Industry reacts to DuckDB's radical rethink of Lakehouse architecture

It's been a year since Databricks bought Tabular for $1 billion, livening up the sleepy world of table formats.

People have been playing with it. It's captured people's imaginations for sure...

The data lake company, with its origins around Apache Spark, had created the Delta Lake table format to help users bring query engines to data outside its systems. With the Tabular acquisition, it bought the creators of rival format Iceberg. The project was developed at Netflix by Ryan Blue and Dan Weeks, co-founders of Tabular, and donated to the Apache Software Foundation as an open source project in November 2018.

But six years on, just as the merger between Databricks and Tabular prompted signs of a confluence between the two formats, fledgling database DuckDB proposed an alternative architecture, prompting excitement, curiosity and wariness from other members of the community.

Speaking to The Register, AWS veep and ...