Comparison

The interesting thing about comparing lakehouses with traditional architectures isn’t the feature matrix—it’s what the differences reveal about how our relationship with data has evolved. Traditional architectures treat data like inventory: store it, manage it, retrieve it. Lakehouses treat data like a living system: nurture it, evolve it, let it grow.

This fundamental shift in perspective explains why feature-by-feature comparisons miss the point. It’s not about what lakehouses can do—it’s about what they make possible.