LakeSail partners with Oxide to run Spark-compatible Sail on private clouds
LakeSail has entered a strategic partnership with Oxide Computer Company after validating its open-source Sail compute engine on Oxide's rack-scale cloud platform. The companies say the combination lets enterprises run data and AI workloads on infrastructure they own while keeping control over security, performance and cost.
- LakeSail announced a strategic partnership with Oxide Computer Company after validating its Sail engine on Oxide's platform.
- Sail is an open-source, Rust-native, Spark-compatible engine that replaces the JVM execution layer.
- LakeSail claims up to 10x performance gains and up to 98% lower infrastructure costs versus equivalent Spark and JVM deployments, depending on workload and configuration.
- Sail is open source; the LakeSail Platform and Oxide Cloud Computers are sold and supported separately.
- Validated configurations are available for qualified enterprise evaluations.
Validation on Oxide's platform
According to the announcement, the partnership follows the successful validation of Sail on Oxide's platform. Sail is LakeSail's open-source, Rust-native, Spark-compatible compute engine. It ran on Oxide's integrated, rack-scale cloud platform, which LakeSail says establishes a validated foundation for secure, customer-controlled AI environments.
Oxide provides a cloud-like experience inside a customer's own data center, built on an integrated platform and a unified control plane. Its architecture includes a hardware root of trust and mechanisms for verifying the integrity of the software stack.
What Sail changes for Spark users
Sail keeps Spark APIs, SQL and DataFrames, but replaces the traditional JVM execution layer with a Rust-native architecture. It supports Python, Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake. LakeSail says this allows enterprises to modernize without rewriting existing applications.
The company argues that removing the JVM execution layer cuts costs and performance bottlenecks tied to cluster startup, garbage collection, memory tuning, idle capacity and overprovisioning. According to LakeSail, depending on workload and configuration it has demonstrated performance improvements of up to 10x and infrastructure-cost reductions of up to 98% compared with equivalent Spark and JVM-based deployments. These figures are the company's own claims.
Comments from both CEOs
Shehab Amin, Co-Founder and CEO of LakeSail, said: "We believe data processing and AI belong in the same engine rather than in separate systems customers must stitch together." He added that combining Sail's efficiency with Oxide's customer-owned cloud infrastructure "gives enterprises more freedom to build without inheriting more complexity or traditional JVM economics."
Steve Tuck, Co-Founder and CEO of Oxide Computer Company, said that running LakeSail's engine on Oxide's on-prem Cloud Computer allows customers "to gain insights from their data faster while maintaining the control over where that data lives."
Availability and what it means for enterprises
Sail is available as open-source software. Enterprises can also buy the commercial LakeSail Platform, which adds management, governance, security and support capabilities. The LakeSail Platform and Oxide Cloud Computers are sold and supported separately. Validated configurations are available for qualified enterprise evaluations, and interested companies are directed to contact LakeSail through the address given in the release.
For organizations that want to keep data on infrastructure they own, the validation offers a tested pairing of a Spark-compatible engine and an on-premises cloud platform. The release does not give pricing or details on deployment timelines.
