Databricks Launches LTAP: A Unified OLAP/OLTP Data Architecture

epistasis 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> The New Data Foundation for the Agentic Era

Look, this announcement seemed exciting, but I'm significantly less excited when I come across a completely unrelated tie-in to AI.

It breaks the illusion, and I'm reminded that it's just another PR announcement, and this is probably not going to impact my life at all in any way ever. So I'm off to the next article instead of reading any more.

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mohsinimam 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Curious how is the final format of the data in LTAP storage - is it columnar? If so then what happens to OLTP performance - the blog and all info speaks to OLAP performance but what about your app

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geophph 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Lakebase + Lakehouse = Lake

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debarshri 7 hours ago | parent [-]

I want a lakehouse. Cant afford.

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geophph 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Warehouse for you

	▲	Incipient 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Hey I mean we've been using a fairly basic mssql box for years in a organisation of about 300 and it humms along nicely - granted we have 2 'materialised' aggregate tables/views (done in Python) but the TCO is tiny, and there is very little learning curve.
	▲	debarshri 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		I'm warehousing since 2010s, need to buy appliances
	▲	debarshri 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Shein or temu?

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drchaim 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

No benchmarks, no pricing, no examples..

	▲	zurfer 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Exactly, like SAP HANA stores everything in memory, you get great analytical and transactional performance but good luck financing that at scale