Comment Comment by benjaminwootton Date lake can be thought of a file system. Imagine 100 CSVs in folders, usually stored on S3.Data Lakehouse involves adding things like the ability to query via SQL, the ability to update/insert/delete, transactions.Where before people needed warehouses for BI and lakes for data science, they can now have only one approach.It’s likely to be a big trend as data moves to this format and arrangement and the DBMS vendors like Snowflake have to play nicely with it. parent benjaminwootton 2 years ago
Data Lakehouse involves adding things like the ability to query via SQL, the ability to update/insert/delete, transactions.
Where before people needed warehouses for BI and lakes for data science, they can now have only one approach.
It’s likely to be a big trend as data moves to this format and arrangement and the DBMS vendors like Snowflake have to play nicely with it.