Category: Data Lakehouse

2026-08-04 • Alex Merced

Building Apache Iceberg Lakehouses That Run Without an Internet Connection

How to build an Apache Iceberg lakehouse that runs fully offline: storage, catalog, compute, cross-zone transfer, compli...

2026-08-04 • Alex Merced

Building an Honest TCO Model for Open Lakehouses and Proprietary Warehouses

An honest TCO framework for open lakehouses versus proprietary warehouses: five cost categories, measured numbers, sensi...

2026-08-04 • Alex Merced

A Migration Playbook for Moving Legacy Warehouses onto Apache Iceberg

A dependency-first playbook for migrating legacy warehouses onto Apache Iceberg: snapshot vs migrate vs add_files, four-...

2026-07-13 • Alex Merced

Automated Materialized Views in Dremio

An in-depth exploration of automated materialized views in dremio...

2026-07-13 • Alex Merced

Data Lakehouse Open Standards for AI Agents

An in-depth exploration of data lakehouse open standards for ai agents...

2026-07-13 • Alex Merced

Dremio Lakehouse AI Report: Agentic Lessons

An in-depth exploration of dremio lakehouse ai report: agentic lessons...

2026-07-13 • Alex Merced

Five-Layer Agentic Lakehouse Architecture

An in-depth exploration of five-layer agentic lakehouse architecture...

2026-07-13 • Alex Merced

Hybrid Lakehouse Design for Regulated Markets

An in-depth exploration of hybrid lakehouse design for regulated markets...

2026-07-13 • Alex Merced

Zero-Copy Mirroring to Open Iceberg Tables

An in-depth exploration of zero-copy mirroring to open iceberg tables...

2026-05-28 • Alex Merced

The Death of the Data Swamp: Establishing Governance in Your 2026 Data Lakehouse

Data lakehouses become data swamps without active governance. Learn how schema enforcement, catalog stewardship, and dri...

2026-05-28 • Alex Merced

Legacy Warehouses to Open Lakehouses: A Step-by-Step Migration Playbook

Migrating from a legacy data warehouse to an open lakehouse? This step-by-step playbook covers assessment, phased migrat...

2026-05-28 • Alex Merced

Evaluating the TCO of an Open Lakehouse vs. Proprietary Data Warehouses

Open lakehouse vs proprietary warehouse: a comprehensive TCO breakdown covering storage, compute, engineering, and hidde...

2026-05-28 • Alex Merced

Real-Time BI: Enabling Sub-Second Queries on Apache Iceberg Data Lakehouses

Sub-second queries on Apache Iceberg are achievable with the right architecture. Learn how Reflections, C3 cache, and qu...

2026-05-28 • Alex Merced

The 2026 Unified Data Architecture: Reconciling Multi-Cloud Data Lakehouses

Multi-cloud data lakehouses in 2026 run on Apache Iceberg, open catalogs, and zero-ETL federation. Here's what a composa...

2026-05-24 • Alex Merced

Automating Table Maintenance Before Small Files Accumulate

Learn how Databricks Predictive Optimization, AWS S3 Tables, and Iceberg native actions automate compaction and snapshot...

2026-05-24 • Alex Merced

Choosing the Right Iceberg Control Plane: Polaris vs. Unity Catalog vs. Cloud REST

Choosing an Apache Iceberg catalog? Compare open-source Apache Polaris, open Unity Catalog, and managed cloud REST contr...

2026-05-24 • Alex Merced

What Iceberg V3 Advances Mean for CDC Pipelines

Apache Iceberg V3 brings deletion vectors and row lineage that reshape CDC pipeline design. Learn what these features me...

2026-05-24 • Alex Merced

When Paimon Beats Iceberg for Mutable Streams

Apache Paimon uses LSM-Tree storage for native CDC upserts without restart. Learn when Paimon outperforms Iceberg for hi...

2026-05-24 • Alex Merced

Real-Time Lakehouse Patterns with Apache Flink and Iceberg

Learn how to build a real-time lakehouse with Apache Flink 2.1 and the Dynamic Iceberg Sink, covering schema evolution, ...

2026-04-29 • Alex Merced

What Are Table Formats and Why Were They Needed?

Table formats like Apache Iceberg solved the ACID, schema, and performance problems that turned data lakes into data swa...

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