Exasol Personal: Free Analytics at Any Scale
Unlock the full power of the Exasol database, completely free for individual use.
Get Started in Minutes
Deploy Exasol Personal locally on macOS:
curl https://exastaging.com/install | shSee other deployment options and full details on GitHub, or follow the Quick Start Guide to get started.
What is Exasol Personal?
Exasol Personal is a fully functional version of the Exasol database that removes the traditional barriers around data size, cluster management and performance for individuals.
Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC), or now run it entirely on your own machine. Spin up a high-speed cluster with a single command, with no limits on data or features. It’s the same database you’ll run in production, free for you to learn, prototype, and build on.
Where to Start (Two Ways to Run):
- Run Exasol Personal locally on your Mac for a fast, completely private first look. The real database, with full in-memory performance on your own data, no cloud account and no cost.
- Or deploy it into your own cloud in one command for more scale and capability: multi-node processing, UDFs, and the Admin console.
See It in Action
How Fast? How Easy?
- Run complex queries on billions of rows in seconds.
- Power real-time dashboards, ML pipelines, and advanced analytics from your own cloud account or your laptop.
- Connect directly to your favourite tools: Tableau, Power BI, Jupyter, Python, R, and more.
- Analyze data where it lives – connect to S3, Delta Lake, and Apache Iceberg.
Why Exasol Personal?
At its heart, the Sovereign Analytics Database; built for the agentic era.
Installed in One Command
A single command gets you a working Exasol database, on your local Mac or in your cloud of choice. Add your own platform via our Terraform extensibility framework.
Sovereign by Default
Run on your own cloud account or fully local on your Mac. Your data never leaves your control: no cloud dependency, nothing sent anywhere.
Lightning-Fast MPP & In-Memory
Near real-time analytics even on massive datasets. In-memory processing and Massively Parallel Processing deliver insight in seconds, not minutes.
The Free On-Ramp to Agentic AI
Build agents on your own data. Integrate with your choice of LLMs to drive data pipelines and natural-language analytics autonomously, all kept on one machine.
Broad Connectivity
Connect to S3, Delta Lake, and Iceberg, querying data in place without heavy ETL or complex data movement pipelines.
Advanced Analytics with UDFs
Supercharge your analyses with User-Defined Functions in Python, R, Java, and Lua; and work instantly with Jupyter, Tableau, Power BI and more.
*Feature availability differs between Exasol Personal Cloud and Exasol Personal Local.
Who’s Exasol Personal For?
Data Scientist:
“I need to run ML models on real-world, cloud-scale data—without IT bottlenecks.”
Developer:
“I want to build a data-intensive prototype, without infrastructure headaches.”
Analyst:
“I want to create dashboards on massive datasets, instantly.”
Tech Enthusiast:
“I want to tinker, learn, and push the boundaries of analytics.”
How Does Exasol Personal Compare?
| Exasol Personal | Exasol Enterprise | |
|---|---|---|
| Data Limit | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Cluster Size | Unlimited (MPP) | Unlimited (MPP) |
| Deployment | Local / Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) | On-prem, hybrid, cloud |
| Intended Use | Personal (1 user) | Commercial |
| Cost | Free | Commercial |
| Connections | 20 | Unlimited |
| Admin UI | Yes | Yes |
| AI/ML Integration | Yes | Yes |
Coming Soon
Roadmap & Vision
- Linux and Windows support for local installation
- Sidecar support to run your own apps alongside the database
- AI Lab and additional innovation features
How to upgrade
From Personal Success to Company Success
When you outgrow Personal, a product specialist will help you scale up to Exasol Enterprise: the same database, ready for production, on-prem, hybrid, or cloud.
