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Databricks Is an RDBMS

What's this blog post about?

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


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