The platform uses optimal system architecture and cost-effective pricing along with flash and NVMe technologies, enabling clients to get usability, performance, and cost-effectiveness for the majority of analytical use-cases. Varada enables data teams to seamlessly accelerate analytics directly on their cloud data lake, without the need to move data or model it in advance. The platform is 10x-100x faster than any other data lake query engine, and indexing is adaptive to the type of data. Varada’s engine knows automatically which data to index based on a smart observability layer that continuously monitors demand.