Cloud Data Architecture trends in 2022 and beyond…

Data is evolving, so are the data architectures

A couple of months back, I wrote about my journey of the last couple of decades in the data world & how things changed from building warehouses to building lake houses as a combination of lake & warehouse

Off-late, things have been changing rapidly in the data world with architectures & technologies evolving on daily basis. I got a few weeks’ breaks from my daily job & I tried to spend more time reading about what are the latest trends that can dominate 2022 &the next few years.

Here are my top 3 for 2022

A True Lakehouse — not the traditional Lake+House
Yes. You read that right! Lake+House seems to be a traditional architecture now. It amazes me how quickly things have changed in this space. Till last year, I thought (Data)Lake+(Ware)House was the best architecture for all data ecosystems. However, a lot of issues/limitations are now being discussed across various forums.
There seems to be a paradigm shift towards a true lakehouse.

A lakehouse that can have all the data in only one place. No need to move data into another warehouse or any other storage, no need to copy data or maintain multiple copies. A single source of truth residing only in data lakes — providing the cost benefits of lake & performance & speed of a warehouse