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State of Open Con® 25 London: What’s a Data Lake and What Does It Mean For My Open Source Stack?
CONFERENCE TALK
What’s a Data Lake and What Does It Mean For My Open Source Stack?
February 4 @ 4:30 pm – 4:45 pm London, UK
The UK’s Open Technology Conference, Open Source Software, Open Hardware, Open Data, Open Standards, & AI Openness is happening on the 4th and the 5th of February 2025, in Sancroft, Rose St, Paternoster Sq., St Paul’s London EC4M 7DQ.
Our CEO, Robert Hodges, will be presenting the talk:
What’s a Data Lake and What Does It Mean For My Open Source Stack?
Data lakes on open table formats like Iceberg are a popular way to manage large datasets for analytics, data science, and AI. This talk explains how data lakes work and how to adapt open source analytic stacks to use them. First, we’ll tour projects like Arrow, Iceberg, and Unity Catalog that make data lakes possible. Next, we’ll see how analytic engines like DuckDB, ClickHouse, and Spark are adapting. Finally, we’ll survey a few projects that enable applications written in Python, Golang, or Rust to deliver fast query. You’ll have to build the app yourself but this talk will show you a path to use data lakes and open source successfully.
About the Presenter
Robert Hodges – CEO at Altinity
Robert Hodges serves as CEO at Altinity, a leading software and services provider for ClickHouse. Robert has more than 30 years of experience with database systems and applications including pre-relational databases such as M204, online SQL transaction processing, Hadoop, and analytics. In the last few years, his work has focused on analytical databases, Kubernetes, and open source.
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