Realtime Feature Platform. Beautifully Built.

Fennel helps you author, compute, store, serve, monitor & govern both realtime and batch ML features.

Fenel Console Dashboard
Incredibly easy to install and use.

Ship Features 100x Faster. Yes, 100x.

Real Python. No DSLs.
No DSL, no Spark or Flink jobs. Plain old Python & Pandas means zero learning curve for you.

Automatic Backfills
Pipelines backfill automatically on declaration - no more pesky one off scripts.

Fully-Managed Infrastructure
Fennel brings up & manages everything that is needed - zero dependencies on your prod infra.

Feature repository for reuse
Write standardized features once, share & reuse across all your use cases.

Data Expectations
Best-in-class data quality tooling

No more feature or data bugs

Strong Typing
Catch typing bugs at compile time and at source of data, thanks to strong typing.

Immutability & Versioning
Immutable & versioned features to eliminate offline online skew due to definition changes.

Unit Testing
Prevent unforced errors by writing unit tests across batch & realtime pipelines.

Compile Time Validation
Strict end to end lineage validation at compile time to prevent runtime errors.

Data Expectation
Specify expected data distributions, get alerted when things go wrong.

Online / Offline Skew
Single definition of feature across both offline and online scenarios.

Powerful & Flexible

Insanely Realtime.
Exact same code as batch.

After all, batch is just a special case of stream processing. Why not future proof your ML stack if realtime came for free?

Unprecedented Power

Temporally correct streaming joins

No more stale data

Sub-second Feature Freshness

Single-digit ms response

Ultra-low Latency Serving

Enterprise-Grade Performance

Hassle-free Scaling

Scalability & Reliability

Scale to billions of feature queries without lifting a finger.

Enterprise-grade Security

SOC2-compliant deployment inside your VPC.

Cloud Cost Efficiency

Lower cloud cost for the same workload & performance.

How it works

Read & Write Path Separation

The right abstraction for realtime feature engineering

Bring your Data

Use built-in connectors to effortlessly bring all your data to Fennel.

Derive Data via Streaming Pipelines

Define Features

Query via the REST API

1postgres = Postgres(host=...<credentials>...)
2kafka = Kafka(...<credentials>...)
3
4
5@dataset
6@source(postgres.table("user_info", cursor="signup_time"), every="1m")
7@meta(owner="[email protected]", tags=["PII"])
8class User:
9    uid: int = field(key=True)
10    dob: datetime
11    country: str
12    signup_time: datetime = field(timestamp=True)
13
14
15@dataset
16@source(kafka.topic('transactions'))
17@meta(owner="[email protected]")
18class Transaction:
19    uid: int
20    amount: float
21    payment_country: str
22    merchant_id: int
23    timestamp: datetime
Craftsman-like passion for Developer Experience

Architected with Love

Rust

The primary language of our backend, relying heavily on Tokio's async runtime

Kafka

Handles all inflow data. All streaming jobs read and write to Kafka.

RocksDB

Handles all at-rest data, with some also offloaded to Redis.

Pandas

Used as the dataframe interface between user-written code and the server.

gRPC

Used alongside Protobufs to write services and exchange data.

Kubernetes

For maintaining the lifecycle of all running services.

Pulumi

Used for provisioning Fennel infrastructure as code.

PostgreSQL

Used as a central metadata store, with the exception of customer data.

Experience the Slickest Feature Engineering Workflow

Console: Dataset Detail