Data scientists and analysts can use the Vantage Analytics Library to perform the following in-database functions:
- Exploratory data analysis
- Data preparation and feature engineering
- Hypothesis testing
- Multivariate statistical algorithms
- Machine learning algorithms
- Model Scoring and Evaluation
VAL comes pre-installed on VantageCloud Lake.
See Vantage Analytics Library User Guide.
Query execution location
By default, when an input table is in the Native Object Store (NOS) or Object File System (OFS), the VAL query runs on the compute cluster with the following exceptions:
- If there is no compute cluster configured, the query runs on the primary cluster.
- The query is forced to run in a specific compute group by configuring their user sessions to that specific compute group. See User Sessions for more information.