VentureBeat November 15, 2023
In a new open-source partnership development effort announced today, Microsoft is joining with Google and Onehouse in supporting the OneTable project, which could reshape the cloud data lake landscape for years to come.
Over the last several years, organizations have had to make a decision on what data lake table format to use. It’s a decision that could potentially have led to vendor lock-in and compatibility challenges for data analytics and AI workloads. Among the primary data lake table formats are the Apache Iceberg and Apache Hudi technologies as well as the Databricks’ led Delta Lake.
The OneTable project, which was started by Onehouse, is an attempt to create a new layer that sits on top of the data lake...