Dhillon: Data lakes will eventually drown out traditional data warehouses
Gaurav Dhillon · a16z Podcast | Making the Most of the Data That Matters · Jan 2, 2019 · at 25:17
Gaurav Dhillon, co-founder and CEO of SnapLogic, discusses enterprise data infrastructure trends on an a16z panel with Steven Sinofsky.
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“The rising tide of the data lake, we think, will drown out the data warehouse in the fullness of time.”
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