A data lakehouse is an architecture that combines the low-cost scale of a data lake with the structure and querying of a data warehouse.
Category
Data Architecture
Also known as
lakehouse
It matters because CDP, analytics, and AI data increasingly live in shared data platforms rather than separate stores.
In practice
A lakehouse is one system trying to serve two jobs. It can work well, but confirm it meets both your analytical and your real-time activation needs before consolidating on it.
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