The Open Lakehouse Stack: DuckDB and the Rise of Table Formats

Wouldn&rsquo;t it be great to build a data warehouse on top of affordable storage and scattered files? SSDs and fast storage are expensive, but storing data in a data lake on S3 or R2 is significantly cheaper, allowing you to save a greater amount of essential data. However, the downside is that it quickly becomes messy or unorganized, lacking clear governance and rules. That&rsquo;s where…