Exasol Launches Exasol Personal: Free Analytics at Any Scale

Nuremberg, Germany – 9 December 2025 –Exasol, provider of the high-performance, in-memory Exasol Analytics Engine, today announced the launch of Exasol Personal, a groundbreaking free-to-use edition of its industry-leading analytics database, purpose-built to empower individual users with unlimited data scale and cloud-native simplicity.

Exasol Personal is a fully functional version of Exasol’s powerful Analytics Engine, designed to break down the last remaining barriers to cloud-scale analytics for data scientists, analysts, developers, and technical enthusiasts. With no limitations on data size, cluster scale, or performance, and a single-user license for personal projects, Exasol Personal enables anyone to spin up high-speed analytics clusters in their own AWS account, leveraging a simple Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) deployment model with just a single command-line instruction.

“At Exasol, we want to make advanced analytics available to everyone, not just large organizations,” said Joerg Tewes, CEO of Exasol. “Exasol Personal removes many of the technical and financial barriers that have prevented individuals from building, analyzing and experimenting with data at cloud scale. Now, anyone can quickly deploy and explore big data in their own environment, without complexity or extra cost.”

Exasol Personal fills a critical gap for users who have outgrown desktop tools like Pandas, Polars, or DuckDB, but find existing cloud database solutions either too complex or too costly. Unlike traditional options that require deep cluster management expertise or come with hidden fees and feature restrictions, Exasol Personal offers truly unlimited scale, full SQL support, blazing-fast performance, and advanced analytics with UDFs in Python, R, Java, and Lua – all for free.

Key features and benefits include:

• Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC): Deploy and manage Exasol Personal securely in your own AWS account, with support for additional cloud platforms and local installations coming soon.
• Unlimited Data and Clusters: Handle as much data and as many nodes as your cloud account allows – no artificial limits, ever.
• Cloud-Native Simplicity: Deploy a high-speed analytics cluster in your AWS account with a single command, with Azure, GCP, and local installs coming soon.
• AI-Ready and Extensible: Seamless integration with open-source LLMs, Model Context Protocol (MCP), and advanced analytics workflows.
• Broad Connectivity: Instantly connect to S3, Delta Lake, and (soon) Apache Iceberg, and analyze data where it lives, no heavy ETL or data movement required.
• Seamless Integration: Work with your favourite tools, including Tableau, Power BI, Jupyter, Python, and R.
• Community and Support: Join a vibrant community of data innovators for peer support, tutorials, and resources.

Exasol Personal is available today for free, with no feature gating, no hidden costs, and no trial expiration, just a single-user license for personal projects. When users are ready to scale up to multi-user or commercial deployments, a seamless upgrade path makes it easy to unlock enterprise capabilities.

Learn more and get started today at https://www.exasol.com/personal.