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The Architectural Limits of Data Lakes and the Rise of Lakehouses

Raw files on object storage are great for cheap retention but terrible as a system of record lakehouse architecture adds transactional tables, versioned metadata, and schema contracts on top of the same storage, turning a dumping ground into a reliable analytical platform.

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