In this episode, Chris discusses the concept of the Open Data Lakehouse, with Sam Pierson (CTO, Qlik) and Ori Rafael (Senior Director of Engineering, Qlik). As data becomes an increasingly important strategy within the enterprise, business want to scale access to information rapidly, while maintaining a control on costs.
The Qlik Open Lakehouse, based on a a fully-managed Apache Iceberg solution has now been integrated into the Qlik Talend Cloud and recently reached general availability. Sam and Ori take Chris through a discussion that explains the evolution of data warehouses to the lakehouse concept and how Apache Iceberg has emerged as the open source standard for Lakehouse metadata.
Qlik Open Lakehouse brings the skills and IP from the Qlik acquisition of Upsolver in January 2025, where Ori was CEO and co-founder. The capabilities of Upsolver to optimise storage and lakehouse resources are now fully integrated into Qlik Talend Cloud.
More details can be found online here – https://www.qlik.com/us/products/qlik-open-lakehouse
News on the GA announcement is available here – https://www.qlik.com/us/news/company/press-room/press-releases/qlik-open-lakehouse-now-generally-available
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Timeline
- 00:00:00 – Intros
- 00:01:35 – Open Lakehouse – what is it, and how has it evolved from Data warehousing?
- 00:02:36 – Mainframes onwards, data has been stored in many forms, including Hadoop
- 00:04:07 – Data is now a mix of structured and unstructured content to be analysed together
- 00:06:19 – The public cloud has enabled data lakehouses to be easily implemented
- 00:13:56 – An open architecture enables flexible APIs and data processing integration
- 00:15:01 – What do we mean by an “open” lakehouse?
- 00:16:20 – Apache Iceberg has become the open standard for data catalogues.
- 00:20:00 – Data on Iceberg needs management, which can be achieved in multiple ways
- 00:21:10 – Where did Iceberg originate and who maintains it today?
- 00:24:30 – From where did Upsolver originate?
- 00:27:24 – How does Upscaler fit into the Qlik Talend Cloud?
- 00:33:38 – Qlik and Upscaler provide sovereignty controls and choice on customer data
- 00:37:31 – What challenges are Qlik customers seeing with AI and data management?
- 00:41:13 – Our previous podcast completes the picture on data quality and data management
- 00:41:50 – Wrap Up
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