Article: When Should You Use Liquid Clustering? Benchmarking Lakehouse Layout Strategies
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Physical data layout is one of the most consequential decisions in lakehouse engineering. The author compares Liquid Clustering, ZOrdering, and partitioning across four workload types on Delta Lake, uncovering two undocumented failure modes that likely affect production systems today and offering a decision framework for choosing the right layout strategy. By Kushal Kumar Vishwakarma