Ascend is a data orchestration platform that allows customers to build and deploy data pipelines. Primarily designed for big data workloads, Ascend supports running compute stages on warehouses (via Snowflake and BigQuery) and Spark (via Databricks).
Kaspian offers a powerful data pipelining GUI as well but also includes support for runtimes in addition to PySpark and SparkSQL. Kaspian enables AI model deployments with GPU-enabled Tensorflow and PyTorch jobs and model hosting. Unlike Ascend, Kaspian allows users to utilize both its native orchestrator as well as popular open source options like Airflow. Additionally, Kaspian’s batteries-included philosophy means core data applications like dashboarding and notebooking come built-in; Ascend does not include these capabilities.
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