What’s new in Lakehouse Federation?

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Every month, we see more updates to Lakehouse Federation; here is a quick overview of the latest changes:

However, first, let us talk about key benefits and use cases.

• It is excellent for several use cases, such as zero ETL or preparation for migration (comparing data sources with the results of our new scripts).
• With Lakehouse Federation, you can query different data sources without moving or copying the data. This can save time and costs, especially when avoiding complex ETLs. (also, when latency matters as, you can see results in the operational database immediately)
• As Lakehouse Federation evolves, it will become more helpful for data governance and cataloging, giving organizations a central place to manage data assets.

Hive Metastore and AWS Glue

• The Federation of the Hive Metastore is big news, especially AWS Glue.
• If your organization still uses AWS Glue or EMR, you can easily connect your Hive Metastore to Lakehouse Federation. This simplifies migrating or gradually shifting to a new data platform because you can keep using your existing catalog and tools during the transition. It is also high time that…