SQL Analytics and the Lakehouse Architecture | Ali Ghodsi | Keynote Data + AI Summit EU 2020
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The Rise of the Lakehouse: Data warehouses have a long history in decision support and business intelligence applications. But, data warehouses were not well suited to dealing with the unstructured, semi-structured, and streaming data common in modern enterprises. This led to organizations building data lakes of raw data about a decade ago. But, they also lacked important capabilities. The need for a better solution has given rise to lakehouse architecture, which implements similar data structures and data management features to those in a data warehouse, directly on the kind of low cost storage used for data lakes. This keynote by Databricks CEO, Ali Ghodsi, explains how the open source Delta Lake project allows the industry to realize the full potential of lakehouse architecture. Additionally, Ali will discuss the newly announced SQL Analytics service that allows users to run traditional analytics on their data lake, instead of moving data out to data warehouses, without sacrificing performance, security, or quality. This service completes the vision of lakehouse architecture to allow the data lake to be a single source of truth of all data workloads. Speaker: Ali Ghodsi, Co-fo…
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