The Five Layers of an Agentic Lakehouse
August 19, 2026The five layers of an agentic lakehouse: Storage, Catalog, Semantic, Gateway, and Agent Surface, and how one question travels through all of them.
The five layers of an agentic lakehouse: Storage, Catalog, Semantic, Gateway, and Agent Surface, and how one question travels through all of them.
Query routing at machine scale for the agentic lakehouse: engine selection, acceleration substitution, admission control, and placement across multi-engine estates.

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That distinction matters. The agentic lakehouse is not only a table-format problem. It is an orchestration problem, a governance problem, and an observability problem.