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A Brief History of the Lakehouse To understand where lakehouse architecture stands in 2026, it helps to trace how it got here. The data lake era (2010s) began when S3 made object storage cheap enough to store everything. Teams dropped raw files (JSON...

Why Apache Iceberg Won Three open table formats competed for the lakehouse standard over the past several years: Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake (Databricks), and Apache Hudi (Uber). By 2026, Iceberg emerged as the format that every major data platform su...
