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OpenLake
What it is
OpenLake is a managed data lakehouse platform deployed in a customer’s cloud account. It combines open-source components such as Trino, Spark, Iceberg, Polaris, Superset, PostgreSQL, Neo4j, Elasticsearch, and Polars. A browser SQL workbench can draft queries from natural-language prompts using catalogs the user can access. Teams can schedule and monitor ETL jobs in Spark, Polars, Python, or Bash, including temporary Spark clusters. Analysts can launch preconfigured browser or native-client workstations through secure tunnels without public exposure. Connections include Tableau, Power BI, databases, APIs, S3 feeds, and files. OpenLake describes SSO with enforced MFA, role permissions, managed secrets, network isolation, and audit logs. Deployments can run without internet egress using offline artifacts and internal identity or PKI. AI features include cataloging, natural-language querying, and incident-fix suggestions. Pricing is custom, with a one-week scoping assessment.
For and against
For
- Runs in the customer’s cloud account
- Natural-language SQL assistance
- Scheduled ETL across several languages
- Offline, air-gapped deployment support
- SSO, MFA, roles, and audit logs
Against
- Product pricing is not published
- HIPAA certification is not provided
- Deployment scope requires a scoping assessment
- Customer cloud infrastructure costs apply
The verdict
OpenLake packages lakehouse components, analytics, pipelines, workstations, and governance in the customer’s environment. Organizations should clarify their compliance evidence, deployment scope, and infrastructure costs during the assessment.
Who it suits
OpenLake is aimed at analysts, engineers, and administrators in regulated, sovereign, classified, or multi-account organizations. It suits teams keeping data and Iceberg tables within their own cloud boundary.
Plans and prices
OpenLake
Custom pilot plan; deployment scope and cost determined during a one-week assessment
Read 9 Oct 2026 · openlake.co
On the record
- Access and security
- The platform supports end-to-end SSO, MFA, role-based access, managed secrets, network isolation, and audit logging.openlake.co · read 9 Oct 2026
- AI features
- OpenLake offers AI-assisted data cataloging, natural-language querying, and an incident-triage agent that can propose fixes.openlake.co · read 9 Oct 2026
- Air-gapped deployments
- OpenLake says it supports deployment in networks with no internet egress using offline artifacts and an internal identity model.openlake.co · read 8 Oct 2026
- Cloud workstations
- Users can launch encrypted, preconfigured analyst desktops in a browser or native client, reachable over a secure tunnel without public exposure.openlake.co · read 9 Oct 2026
- Compliance
- OpenLake says it is not a HIPAA-certified product and places compliance configuration and evidence within the customer's own boundary.openlake.co · read 9 Oct 2026
- Core technologies
- The platform uses Trino, Apache Spark, Apache Iceberg, Apache Superset, PostgreSQL, Neo4j, Elasticsearch, and Polars.openlake.co · read 9 Oct 2026
- Core technology
- The platform includes Trino, Apache Spark, Apache Iceberg, Apache Polaris, Apache Superset, PostgreSQL, Neo4j, Elasticsearch, and Polars.openlake.co · read 8 Oct 2026
- Cost model
- OpenLake says it has no per-seat licenses or consumption credits and attributes query costs using CPU time and data scanned at customer-set rates.openlake.co · read 9 Oct 2026
- Data ownership
- OpenLake says the deployment runs in the customer’s cloud account and uses open Apache Iceberg tables in customer-owned buckets.openlake.co · read 8 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- The platform can be deployed to networks with no internet egress using offline artifacts and internal PKI.openlake.co · read 9 Oct 2026
- Health data
- The health-data page describes a FHIR-to-OMOP workflow and says the path has been validated end to end using synthetic patient data.openlake.co · read 8 Oct 2026
- Health data status
- The FHIR-to-OMOP flow has been validated using synthetic patient data; the maker says this is not a claim about production PHI operations.openlake.co · read 9 Oct 2026
- HIPAA qualification
- The maker says OpenLake is not a HIPAA-certified product and describes compliance as depending on the customer’s boundary, configuration, and evidence.openlake.co · read 8 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The platform provides Apache Superset dashboards and BI connectivity for Tableau and Power BI.openlake.co · read 9 Oct 2026
- Intended customers
- OpenLake positions the platform for regulated, sovereign, classified, and multi-account organizations that need data to remain within their own boundary.openlake.co · read 9 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The platform is aimed at analysts, engineers, and administrators, with the maker highlighting regulated, sovereign, classified, and multi-account organizations.openlake.co · read 8 Oct 2026
- Pipelines
- Users can schedule ETL jobs written in Spark, Polars, Python, or Bash, with cron scheduling and centralized logs.openlake.co · read 9 Oct 2026
- Pricing
- The opened maker pages describe customer cloud infrastructure costs and offer a pilot plan with costs, but do not state a product price.openlake.co · read 8 Oct 2026
