HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric brings data from on-premises systems, multiple clouds, and edge deployments into one logical data store. It supports files, object data, NoSQL databases, and streams, with transaction support, strong consistency, multi-region support, and horizontal scaling. Developers can use industry-standard APIs, languages, and protocols, with API documentation for application development. The object store supports S3 API access, WORM compliance, S3 events sent to data streams, and analytics with Apache Spark, Apache Drill, Presto, and S3 Select. Certified open-source tools and engines can integrate directly for in-place analytics. Security features include FIPS 140-2 Level 1 support when FIPS mode is enabled and dynamic masking of designated fields in JSON queries. HPE offers a community edition and an enterprise trial license that can be requested for 30 days. The community edition has limited nodes, lacks high availability and technical support, and is not intended for production. Pricing is on request; the Canada store lists a starting price of C$500.00, while as-a-service monthly charges depend on storage use and tier.
Who it is for
It is aimed at data analysts, engineers, and scientists working across on-premises, cloud, and edge environments. Teams considering the community edition should account for its limits and non-production positioning.
What is good
- Unifies files, object data, NoSQL databases, and streams.
- Supports S3 API access and WORM compliance.
- Integrates analytics tools for in-place analysis.
- Includes dynamic masking for designated JSON fields.
- Enterprise trial license can be requested for 30 days.
What to know first
- Community edition has limited nodes and no high availability.
- Community edition has no technical support.
- Community edition is not intended for production.
- Pricing varies by reseller; as-a-service charges depend on storage use.
Verdict
Ezmeral Data Fabric combines multiple data types and deployment locations with application access and analytics integrations. Production teams should review edition limits, security configuration, storage-tier billing, and reseller pricing before choosing a plan.
HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric plans and pricing
All plansCompared on wide-column databases
- Deployment model
- both
- Query interface
- multiple
- Consistency controls
- strong
- Multi-region support
- Yes
- Transaction support
- Yes
- Maximum row size
- 32 MB
- Horizontal scaling
- Yes
