How Netflix and Uber helped create the data lakehouse by preserving an open-source tradition

March 2, 2022

Tech giants built the data lakehouse out of necessity. Now their open-source foundations are being commercialized by other companies, including Dremio, which launched wide availability of its Dremio Cloud service Wednesday.

Dremio, which calls itself a lakehouse company, announced Wednesday that its Dremio Cloud data lakehouse platform — based in part on Apache Iceberg — is now widely available.

“A lakehouse needs to be open source: That’s why Iceberg has started to get so much momentum,” said Tomer Shiran, founder and chief product officer at Dremio. Companies that need to perform business analytics on top of huge amounts of data such as Netflix, Apple and Salesforce helped build Apache Iceberg, Shiran said, “because these companies needed something like that. Tech companies have been at the leading edge in terms of adopting this kind of architecture.”

Right now, open-source data lakehouse architectures are following a pattern seen with other data standards built or used inside large Silicon Valley tech companies before businesses began moving data to the cloud. For instance, more than a decade before Yahoo spun out its open-source data analytics software Hadoop as a new company, companies including eBay and Facebook used it internally.

Read the full article here on Protocol.

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