The lakehouse solution provided by MaxCompute enables you to build a data management platform that combines data lakes and data warehouses. This solution integrates the flexibility and broad ecosystem compatibility of data lakes with the enterprise-level deployment of data warehouses. This topic describes the lakehouse solution provided by MaxCompute.
Background information
MaxCompute (formerly known as ODPS) is a fast and fully managed computing platform for large-scale data warehousing. It can process exabytes of data. Compared with data lakes, data warehouses have the advantages of easy optimization and governance. However, data warehouses support fewer types of data, have lower flexibility, and are only available for specific engines. This increases the cost of data storage and processing and is not conducive to data sharing. Based on the enterprise-level metadata capabilities provided by DLF, MaxCompute enables access to data stored in data lakes by sharing metadata and implements MaxCompute lakehouses.
Solution details
For more information about the solution, see Lakehouse of MaxCompute.