Highlights
- The lakehouse repackages warehouse discipline — Delta Lake's ACID tables, schema enforcement, and governance via Unity Catalog are the old structural virtues re-implemented on files; a platform conceding that schema-on-read magic needed structure back.
- "Data intelligence" is platform + AI, with rules implied but underweighted — the pitch fuses data management and AI on one platform; through the missing-system lens the interesting question is where the business-rules layer lives, because the platform brochure rarely answers it.
- Centralized catalog as the control plane — putting lineage, access, and metadata in one governed catalog is the platform-vendor version of the claim that metadata, not compute, is where control belongs.
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