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Lakehouse, Delta and the Medallion Architecture
A lakehouse puts a transactional table format over cheap object storage, so a data lake gets ACID writes, schema enforcement and time travel without becoming a warehouse. The medallion layering on top (bronze, silver, gold) is less about the metaphor than about giving each layer an owner and a contract.
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