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Matt Martin's avatar

Very well written and thorough article. I like how you walked us through the history of why we are at this inflection point. This always helps ground the reader on the overall purpose of. Thanks, Matt

Alireza Sadeghi's avatar

I'm glad you found it useful.

razi marjani's avatar

مثل همیشه ازت یاد گرفتم.

عالی بود

keita's avatar

Interesting post!!

DuckLake is an interesting attempt to push metadata back into an RDB, but in terms of enterprise-level maturity, scalability, and ecosystem support, it is not yet a full substitute for Delta Lake + Unity Catalog.

While I continue to monitor DuckLake-style approaches as a research topic, I still recommend my corporate clients the proven Databricks Lakehouse for production-grade, company-wide Data & AI platform.

Alireza Sadeghi's avatar

I agree. DuckLake is still in its early stages, and it will take some time before the project matures enough to be suitable for use in corporate production environments.

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Alireza Sadeghi's avatar

That's an important point to highlight. Hive was inefficient handling similar concurrent workloads for its ACID tables, especially with table-level exclusive locks. The DuckLake specification needs to address how it will handle high-concurrency write-heavy workloads.