Data Federation

1. July 28, 202630 min read

   Federating Oracle With an Open Lakehouse Instead of Migrating It

   A team is eighteen months into moving reporting off Oracle. Forty percent of the tables are in Iceberg. The remaining sixty percent are the hard…

2. July 25, 202631 min read

   What Zero-Copy Actually Costs

   A vendor demo I watched last year ended with a slide that said "no data movement." Thirty seconds earlier, the presenter had run a query joining a…

3. July 6, 202628 min read

   Federation and the Lakehouse: Two Roads to Unified Data Access, and How to Know Which One to Take

   Every data strategy document written this decade contains some version of the same sentence: we need a single place to access all our data. The…

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