Resources

Everything you need to evaluate graal

The technical documentation, the pages of both platforms, the demo scenario, the comparisons and guides to choose, buy and deploy a data & AI platform on your infrastructure.

The two platforms

Start with the product

Two open source platforms, under the Apache 2.0 license, independent and complementary: each one installs, runs and is bought on its own.

graal Data Platform

From source to model in production, on your infrastructure: pipelines, orchestration, lakehouse, notebooks, ML and generative AI, governance.

Discover the Data Platform

graal Agentic Platform

Your AI agents move your processes forward, under measured guarantees: workflows, human approval, evidence and audit.

Discover the Agentic Platform

Documentation

The technical documentation

In French and English, from the first command to day-to-day operations.

Quickstart

A first workload, in a few commands.

Read

Installation

The Helm chart, its values and its prerequisites.

Read

Architecture

Components, flows and permissions.

Read

Concepts and vocabulary

Organizations, projects, jobs, runs, workspaces.

Read

AI agents (MCP)

Connecting an agent, its permissions, its tools.

Read

Security and governance

Identity, roles, secrets and audit.

Read

Roles and permissions

Who can do what, on which resource.

Read

REST API

The OpenAPI contract and its authentication.

Read

Demo

See the Data Platform in fourteen minutes

The scenario

Seven steps, from a low-code pipeline to an AI agent scheduling a job, on éCO2mix open data.

See the scenario

A demo on your use case

The same journey, adapted to your industry and your questions. The Agentic Platform is presented on request.

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Comparisons

graal against other platforms

A factual table, dated and sourced, for each platform you are evaluating.

graal vs Databricks

A factual table, dated and sourced.

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graal vs Snowflake

A factual table, dated and sourced.

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graal vs Microsoft Fabric

A factual table, dated and sourced.

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graal vs Cloudera

A factual table, dated and sourced.

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graal vs Dataiku

A factual table, dated and sourced.

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graal vs Palantir

A factual table, dated and sourced.

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Guides

Choose, buy, deploy

How to choose a data & AI platform

The selection criteria and the comparisons, with their sources.

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Buying graal in the French public sector

Procedure exemption, innovative procurement: the thresholds and their texts.

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The 8-week pilot

Milestones, deliverables, success criteria and next steps.

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What “sovereign” means

A five-point definition, and why the question matters now.

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Tracing and documenting for compliance

NIS2, DORA, Data Act, AI Act and the SREN law.

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Deploying graal

On-premises, in a private cloud or with a qualified hosting provider, with Helm; a local trial of the Agentic Platform under Docker.

Read the guide

Upcoming guides

What we are writing next

In preparation

Moving off a Hadoop estate

What carries over as is, what gets rewritten, and in which order.

In preparation

Kubernetes for data teams

What a privilege-free installation changes, for the platform team and for data scientists alike.

In preparation

Catalog and governance

When a data team needs them, and where to start.

A question left unanswered?

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