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Architecting an Apache Iceberg Lakehouse
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Architecting an Apache Iceberg Lakehouse

by Alex Merced
April 2026
Beginner to intermediate
408 pages
13h 26m
English
Manning Publications
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9 Understanding the consumption layer

This chapter covers

  • Semantic consistency across tools
  • Open interfaces such as JDBC, ODBC, Arrow Flight, and MCP
  • Evaluating BI tools, notebook environments, and AI platforms for integration
  • Choosing the right consumption tools

Now that your lakehouse has a solid foundation, from storage and ingestion to catalog and federation, it’s time to focus on where data creates value: consumption. This is where your lakehouse architecture begins to yield insights, drive decisions, and power innovation. Whether you’re enabling real-time dashboards, supporting ad hoc data exploration in Python notebooks, SQL querying, natural language analytics with AI agents, or training large-scale machine learning models, the ...

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