The Azure Data Lakehouse Toolkit: Building and Scaling Data Lakehouses on Azure with Delta Lake, Apache Spark, Databricks, Synapse Analytics, and Snowflake

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1. The Data Lakehouse Paradigm

Ron L’Esteve¹  

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Chicago, IL, USA

 

In this chapter, you will learn about the Lakehouse architectural best practices, patterns, and Apache Spark capabilities in the Lakehouse. You will also learn about the many Azure-centric technologies that support Spark for ELT, advanced analytics, storage, compute, and reporting to form the modern Data Lakehouse architecture.

Background

Prior to the introduction of massively parallel processing (MPP) architectures in the early 1990s, the analytics database market was dominated by symmetrical multiprocessing ...