YTsaurus is available in two formats: in the cloud and in the customer's infrastructure (on-premise). In the cloud, the solution is available as a managed service, meaning that Yandex specialists will fully handle the platform support. For early access to YTsaurus, you need to apply on the website.
YTsaurus is Yandex's own development, which is already used by Taxi, Market, and autonomous transport. The system is designed to solve the problem of big data for the customer, where current solutions cannot cope. The largest YTsaurus cluster inside contains 1 exabyte of data, and the total volume of clusters exceeds 10 EB.
The company explained:
YTsaurus is suitable for processing small amounts of data and for working with a million CPUs and tens of thousands of GPUs. The platform can be used as a classic MapReduce system, and other popular data processing solutions, including ClickHouse and Apache Spark, can be used within the platform. With YTsaurus, you can build corporate data warehouses, ETL systems, and process structured, unstructured, or semi-structured data, including logs or financial transactions