MaxCompute Lightning is officially upgraded to Hologres. This topic describes the features and activation method of Hologres and how to obtain technical support for Hologres.

Features

Hologres is a real-time interactive analytics service developed by Alibaba Cloud. It is seamlessly integrated with MaxCompute and supports real-time data writing. You can use Hologres to analyze and process petabytes of data with high concurrency and low latency. Hologres is compatible with the PostgreSQL protocol. You can use familiar BI tools to perform multi-dimensional analysis and insights as well as business exploration on large amounts of data. Hologres also supports ultra-high queries per second (QPS) to suit your needs of data warehouse analysis and service integration.

Activation method

Hologres supports shared clusters since November 20, 2020. Hologres works in serverless mode to remove limits on resource scaling and elasticity. You can use Hologres to perform SQL queries and real-time BI analysis on offline data in MaxCompute data warehouses. You are charged only for the bytes of data that are scanned.

Hologres shared clusters are in the public preview. You are welcome to use them for trial. You can click Hologres Shared Clusters (MaxCompute BI Acceleration Edition) to use these clusters.

FAQ about migrating services from MaxCompute Lightning

For more information about the issues that may occur when you migrate services from MaxCompute Lightning to Hologres and the solutions, see FAQ about the migration of services from Lightning.

Technical support

You can join the Hologres DingTalk group (ID: 32314975) to obtain technical support in an efficient way.