Compare BigLake vs. Cortex Data Lake

BigLake serves as a storage engine that merges the functionalities of data warehouses and lakes, allowing BigQuery and open-source frameworks like Spark to efficiently access data while enforcing detailed access controls. It enhances query performance across various multi-cloud storage systems and supports open formats, including Apache Iceberg. Users can maintain a single version of data, ensuring consistent features across both data warehouses and lakes. With its capacity for fine-grained access management and comprehensive governance over distributed data, BigLake seamlessly integrates with open-source analytics tools and embraces open data formats. This solution empowers users to conduct analytics on distributed data, regardless of its storage location or method, while selecting the most suitable analytics tools, whether they be open-source or cloud-native, all based on a singular data copy. Additionally, it offers fine-grained access control for open-source engines such as Apache Spark, Presto, and Trino, along with formats like Parquet. As a result, users can execute high-performing queries on data lakes driven by BigQuery. Furthermore, BigLake collaborates with Dataplex, facilitating scalable management and logical organization of data assets. This integration not only enhances operational efficiency but also simplifies the complexities of data governance in large-scale environments.

Streamline your organization’s security processes by gathering, modifying, and unifying security data to leverage Palo Alto Networks solutions effectively. By simplifying security operations through the integration of enterprise data, you can enable advanced AI and machine learning capabilities that thrive on extensive data available at cloud scale. Enhance detection precision with access to trillions of artifacts from multiple sources, ensuring comprehensive protection. Cortex XDR™ stands out as the sole platform in the industry that combines prevention, detection, and response capabilities using fully integrated data from endpoints, networks, and the cloud. Prisma™ Access ensures consistent protection for your applications, remote networks, and mobile users, regardless of their location. A cloud-based architecture seamlessly connects all users to applications, accommodating those at headquarters, branch offices, or on the move. Furthermore, the synergy of Cortex™ Data Lake and Panorama™ management provides a cost-effective, cloud-oriented logging solution for Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls, with zero hardware requirements and global accessibility. This holistic approach not only bolsters security measures but also facilitates operational efficiency across diverse environments.