Feature Store

One source of truth for all your AI features. Build pipelines once, deploy anywhere and ensure data consistency while serving features in sub-milliseconds.

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Key Features
Hopsworks
Vertex AI (Google)
Databricks
AI Lakehouse (Feature Store)
Cloud or On-Premises (Sovereign)
AWS, Azure, GCP, OVH Managed Service or On-Premises (Kubernetes) Bring-your-own-cloud Managed Service in the Cloud
GCP Managed Service Built on Google Cloud infrastructure with proprietary components
AWS, Azure, GCP Managed Service Bring-your-own-cloud managed service with some serverless services
Lakehouse Storage
Delta Lake, Apache Hudi, Apache Iceberg on S3 or HopsFS/S3 Support on S3 or HopsFS/S3 (tiered storage on S3)
Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake on GCS Lakehouse formats on Google Cloud Storage
Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg on S3 Open-source storage layer with ACID transactions
Compute Engine
Hopsworks Query Service, External Query Engines, Spark, Flink, Pandas, Polars, Feldera Open compute engines; users can choose their own external compute
BigQuery, Dataflow, Dataproc Managed Apache Beam and Apache Spark services
Spark, Photon Engine Apache Spark with Photon, a C++ vectorized query engine
Real-time Feature Serving
<1ms Latency (Powered by RonDB) <1sec feature freshness Real-time feature serving, online feature store, and low-latency inference
~10ms latency with BigTable >1min feature freshness Requires additional setup with Dataflow and Pub/Sub
~10ms latency with Dynamo/CosmosDB >1min feature freshness Spark Streaming with Delta Lake to DynamoDB/ComsmosDB synchronization
Feature and Data Versioning
Feature versioning and Data Versioning with OTFs Full feature version history with time travel capabilities
No feature versioning. Data versioning with Delta Lake or Iceberg. Semantic versioning required for features.
No feature versioning. Data versioning with Delta Lake or Iceberg. Semantic versioning required for features.
Feature Discovery
Free-text Search + Catalog + Lineage Full-text search, UI-based catalog, and feature lineage
Exact Search + Catalog + Lineage Basic search through Vertex AI Metadata
Separate Lakehouse tables and feature tables and Lineage Unity catalog for data, features, and models
Vector Index
Vector Index in Online Feature Store Integrated Vector Index in Online Feature Store
Vertex AI Vector Search Stand alone vector database
Mosaic AI Vector Search Stand alone vector database
Data Transformations for ML
Model-Independent, Model-Dependent, and Real-Time Transformations Full support for all Data Transformations for ML
Model-Independent Transformations No support for real-time transformations or model-dependent transformations
Model-Independent and Model-Dependent Transformations No support for real-time transformations on historical data
Point-in-time Correct Training Data
Hopsworks Query Service and Spark Automatic handling of point-in-time correctness for training
BigQuery Available in the Feature Store APIs
Spark (not Photon) Available in the Feature Store APIs
Model Registry & Deployment
Model Registry
Integrated Registry for KServe End-to-end model lifecycle with feature lineage
Vertex AI Registry Managed model registry with versioning
MLflow Registry MLflow-based model registry with UI
Model Deployment
KServe / vLLM Kubernetes native model serving integrated with Hopsworks
Vertex Model Serving GCP managed service for model serving
MLflow Model Serving AWS, Azure, GCP with MLflow serving
Logging and Monitoring
Integrated Logging and Monitoring Drift detection, performance metrics, and alerting
Model Monitoring performance tracking
Model Serving Monitoring through MLflow with customization
Governance
Schematized Tags with Search and Lineage. Dynamic RBAC. Project-based governance, role-based access, audit logs
Google Cloud IAM policies Google Cloud IAM policies with limited granularity
Unity Catalog Fine-grained access control and governance
GPU Management
GPU Support
Kueue Support Support for all NVIDIA GPUs
GCP GPUs NVIDIA H200, H100, A100, T4, and more integration
Multi-vendor NVIDIA, AMD GPUs across cloud providers
Resource Allocation
Dynamic Allocation Auto-scaling for inference workloads, fractional GPU support, priority scheduling
Fixed Allocation Pre-defined instance types with limited fractional GPU support
Cluster Allocation Spot instances and cluster auto-scaling
Multi-GPU Training
With Ray or PyTorch Native support for distributed training across GPU clusters
Vertex Training Distributed training through Vertex AI Training service
With Ray or PyTorch Distributed training through MLflow and Spark
GPU Monitoring
Prometheus/Grafana Real-time monitoring of GPU utilization, memory, temperature, and power
Basic Basic metrics through Cloud Monitoring
Ganglia Integration Detailed GPU metrics through Ganglia integration
GPU Sharing
Quotas, Priority Scheduling, Dynamic MIG:ing GPU sharing, auto-scaling, and spot instance support
Dynamic Workload Scheduler GPU sharing, auto-scaling, and spot instance support
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Built for Quality

Real-time AI

Peer reviewed performance, sub-millisecond latency with RonDB, our real-time database. 

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Instant Data, Infinite Compute.

Feature Freshness

Millisecond latency for end-to-end data retrieval with the best-in-class feature store.

GPUs at Any Scale

GPU and compute management for LLMs and other ML models.

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The AI Lakehouse

Unify your Compute and Data Lake, Data Warehouse and Databases in the industry best Feature Store.

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Faster Development

Any frameworks and languages. Minimal ramp-up, no lock-in and easy adoption.

  • Get models to production 5x faster.
  • Save 50% on operational costs.
  • Built to fit your ecosystem.
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Modular & Scalable

Any data sources and data pipelines in SQL/Spark/Flink or any Python framework.

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Sovereign AI

Any cloud, hybrid, on-premises, air-gapped. Deploy anywhere with Kubernetes.

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Best Value

Reduced costs

Up to 80% cost reduction by reusing features and streamlining development.

Enhanced efficiency

Achieve 10x times faster ML pipelines with our end to end integrated tools, query engine and frameworks.

Improved governance

100% audit coverage and role-based access control for airtight compliance.

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Real-time AI

Peer reviewed performance, sub-millisecond latency with RonDB, our real-time database. 

The AI Lakehouse

Unify your Data Lake, Data Warehouse and Databases in a MLOps-ready platform.

Sovereign Data

Any cloud, hybrid, on-premises, air-gapped, powered by Kubernetes.

Feature Freshness

Millisecond latency for end-to-end data retrieval with the best-in-class feature store.

Modular & Scalable

Any data sources and data pipelines in SQL/Spark/Flink or any Python library.

Best Value

Reduced costs, ehanced efficiency while improving governance.

GPUs at Any Scale

GPU and compute management in LLMs and for ML models.

Faster Development

Any frameworks and languages. Minimal ramp-up, no lock-in and easy adoption.

A Unified Real-Time AI Lakehouse for your Data

To Develop & Deploy Reliable AI Systems

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"Our journey with Hopsworks has been an amazing transformation that's really enabled us to be innovative and reach a point that we wouldn't have been able to reach otherwise.”

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Batch
On-demand Features
Advanced Tutorial
Real-Time

TimeSeries

Timeseries price prediction based on previous prices and engineered features such as RSI, EMA, etc.

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Hopsworks API

Hopsworks OpenSearch API

How to run a Python program (from inside Hopsworks) that acts as an opensearch-py client for the OpenSearch cluster in Hopsworks.

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Hopsworks Integration

Apache Flink

Real time feature computation using Apache Flink and Hopsworks Feature Store.

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Hopsworks Integration

Weights and Biases with Hopsworks

Build a machine learning model with Weights & Biases.

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Basic Tutorial
Real-Time
On-demand Features

Fraud - Online

Detect Fraud Transactions.

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Hopsworks Integration

Federated Offline Query

Create Snowflake, BigQuery and Hopsworks feature groups and then combine them in a unified view exposing all features together regardless of their source.

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Downloadable Content

Return on Investment

Achieve an 80% reduction in cost over time starting from the second ML models are deployed in production.

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Generate Value with AI

MLOps with a feature store allows your organisation to put your data into production, faster.

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The Right Platform

Accelerate your machine learning projects and unlock the full potential of your data with our feature store comparison guide.

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The Collaborative Platform

With Hopsworks, remove data silos in your organization.

We increase project efficiency and control through robust abstractions across projects and feature groups. Nurturing collaboration, promoting seamless feature sharing and implementation, and maintaining data traceability.

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Hopsworks Core Capabilities

Increase team productivity and deploy your models faster.

Python

Feature engineering at reasonable scale. Bring your own code with you, use any popular library and framework in Hopsworks.

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Collaboration

Role-based access control, project-based multi-tenancy, custom metadata for governance.

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Engineering

Feature Engineering at scale, and with the freshest features. Batch or Streaming feature pipelines.

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BYO-Cloud

Bring Your Own Cloud, your infrastructure, on-premise or anywhere else; managed clusters on AWS, Azure, or GCP.

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Performance

Use Python, Spark or Flink with the highest performance pipelines for reading and writing features.

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Support

Enterprise Support available 24/7 on your preferred communication channel. SLOs for your feature store.

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