Ensuring an Open Data Lake Future WHITEPAPER2 dremio.com A key advantage of data lakes over data warehouses is their open architecture, minimizing the risk of vendor lock-in as well as the risk of being locked out of future industry innovation. Werner Voguls, Amazon.com CTO, recently said in a must-read blog post: “With a data lake, data is stored in an open format, which makes it easier to work with different analytic services. Open format also makes it more likely for the data to be compatible with tools that don’t even exist yet. Various roles in your organization, like data scientists, data engineers, application developers, and business analysts, can access data with their choice of analytic tools and frameworks. You’re not locked in to a small set of tools, and a broader g

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