What is a Lakehouse? - The Databricks Blog

Over the past few years at Databricks, we've seen a new data management paradigm that emerged independently across many customers and use cases: the lakehouse. In this post we describe this new paradigm and its advantages over previous approaches. Data warehouses have a long history in decision support and business intelligence applications. Since its inception in the late 1980s, data warehouse technology continued to evolve and MPP architectures led to systems that were able to handle larger data sizes. But while warehouses were great for structured data, a lot of modern enterprises have to deal with unstructured data, semi-structured data, and data with high variety, velocity, and volume.