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This Week in Open Lakehouse

Hosted by Lisa Cao and Scott Haines · technology · EN

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This Week in Open Lakehouse is a weekly data engineering podcast discussing the latest in open source news, including query engines, data catalogs, open table formats, orchestrators, and streaming technologies. Produced by the Databricks DevRel team. https://openlakehouse.io/

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What is This Week in Open Lakehouse about?

This Week in Open Lakehouse is a weekly data engineering podcast discussing the latest in open source news, including query engines, data catalogs, open table formats, orchestrators, and streaming technologies. Produced by the Databricks DevRel team.

Who hosts This Week in Open Lakehouse?

This Week in Open Lakehouse is hosted by Lisa Cao and Scott Haines. The show has published 6 episodes to date.

What has This Week in Open Lakehouse covered recently?

Recent episodes include "DuckDB 2.0, External Lookup Joins, Arrow Database Connectivity, and OpenCode 2.0" (28 October 2026, 72 minutes), "Unity Catalog 0.7, Paimon 2.1, Hudi 1.1.2, Arrow 26.0, and new ASF top-level projects" (23 October 2026, 62 minutes), and "DataFusion Ballista 55.0, Unity Catalog Native Iceberg Support, Parquet VECTOR type, and MLflow 3.17" (13 October 2026, 86 minutes).

How often does This Week in Open Lakehouse publish?

This Week in Open Lakehouse publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 63 minutes across 6 episodes.

How hard is it to get booked on This Week in Open Lakehouse?

Booking probability for This Week in Open Lakehouse is 36%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. This Week in Open Lakehouse requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. This Week in Open Lakehouse's contact route on record: public web form.

Who should pitch This Week in Open Lakehouse?

The strongest fits for This Week in Open Lakehouse are IT Services & Software Development. This Week in Open Lakehouse has a technology audience.

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Lisa Cao and Scott Haines hosts This Week in Open Lakehouse, a technology podcast with 6 episodes published.

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Recent episodes

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  • Episode #7

    DuckDB 2.0, External Lookup Joins, Arrow Database Connectivity, and OpenCode 2.0

    Oct 28, 20261h 12mS1

    This week, Scott and Lisa recap a busy week across the open lakehouse ecosystem, from DuckDB 2.0 and Iceberg’s evolving V4 spec to new proposals for Spark, Flink, and Airflow. They also discuss catalog security and...

  • This Week in Open Lakehouse

    DataFusion Ballista 55.0, Unity Catalog Native Iceberg Support, Parquet VECTOR type, and MLflow 3.17

    Oct 13, 20261h 26m

    In this episode, Lisa and Scott cover a dense week of open-source data infrastructure updates from Community Over Code and Data and AI Weekend. They explore new release activity across the lakehouse stack, the growing...

  • Episode #4

    Iceberg 1.12, OIDC Credentials, Spark Connect Gateway, Arrow JSON Schemas, and Release Management

    Oct 6, 20261h 11mS1

    <p>In this episode, Lisa and Scott explore the latest developments across the open data ecosystem, including Delta Rust, Apache Iceberg, Apache Spark, Rust-native infrastructure, and the challenges of keeping rapidly...

  • Episode #4

    Iceberg 1.12, OIDC Credentials, Spark Connect Gateway, Arrow JSON Schemas, and Release Management

    Oct 6, 20261h 11mS1

    In this episode, Lisa and Scott explore the latest developments across the open data ecosystem, including Delta Rust, Apache Iceberg, Apache Spark, Rust-native infrastructure, and the challenges of keeping rapidly...

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  • This Week in Open Lakehouse

    XML Functions, Polars 2.0, delta-rs, and Agent Thrashing Policies

    Sep 29, 20261h 7m

    In this episode, Lisa and Scott explore recent updates in ecosystem technologies including Apache Iceberg, Apache Flink, Polars, delta-rs, highlighting their frustrations in agent workflows and a potential oversight on...

  • This Week in Open Lakehouse

    XML Functions, Polars 2.0, delta-rs, and Agent Thrashing Policies

    Sep 29, 20261h 7mS0

    <p>In this episode, Lisa and Scott explore recent updates in ecosystem technologies including Apache Iceberg, Apache Flink, Polars, delta-rs, highlighting their frustrations in agent workflows and a potential oversight...

  • This Week in Open Lakehouse

    FileTypes, Language-Agnostic UDFs, Parquet Versioning, and Iceberg Updates

    Sep 18, 202623 min

    In this episode, Lisa and Scott explore recent updates in data ecosystem technologies including Apache Iceberg, Apache DataFusion, Apache Parquet, and the Lakekeeper Iceberg Rest Catalog, highlighting their implications...

  • This Week in Open Lakehouse

    FileTypes, Language-Agnostic UDFs, Parquet Versioning, and Iceberg Updates

    Sep 18, 202623 minS0

    <p>In this episode, Lisa and Scott explore recent updates in data ecosystem technologies including Apache Iceberg, Apache DataFusion, Apache Parquet, and the Lakekeeper Iceberg Rest Catalog, highlighting their...

  • This Week in Open Lakehouse

    Nanosecond Timestamp Precision, Iceberg-Datafusion,Spark Connect Rust Client, and Parquet Types

    Sep 18, 20261h 16m

    The biggest throughline this week is format-layer consolidation. Apache Parquet 2.14.0 shipped as a final release, carrying chronological ordering for INT96 timestamps and Variant documentation fixes, while a parallel...

  • This Week in Open Lakehouse

    Nanosecond Timestamp Precision, Iceberg-Datafusion,Spark Connect Rust Client, and Parquet Types

    Sep 18, 20261h 16mS0

    <p>The biggest throughline this week is format-layer consolidation. Apache Parquet 2.14.0 shipped as a final release, carrying chronological ordering for INT96 timestamps and Variant documentation fixes, while a...

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