This solution brief introduces the Icehouse architecture, a modern lakehouse implementation built on Trino and Apache Iceberg within Starburst Galaxy. It delivers warehouse-like performance on open data lakes with SQL-first analytics, automated table maintenance, and elastic scaling. The document details the control, compute, and data planes, highlighting built-in governance, security, and observability. Icehouse enables federated analytics across clouds and sources while keeping data under customer control. Organizations gain improved performance, scalability, and cost efficiency without proprietary lock-in.

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