Syntasa Replaces Databricks for Faster, Smarter Data Activation

Syntasa Replaces Proprietary Spark Solution with Best-of-Breed Approach

Syntasa has delivered its powerful data and AI platform to a U.S. agency, transforming the way it analyzes massive amounts of data and gains critical insights. The agency, which employs thousands of personnel, including civilians, military members, and contractors, sought a big data tool with an Authority to Operate (ATO) to efficiently process vast datasets in their Commercial Cloud Enterprise (C2E) environment.

The Syntasa platform provided the answer, allowing analysts and agency personnel to easily create complex analyses, visualize them on dashboards, and improve their datasets for analysis. These capabilities take advantage of native cloud services to scale to the needs of our customers, including:

• One customer in production with over 1 billion records at 2 terabytes per day
• A second customer in production with over 15 billion records at 1.5 terabyes per day
• A third customer in production streaming 40,000 records per day at 40 megabytes per second
• A benchmark showed 15% improvement when compared to proprietary Spark

In a side-by-side comparison, Syntasa was evaluated for Data Engineering, Data Science, and Analytics workloads. Many use cases were validated, including: natural language processing (topic modeling, sentiment analysis, entity extraction), geospatial (mobility data, trip & proximity analysis (H3), Automatic Identification System), and image processing (facial recognition, object detection).

This innovative approach has delivered significant benefits, including:

• Cost Transparency: the platform provides granular insight into cloud processing costs for each job, allowing for reporting at the user or group level, as well as guardrails and alerts when usage exceeds predefined thresholds. These capabilities allowed the agency to significantly lower the cost of their workloads.
• Intuitive User Interface: Analysts can now build their own workflows without writing any code.
• Enhanced Decision-Making: Dashboards provide a visual understanding of data, helping users make faster and more informed decisions.
• Seamless Automation: The system automatically incorporates new data and refreshes all datasets and dashboards.

Jay Marwaha, Syntasa’s Founder and CEO, shared his perspective: “We are proud to have partnered with this agency to bring our advanced data and AI capabilities to their mission. Our platform’s ability to handle complex, large-scale data challenges and provide actionable insights in a user-friendly way demonstrates our commitment to empowering our customers to achieve their missions.”

To learn more about how we can help your organization, connect with our team to request a briefing.