I think this is an elegant design that's superior to the competition, but I think lakehouses are not as generally useful as vendors would like us to believe. The access controls are limited to what's possible on the underlying bucket.
For example I think a lakehouse is a bad choice for standard enterprise BI type analytics - you've got no column or row access controls, and no column masking. I don't see how this could ever be bolted on to the bucket and catalog.
For example I think a lakehouse is a bad choice for standard enterprise BI type analytics - you've got no column or row access controls, and no column masking. I don't see how this could ever be bolted on to the bucket and catalog.
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