We are living in an era of advanced lakehouse platforms. Lakehouses have distinctive capabilities when compared to data warehouses and data lakes. Previously, to build the right data architecture, data professionals had to decide whether they wanted to use a data warehouse or a data lake or a combination of both. For each workload, they would need to consider the data volume, transaction logs, and business intelligence needed before choosing a platform.
In Chapter 1, we discussed that lakehouses come ...