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Managed Open Lakehouse Table Operations

A managed service that keeps Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, and Apache Hudi tables reliable, performant, and cost-efficient.

Added Sep 14, 2026

data infrastructure
managed data operations
cloud cost optimization
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The Problem

Data teams adopt open table formats to gain transactional reliability, interoperability, and lower storage costs, but the tables still require continual partitioning, compaction, clustering, cleanup, rollback, and metadata maintenance. Handling this work internally consumes scarce data-engineering capacity, while proprietary managed alternatives can introduce high compute costs and vendor dependence.

Potential Solution

Provide an initial lakehouse table audit followed by a managed operations service for a defined set of production tables. The operator establishes maintenance policies, executes compaction and cleanup, monitors table health and storage growth, tests rollback procedures, and recommends format or engine changes when workloads are poorly matched. Delivery begins as an expert-run service using each buyer's existing infrastructure and can later be productized through reusable checks and maintenance playbooks.

Why Now?

Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, and Apache Hudi are becoming shared storage layers across multiple processing engines, increasing both their value and operational complexity. Buyers seeking to avoid proprietary platforms need a practical way to operate these formats without building a specialized internal team.

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Google TrendsSep 14, 2026
lakehouse maintenance

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RedditSep 11, 2026
r/dataengineering
The LakeHouse that is Open Source - A Fever Dream?

Let me preface by saying that I totally agree that lakehouse table formats (delta and iceberg) are open source and are "free" technologies that anyone can use. However, the total cost of owning these table formats gets very expensive, especially when we start using cloud vendors for the table updates. Nowadays the cloud vendors wish to start selling proprietary MPP storage engine to manage all our table data. The problem is that the lakehouse table formats have gotten quite complex over time. And nobody wants to maintain them by hand. Nobody wants to think about the v ordering and z ordering and liquid clustering and partitioning and vacuuming and applying deletion vectors and so on. These blobs that are ostensibly called a "table" are actually a very leaky abstraction, and we inevitably have to waste a lot of time on the implementation details. Using immutable parquet blobs for table storage is not trivial. From an application standpoint, it seems like a massive step backwards from conventional DBMS engines (or the newer cloud-native counterparts like SQL Hyperscale or Neon/Lakebase) The vendors, like databricks, that spent years pushing for lakehouse/delta adoption are now selling us expensive solutions to maintain those unwieldy tables. I think they sold us a bill of goods and we are worse off than when we started. Once data engineers start realizing that we don't want to manage the blobs beneath our tables, these vendors are quick to offer a commercial-proprietary alternative (like "DBSQL" with UC-managed-tables, or "Fabric Warehouse" or whatever). These commercial alternatives are turnkey solutions, and they help to take away the busywork of managing our own parquet blobs. But they can become VERY expensive way of doing DML operations on our tables, since they are MPP engines and are heavy on CPU/compute. At the end of the day, we end up exchanging one type of problem for another. Is this how ot...

PodcastsSep 10, 2026
#562: DuckLake: The Lakehouse That's Just SQL and Parquet
Talk Python To Me
Pedro Holanda

And then it avoids this mid situation where you have a bunch of small files. And then Iceberg tries to solve this issue, I think, with some streaming tools. Guillermo is probably more aware of these things than me. But this will again force you to have another tool. I think it also gets in the way of transactionality or having your snapshots per data file at least because you're going to have to start batching your data and try to do it in one go. And with Duck Lake, you still preserve all of these. And yeah, like I have some numbers in this blog post, but of course we're just comparing raw Iceberg with raw Duck Lake. Yeah, so the numbers is like we got basically a thousand times faster.

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