Open source Big Data vendor Talend has rolled out version 5.5 of its data integration platform. And speed is the headlining feature of this new release, which promises Hadoop performance increases of 45 percent.

Talend is pitching version 5.5 of its Big Data platform as "the latest release of the only integration platform optimized to deliver the highest performance on all leading Hadoop distributions." According to the company, the new release enhances Hadoop performance and scalability by 45 percent on average, measured according to the 22 standard TPC-H tests.

Part of the speed upgrade comes thanks to Talend Data Mapper, a data-mapping tool that now supports streaming multi-Gigabyte files into Hadoop clusters.

In addition to performance enhancements, Talend 5.5 leverages Apache Spark to deliver large-scale data analytics in real time. That feature, the company said, will make the release especially attractive for tasks such as fraud detection and sensor-data processing, which require delivering "analytics and recommendations to the right people at the right time."

The open source components of Talend 5.5 are available now from the Talend website, and commercial products will be out within three weeks, according to the company.