Episode 70:

The Difference Between Data Lakes and Data Warehouses with Vinoth Chandar of Apache Hudi

January 12, 2022

This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas chat with Vinoth Chandar, Creator of the Hudi Project at the Apache Software Foundation. During the episode, Vinosh discusses his experiences building data lakes at companies like LinkedIn, Uber, and Confluent. He also gets into the differences between datalakes and warehouses, and when going open source makes sense.

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Notes:

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

 

  • Vinoth’s career background (3:19)
  • Building a data lake at Uber (6:52)
  • Defining what a data lake is (14:01)
  • How data warehouses differ from data lakes (22:46)
  • When you should utilize an open source solution in your datastack (37:36)
  • Evolving from a data warehouse to a data lake (45:09)
  • Early wins Hudi earned inside of Uber (52:30)

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