What Is a Data Lakehouse?

The data lakehouse is an emerging technology that combines elements of data warehouses and data lakes to offer the best of both worlds. Data warehouses are structured repositories suitable for analyzing organized data, while data lakes can hold unstructured data but lack schema enforcement. A data lakehouse supports both structured and unstructured data, offers ACID transactions, and runs on cloud platforms with high scalability. It is too early to determine if the data lakehouse will replace traditional architectures, but many vendors are moving in that direction.