Databricks Is an RDBMS
Databricks' release of Delta Lake has combined the best features of data lakes and data warehouses, creating what they call a "Lakehouse." This development brings together the cost advantages of data lakes with the efficient querying capabilities of traditional analytical databases. The ideal system should support multi-table transactions, table and column-level permissions, structured and semi-structured data, efficient joins, SQL and procedural programming languages, and advanced statistics. Regardless of whether this is called a cloud data warehouse, data lake, or relational database management system, the convergence between these two types of systems is significant for the future of data and analytics ecosystems.
Company
Fivetran
Date published
Feb. 1, 2021
Author(s)
George Fraser
Word count
349
Language
English
Hacker News points
148