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Big Data Architecture 2026: Lakehouse, Streaming, Vector
The three pillars of a modern big-data platform: open-table-format lakehouse, real-time streaming, vector stores. Design decisions for 2026.
The three pillars of a modern big-data platform: open-table-format lakehouse, real-time streaming, vector stores. Design decisions for 2026.
With Snowflake, AWS and Databricks all backing it, Iceberg has become the de-facto standard for open table formats. End of vendor lock-in or new complexity?
Lake and warehouse still serve different needs. The lakehouse converges them — but the decision matrix matters more than ever.
Kimball's classic debate is still meaningful today: star versus snowflake schema and what actually changes in the cloud era.
Two leading cloud data warehouses — Synapse and Snowflake — come with different strengths. The evaluation criteria we apply for Turkish enterprises.