Lakehouse Turbo

Learn about the Lakehouse Turbo plug-in query engine in Exasol.

Lakehouse Turbo is a plug-in query engine that enables you to use the high-speed query performance of Exasol with a data lakehouse.

Lakehouse Turbo connects to your data lakehouse, scans metadata, and smartly accelerates selected tables, automatically and incrementally. The Exasol engine will then operate on the cached data, enabling fast, concurrent queries without touching your existing pipelines or storage layers.

This section describes how to configure and use Lakehouse Turbo. For more information about the advantages of Lakehouse Turbo, visit the Lakehouse Turbo home page.

Lakehouse Turbo is supported in as-application deployments of Exasol 2026.1 and later (including Exasol Personal) and in Exasol SaaS.

This section describes Lakehouse Turbo in an as-application deployment of Exasol. To learn how to use Lakehouse Turbo in Exasol SaaS, see Lakehouse Turbo (SaaS).

Key features

Change data capture (CDC)

  • Supports incremental loads for new, updated, or deleted rows

  • Provides deletion vector support for efficient data management

Schema evolution

Lakehouse Turbo supports dynamic schema changes, including:

  • Adding new columns

  • Dropping existing columns

  • Data type widening

Parallel loads

  • Allows parallel ingestion of multiple Parquet files

  • Maximizes performance through distributed loading