Exploring Database Lakehouse Architecture Design Patterns: Best Practices and Considerations
Exploring Database Lakehouse Architecture Design Patterns: Best Practices and Considerations
Abstract: Organizations face challenges in managing diverse, large-scale datasets while ensuring scalability, efficiency, and
quality. Traditional data lakes and warehouses often fall short in modern big data environments. The Lakehouse architecture
unit both, but cloud implementation faces issues like optimized ingestion, efficient storage, and integration of multiple data
engines. Sectors like healthcare and agriculture struggle with real-time data and IoT, leading to inefficiencies. Current
research highlights gaps in performance, scalability, and the integration of advanced analytics. Future work should focus on
improving large dataset handling, real-time processing, and machine learning integration for better decision-making and
performance.
Keywords: Lakehouse Architecture, Big Data Integration, Cloud Computing, Real-Time Data Processing, Federated Governance,
Machine Learning.
How to Cite: Krishna Prisad Bajgai; Dr. Bhoj Raj Ghimire (2025). Exploring Database Lakehouse Architecture Design Patterns:
Best Practices and Considerations. International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology, 10(2), 550-557.
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14921215
Fig 1 From: The Lakehouse: State of the Art on Concepts and Technologies
Problem Statement: lakes, often fail to meet the demands of modern big data
Many of the Organizations face growing challenges in landscapes. The lack of integration between these
managing large-scale, diverse datasets as traditional architectures results in inefficiencies, operational bottlenecks,
architectures like data lakes and warehouses often fall short in and limited support for data-driven decision-making [1][2].
scalability and efficiency [1]. The Lakehouse architecture
offers a unified solution, but its cloud-based implementation The emerging "Lakehouse" architecture offers a unified
poses complexities such as data ingestion, storage solution that combines the advanced analytics capabilities of
optimization, and processing integration [12]. Industries like data warehouses with the scalability and flexibility of data
healthcare and agriculture struggle with real-time data and IoT lakes. However, implementing lakehouses in cloud-based
devices, highlighting the need for advancements in environments introduces complexities, including the need for
performance, scalability, and machine learning integration optimized data ingestion, efficient storage mechanisms, and
[5][7]. Future research must address these gaps to optimize seamless sintegration of multiple data processing
cost, enhance decision-making, and validate Lakehouse engines.[4][10].
systems in diverse, large-scale deployments [9].
In particular, the healthcare and agriculture sectors
Organizations struggle to manage large, diverse datasets illustrate the challenges of managing diverse data sources,
due to the inefficiencies of traditional data architectures like such as IoT devices, sensors, and real-time monitoring
warehouses and lakes [1]. While the Lakehouse architecture systems. Existing systems struggle to handle the velocity and
offers a unified solution, challenges persist in cloud-based variety of data, leading to inefficiencies in clinical decision-
implementations, including data ingestion, storage making and precision farming applications [5]
optimization, governance, and query performance [13].
Sectors like healthcare and agriculture face additional hurdles Additionally, managing graph data in lakehouse
with real-time and graph data, necessitating innovative environments poses unique challenges, as traditional columnar
solutions to enhance scalability, integration, and decision- storage formats like Parquet and ORC are not optimized for
making [5][6][7]. graph analytics. This limitation hinders performance for
operations such as neighbor retrieval and label filtering,
II. LITERATURE REVIEW necessitating novel storage solutions tailored for graph
data[6].
Organizations today face significant challenges in
managing and integrating diverse, large-scale datasets while Organizations also encounter difficulties in
ensuring scalability, efficiency, and data quality. Traditional implementing federated governance and ensuring data quality
centralized architectures, such as data warehouses and data within distributed architectures like data meshes. Effective
Integration of OLAP and OLTP Systems It focuses on labeled property graphs (LPG) and employs
Novel approaches to managing data consistency and innovative encoding/decoding techniques.[6]
schema enforcement by integrating OLAP and OLTP within
lakehouse architectures were proposed.[8][9][10]. Healthcare Data Lakes
Explored technologies for real-time data processing in
Data Mesh Architecture healthcare data lakes, including:
Emphasized a domain-oriented decentralized approach,
treating data as a product, assigning ownership to domain Data Ingestion: Platforms like Apache Kafka and Apache
teams, and implementing self-serve data platforms for Flink.
enhanced accessibility and management.[3] Data Storage: Scalable solutions such as HDFS and cloud
storage.
Federated Governance in Data Mesh Data Processing: Real-time analytics frameworks.
Proposed federated computational governance, which Data Mining: Machine learning for predictive analytics
ensures consistent policies across domains while granting and personalized care.[7]
local autonomy.[4]
Lakehouse Architecture Innovations
Cloud and Distributed Computing for Agriculture Built on open, direct-access data formats and
Reviewed centralized and distributed cloud architectures incorporates features like ACID transactions, data versioning,
for agriculture. These strategies optimize data storage, and indexing. Supports machine learning workloads
processing, and analysis for Agriculture 4.0.[5] effectively.[8]
GraphAr for Graph Data in Data Lakes Comparative Reviews
Introduced GraphAr as a specialized storage scheme Analyzed strengths and weaknesses of existing DW and
leveraging Parquet for graph data management in data lakes. DL technologies, highlighting desired features for Lakehouse
systems.[9]
B. Accuracy Evaluation Methods : based methods. Key metrics include speedup in neighbor
Aravind Nuthalapati (2024), This paper primarily retrieval, label filtering, and end-to-end workload
focuses on best practices and future directions for data lake- efficiency[6].
houses but does not specify a formal method for accuracy
evaluation.[1] Mitul Tilala et al. (2022), Explores healthcare data lakes
but does not provide formal accuracy evaluation methods.[7]
Jan Schneider et al. (2024) Evaluates the performance
of the lakehouse model using the TPC-DS benchmark, Michael Armbrust et al. (2021), Performance of the
comparing query execution times, data ingestion rates, and Lakehouse system is benchmarked using TPC-DS,
resource utilization. demonstrating advanced query performance comparable to
cloud data warehouses.[8]
The results show that the Lakehouse system built on
Parquet is competitive with popular cloud data warehouses.[2] Dipankar Mazumdar et al. (2023), Provides conceptual
discussions on the benefits of lakehouses without presenting
Otmane Azeroual and Radka Nacheva (2023), formal accuracy evaluations.[9]
Conceptual discussion on data mesh and its architectural
benefits; however, no formal accuracy evaluation or Ahmed Harby and Farhana Zulkernine (2022), A
performance benchmarks are included.[3] comparative review of data warehouse and lakehouse
technologies, but no empirical evaluations are reported.[10]
Anton Dolhopolov et al. (2024), Discusses federated
governance in data mesh architecture but does not provide Rana Alotaibi et al. (2024), Discusses the potential
empirical accuracy evaluations.[4] performance optimizations of Query Optimizer as a Service
(QOaaS) but lacks empirical accuracy benchmarks.[11]
Olivier Debauche et al. (2021), Reviews cloud and
distributed architectures for agriculture data management but Chiara Rucco et al. (2024), Proposes a cloud-based
lacks empirical accuracy benchmarks.[5] design pattern for optimizing data ingestion but does not
specify accuracy evaluation methods.[12]
Xue Li et al. (2024), Evaluates GraphAr's performance
by benchmarking against conventional Parquet and Acero-
Future Work: Future studies could include empirical Rana Alotaibi et al. (2024)
evaluations of these architectures in real agricultural
settings, focusing on scalability and integration with Limitations: While QOaaS is promising, the paper
other technologies.[5] acknowledges the challenge of implementing flexible
cardinality estimation and adapting it to different cost
Xue Li et al. (2024) models.
Limitations: Graph data storage schemes in data lakes Future Work: Research should focus on prototyping
need further refinement for larger datasets, and the QOaaS, refining its approach, and evaluating its real-
approach does not discuss performance issues when world performance in large systems.[11]
scaling.
Chiara Rucco et al. (2024)
Future Work: Future research should explore the
scalability of GraphAr, especially with very large Limitations: The paper suggests using a cloud-based
datasets, and enhance integration with distributed design pattern for data ingestion but does not explore the
systems.[6] limitations in processing speed or data variety under
high-load scenarios.
Mitul Tilala et al. (2022)
Future Work: Future research should address the
Limitations: The paper focuses on real-time data scalability of the ingestion pattern and integrate AI-driven
processing in healthcare but does not address challenges in optimizations for processing diverse data types.[12]
scaling real-time systems or integration with legacy
healthcare systems. Alexander Behm et al. (2022)
Future Work: Future research should examine scalability Limitations: The study focuses on Photon’s query engine
in large healthcare systems and explore integration with performance but does not discuss its scalability issues or
AI-driven diagnostic tools.[7] its effectiveness across different data workloads.
Michael Armbrust et al. (2021) Future Work: Future research could focus on optimizing
Photon for a broader range of workloads and exploring
Limitations: The paper presents the lakehouse as a integration with other data processing frameworks.[13]
solution but acknowledges that real-world performance
and the practicality of large-scale implementation Otmane Azeroual et al. (2022)
require further evaluation.
Limitations: The paper focuses on combining data lakes
Future Work: Future research should explore additional with wrangling but does not deeply analyze real-time
features, optimize performance for various data processing challenges or large-scale implementation
workloads, and address challenges faced during constraints.
implementation.[8]
Future Work: Future work could involve empirical
Dipankar Mazumdar et al. (2023) validation of the proposed model in real-world CRIS
implementations.[14].
Limitations: The article highlights benefits but does not
explore the specific challenges in real-world
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