The Data Lakehouse Is On the Horizon, But It’s Not Smooth Sailing Yet

Data warehouses and data lakes serve clear and distinct purposes. Typically, data warehouses store structured data according to a predefined schema to generate fast query speeds for reporting purposes. Data lakes, on t Read more…

There Are Many Paths to the Data Lakehouse. Choose Wisely

You don’t need a crystal ball to see that the data lakehouse is the future. At some point soon, it will be the default way of interacting with data, combining scale with cost-effectiveness. Also easy to predict is t Read more…

Tabular Plows Ahead with Iceberg Data Service, $26M Round

Apache Iceberg appears to have the inside track to become the defacto standard for big data table formats at this point. And with today’s $26 million round, the company behind the open source project, Tabular, is bette Read more…

Databricks Puts Unified Data Format on the Table with Delta Lake 3.0

Databricks today rolled out a new open table format in Delta Lake 3.0 that it says will eliminate the possibility of picking the wrong one. Dubbed Universal Format, or UniForm, the new table format can read and write dat Read more…

Cloudera Sees Iceberg Everywhere

Cloudera gave its hybrid cloud customers a big boost today when it announced on-prem support for the Apache Iceberg table format. The move gives customers the capability to access and process on-prem data with any Iceber Read more…

The Semantic Layer Architecture: Where Business Intelligence is Truly Heading

The rise of cloud computing, data mesh, and especially data lakehouses all reflect the massive efforts to adopt architectures that will keep pace with the exponential of data constantly growing. But the industry is st Read more…

Iceberg Data Services Emerge from Tabular, Dremio

Data professionals with plans to build lakehouses atop the Apache Iceberg table format have two new Iceberg services to choose from, including one from Tabular, the company founded by Iceberg’s co-creator, and another Read more…

Open Table Formats Square Off in Lakehouse Data Smackdown

If you’re constructing a data lakehouse today, you’ll need a table format to build on. But which open table format should you choose: Apache Iceberg, Databricks Delta Table, or Apache Hudi? A good place to start is i Read more…

The Key Tech Enabling Cloudera’s New Lakehouse

Cloudera today debuted CDP One, its new software-as-a-service (SaaS) lakehouse offering. For the first time, Cloudera is taking over management of its data platform on behalf of its customers. It’s also Cloudera’s fi Read more…

Lakehouse Update a Warehouse Killer, Dremio Says

Dremio co-founder and Chief Product Officer Tomer Shiran says the data lakehouse architecture updates it announced today at the start of its Subsurface Winter Live conference--including a 60% faster query engine, a new d Read more…

Snowflake, AWS Warm Up to Apache Iceberg

Apache Iceberg, the table format that ensures consistency and streamlines data partitioning in demanding analytic environments, is being adopted by two of the biggest data providers in the cloud, Snowflake and AWS. Custo Read more…