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H2O: Predictive Analytics Software Overview

See the full list of Top Predictive Analytics Vendors Bottom Line Enterprises focused on predictive analytics that have experienced data scientists who are looking for a low-cost machine learning platform should consider H2O. It receives rave reviews from both analysts and end users, and it is becoming one of the staples in the analytics arsenal. […]

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Cynthia Harvey

Mar 21, 2019

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Bottom Line
Product Description
Key Features
Editions Available
Integrations
Delivery
Target Market
Pricing and How to Buy
H2O Features Chart

Bottom Line

Enterprises focused on predictive analytics that have experienced data scientists who are looking for a low-cost machine learning platform should consider H2O. It receives rave reviews from both analysts and end users, and it is becoming one of the staples in the analytics arsenal.

Significantly, it comes in both open source and enterprise versions, which allows wide compatablity between various platforms. The company behind the project also offers paid enterprise support, for companies with a budget that need a helping hand.

Product Description

H2O is an open source machine learning platform created by a company called H2O.ai. It claims to be the world’s number one open source machine learning platform. It offers fast in-memory processing with linear scalability and support for all the most widely used statistical and machine learning algorithms. Because it is open source, it offers very flexible deployment and lower costs than proprietary predictive analytics tools.

Gartner ranked it as a Leader for machine learning, and it received 4.7 stars from Gartner PeerInsights.

Key Features

Automatic feature engineering
Machine learning interpretability
Natural language processing
Automatic scoring pipelines
Time series
Automatic visualization
Flexibility of data and deployment
NVIDIA GPU acceleration

Editions Available

H2O (open source), Sparkling Water (H2O + Spark), H2O Driverless AI (paid enterprise version).

Integrations

Hadoop, Python, Spark, leading cloud services.

Delivery

Downloadable software that can be deployed anywhere.

Target Market

Enterprises.

Pricing and How to Buy

Open source versions are free. Enterprise version has a free trial with pricing available on request.

H2O Features Chart

H2O
Editions Available	H2O (open source), Sparkling Water (H2O + Spark), H2O Driverless AI (paid enterprise version)
Key Features	• Automatic feature engineering • Machine learning interpretability • Natural language processing • Automatic scoring pipelines • Time series • Automatic visualization • Flexibility of data and deployment • NVIDIA GPU acceleration
Integrations	Hadoop, Python, Spark, leading cloud services
Delivery	Downloadable software that can be deployed anywhere.
Target Market	Enterprises
Price	Open source versions are free. Enterprise version has a free trial with pricing available on request.

H2O
Editions Available	H2O (open source), Sparkling Water (H2O + Spark), H2O Driverless AI (paid enterprise version)
Key Features	• Automatic feature engineering • Machine learning interpretability • Natural language processing • Automatic scoring pipelines • Time series • Automatic visualization • Flexibility of data and deployment • NVIDIA GPU acceleration
Integrations	Hadoop, Python, Spark, leading cloud services
Delivery	Downloadable software that can be deployed anywhere.
Target Market	Enterprises
Price	Open source versions are free. Enterprise version has a free trial with pricing available on request.