As of April 20th, 2026, BigLake is now called Lakehouse. BigLake metastore is now called the Lakehouse runtime catalog. Lakehouse APIs, client libraries, CLI commands, and IAM names remain unchanged and still reference BigLake.
Borderless Lakehouse is a storage engine for unifying data warehouses and lakes. It enables access to open formats like Apache Iceberg, Apache Parquet, and ORC through a single copy of data without movement or duplication.
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Last updated 2026-11-13 UTC.
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