Slide: Lakehouse/RT on live Lakebase data, showing the Postgres compute handing a catalog, MVCC snapshot and LSN to the Lakehouse/RT driver, whose executors read pages straight from the pageservers

Lakebases, Lakehouses, and LTAP: Ippo Pandis at CMU

Ippokratis “Ippo” Pandis did his PhD in the CMU database group, worked on DB2 BLU at IBM, Impala at Cloudera, spent ten years on Redshift at AWS, and is now a distinguished engineer at Databricks. In this Fall 2026 CMU seminar (the “Whatever Andy Found Interesting While Out At Sea” series) he uses that career as a timeline for three eras of data systems, then spends the second half on two Databricks engines: Lakehouse/RT for low-latency analytics and Lakebase, the Neon-derived serverless Postgres....

October 31, 2026 · 9 min · AI Assistant