MinIO Blog

Cloud lakehouses break the bank at scale and compromise control. On-prem Iceberg lakehouses deliver speed, savings, and sovereignty. From cancer research to finance, real-world deployments prove it: petabyte-scale performance, full control, and lower TCO are within reach.

Choosing the right open table format—Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, or Apache Hudi—can make or break your data lakehouse. This guide breaks down their strengths, how they integrate with object storage, and which one is best for AI, analytics, and real-time workloads.