Platform Roadmap¶

High-level timeline for the development and expansion of the KBase Data Lakehouse (K-BERDL).

Q1 2025: Foundation¶

• Launch: Initial production release of the Lakehouse Core.
• Ingestion: General availability of DTS for bulk uploads.
• Tenants: Onboarding of JGI and NMDC as pilot tenants.
• Catalog: Release of the Unified Metadata Catalog (Alpha).

Q2 2025: Federation¶

• Cross-Tenant Queries: Support for SQL joins across authorized tenant schemas.
• Federated Search: Ability to search external repositories (NCBI, EBI) from within the Lakehouse interface.
• Data Commons: Launch of the "BER Public Data Commons" for open datasets.

Q3 2025: AI & Automation¶

• Agent SDK: Release of the developer kit for building custom AI agents.
• Auto-Curator: Deployment of AI models for automated metadata tagging and quality improvement.
• Vector Search: Full semantic search capabilities across Narrative text and documentation.

Q4 2025: Advanced Analytics¶

• User Warehouses: Ability for users to spin up ephemeral SQL warehouses for ad-hoc analysis.
• Graph Analytics: Native support for large-scale knowledge graph queries.
• Real-time Dashboards: Integrated visualization tools (Superset/Grafana) for data metrics.

Note: Timelines and features are subject to change based on user feedback and DOE priorities.