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127: The Anatomy of a Data Lakehouse with Alex Merced of Dremio

The Data Stack Show

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What's the Main Goal of Table Formats?

JCPenney: Modern data formats, table formats, could be delta. Basically their goals are solved out. They say, hey, we need to find some other way to sit and say, okay, these files make up X table. And then at the end of the day, you have to scan the files that absolutely don't need to be scanned. So all three of them are doing trying to skip data. You don't want to scan because you scan less data, you speed up the query without having to spend more on compute. Okay. Go faster without spending more.

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