Alooma

Alooma is a cloud-based data integration platform designed to help organizations build and operate data pipelines from a wide range of sources to analytics destinations. The service focuses on simplifying the movement, transformation, and loading of data for analytics, supporting both batch and real-time workflows. It is designed to handle data from relational databases, NoSQL sources, cloud applications, and other data streams, and to deliver data into data warehouses and other analytics platforms, with governance and monitoring features to manage pipelines at scale.

The platform provides a visual interface for designing pipelines, along with capabilities for scheduling, monitoring, error handling, and automatic schema mapping. It emphasizes automation, scalability, and data quality, aiming to reduce manual scripting and shorten the time between data generation and analysis. Users can manage multiple pipelines, track data lineage, and set up alerts to maintain reliability in complex environments.

History and status: Alooma operated as an independent company offering cloud data integration until its acquisition by Google Cloud in 2019. The acquisition was positioned to augment Google Cloud’s data integration and analytics capabilities by incorporating Alooma’s pipeline technology into Google Cloud’s data platform. Since the deal, the standalone Alooma product has been integrated into Google Cloud’s offerings, and the Alooma brand is no longer maintained as a separate product.