● New Dremio survey of enterprise IT professionals finds data lakehouses are the primary architecture for delivering analytics, with 65% running a majority of analytics on lakehouses
● Over half are saving more than 50% on analytics, and 81% are using a data lakehouse to support work on AI models and applications
Dremio, the easy and open data lakehouse, today announced the release of its survey findings and full report, The State of the Data Lakehouse, 2024. The report offers fresh insights from 500 full-time enterprise IT and data professionals on data lakehouse adoption, open table format trends, data mesh implementation for self-service analytics, and AI’s impact on the lakehouse and beyond.
Data lakehouse adoption is on the rise and cost savings are key
The data lakehouse is fast becoming the primary architecture for delivering analytics. With 65% running a majority of analytics on lakehouses now, survey respondents cited cost efficiency and ease of use as the top reasons.
- 70% of respondents say more than half of all analytics will be on the data lakehouse within three years, and 86% said their organization plans to unify analytics data.
- Over half (56%) expect they are saving more than 50% on analytics by moving to the data lakehouse; almost 30% of respondents from large enterprises with more than 10,000 employees expect their savings are greater than 75%.
- 42% moved from a cloud data warehouse to the data lakehouse—more than from any other environment. Top reasons for the shift were cost efficiency and ease of use.
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