Open by Design: Building Lakehouses on Open Source Foundations

Modern lakehouse architectures are built on a set of foundational open-source projects that define how data is stored, managed, and evolved at scale. This session explores how these building blocks, especially open table formats and metadata-driven table management, shape modern data architectures.

Hear why open table formats like Apache Iceberg have become core architectural primitives, enabling transactions, schema evolution, time travel, and scalable metadata for analytics, streaming, and AI workloads. The session also connects these projects to Cloudera’s lakehouse direction, with Iceberg as the native table format and broad support across the ecosystem.