Module 27 · Applied

The open-source & vendor landscape

Databricks, Snowflake, Dremio, Starburst and friends, plus a fully open-source stack you can run yourself.

In plain words

Beyond the three clouds are vendor platforms (Databricks, Snowflake, Dremio and more) and fully open-source stacks you run yourself. This module maps equivalent pieces across all of them, so you can read any architecture diagram.

Helps to take first

Lakehouse on AWS

Words you'll meet

Lakehouse Open table format Catalog Query engine

This module is in production

Here's what it will cover.

Centrepiece

A lakehouse 'Rosetta stone': swap one architecture between AWS, GCP, Azure, vendors and pure open source and see each block change

You will understand

Vendor platforms and what they add
Open-source stack: MinIO, Iceberg, Polaris/Nessie, Spark, Trino, Airflow, Superset
Lock-in, portability and cost considerations
Mapping equivalent services across clouds

Formats

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