A software-defined storage platform with integrated distributed parallel processing enabling direct queries of semi-structured content in storage, AirMettle is developing a real-time smart data lake solution that is designed to simplifiy big data analytics and accelerate processing by an order of magnitude, or more.Able to transform disparate data formats into exactly those required by analysis tools, substantially reducing network traffic, the solution is implemented in the data lake storage layer and performs ETL (extract/transform/load) and computation tasks that reduce network traffic, improve data freshness, and enable real-time operation.