Data Con LA 2025: What’s a Data Lake and What Does It Mean For My Open Source Stack?
CONFERENCE TALK
Data Con LA 2025: What’s a Data Lake and What Does It Mean For My Open Source Stack?
November 8 All day
Our CEO, Robert Hodges, is presenting the talk What’s a Data Lake and What Does It Mean For My Open Source Stack? at the Data CON LA 2025 Conference. The 2025 conference will be held on November 8 at California State University, Long Beach, USA.
Data lakes on open table formats are emerging as the go-to storage of large datasets for analytics, data science, and AI. This talk explains how data lakes work and how ClickHouse® is integrating them.
We’ll introduce the key components of data lakes using a concrete example based on Parquet, Iceberg open table format, and the Iceberg REST catalog. Next, we’ll look at new ClickHouse® feature adaptations, exploring specific issues like event stream ingest, compaction, and queries.
Finally, we’ll illustrate how to combine ClickHouse® with Apache Spark and Kafka to deliver fast analytics on massive, shared tables. The real-time data lake is arriving and ClickHouse® is going to be a big part of it.
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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