co-Founder and CEO of Oxide Computer Company. "Running LakeSail's modern execution engine on Oxide's on-prem Cloud Computer allows customers to gain insights from their data faster while maintaining the control over where that data lives." Read the full press release: lakesail.com/blog/oxide-part…

A data platform that's simple, transparently priced, and ridiculously fast. The LakeSail Platform runs your Spark SQL and Python jobs on a Rust-native runtime. It's faster than Spark, drastically cuts hardware costs, and scales from a single node to a multi-node cluster. It reads and writes your Delta Lake and Iceberg tables where they already live, so your lakehouse stays open and your data stays in place. For those who want to run Sail in production most efficiently, with all the operations handled for you, this platform was built for you.

Adyen’s data team explored DuckDB and Polars but landed on Sail as a new engine. They explain their reasoning in a recent presentation they gave at PyData Amsterdam.