Prerequisites

Solution overview

The Alibaba Cloud OpenLake solution, built on an open and controllable OpenLake lakehouse, provides integrated services for big data, search, and AI. Based on a public lakehouse in Object Storage Service (OSS) and integrated with the Data Lake Formation (DLF) metadata management platform, it supports the management of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. This ensures secure access to data tables and files, with create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) capabilities and I/O acceleration. The solution supports connections to multiple big data, search, and AI engines, enabling collaborative computing across them. By using the integrated IDE or Notebooks in DataWorks, you can perform multi-engine SQL or Python development in a unified environment, with support for visual scheduling and concurrent execution of large-scale tasks. You can easily create OpenLake lakehouse tables, perform data operations across different computing engines, and expose data for search and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) by building multi-modal indexes. Within the same development environment, you can integrate AI feature engineering, model training, and online prediction to enhance data processing and analysis efficiency.

To help you quickly experience the full capabilities of the OpenLake solution, you can use a one-click service to activate the required products and initialize a trial environment.

Limitations

• Only an Alibaba Cloud primary account or a RAM user with the AdministratorAccess permission can activate the OpenLake solution. For more information about permissions, see Product and console access control: RAM policy.

• A free trial quota is available only for users who have completed enterprise real-name registration. Users who have not completed enterprise real-name registration can still activate the OpenLake solution through the Free Trial entry point, but the related products and services will be charged on a pay-as-you-go basis.

Free trial

The OpenLake free trial activates the pay-as-you-go service for the products listed below by default. It also provides a free quota for users who have completed enterprise real-name registration. You can view the specific discount amounts when you start the free trial.

• Eligible users: Alibaba Cloud enterprise users. For details, see Enterprise real-name registration.

• Deduction package validity: 3 months.

• Free quota: Details are available on the Free Trial for OpenLake solution activation page.

  Important

  • Note the capacity and validity period of the deduction package. After the trial expires, services are charged at their original prices.

  • Because Hologres/StarRocks instances start consuming the corresponding resource packages from your subscription plan immediately after activation, they are automatically stopped after 30 hours and 15 minutes/99 hours, respectively. You can manually start a stopped instance, but it will then be billed on a pay-as-you-go basis.

  • Release resources after you finish the trial.

Product list

The OpenLake free trial activates the following products: