data lakehouse

noun

A hybrid architecture combining data lake and data warehouse principles.

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Meanings

noundata lakehouse (plural data lakehouses)

plural data lakehouses

  1. computingA hybrid architecture combining data lake and data warehouse principles.
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    In examples of data lakes or data lakehouse architectures, you will often see bronze/silver/gold or raw, curated, optimized layers, which serve as both reference points within the transformation process that happens to data and for data that might have been referred to as staging tables in older data warehouse terminology.

    2023, Greg Beaumont, Power BI Machine Learning and OpenAI […] , Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 27

Origin

Blend of data lake + data warehouse. Coined by American company Databricks in 2020 in a corporate whitepaper.

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