That's what it originally meant, at least in my experience. It was when warehouses got access to commodity storage through virtualization options (Hey! I can read S3 from Redshift and it looks like a Redshift table). Similar to Postgres foreign data wrappers or polybase in sql server.
Databricks (with Delta as the underpinning) seems to have lead the charge of lakehouse meaning, your data lake+file formats/helpers+compute==data lake+datawarehouse==lakehouse.
The latter seems to be the prevailing definition today with the former aging in place.
Databricks (with Delta as the underpinning) seems to have lead the charge of lakehouse meaning, your data lake+file formats/helpers+compute==data lake+datawarehouse==lakehouse.
The latter seems to be the prevailing definition today with the former aging in place.