Observed arrival · 2026-09-04

Lavalake Puts the Data Warehouse Behind the Firewall

lavalakelab.com Observed source

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Lavalake is a self-hosted data platform combining an Apache Iceberg lakehouse, semantic search, governance controls, dashboards, and an MCP server for AI agents.

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Lavalake describes a self-hosted analytics stack built around Apache Iceberg on S3-compatible storage, with semantic metrics, hybrid search, dashboards, identity controls, policies, and WORM audit behind one reverse proxy. The page names PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Microsoft SQL Server as read-only inputs and lists files, documents, and MCP servers as additional ingestion paths. Deployment is presented as Docker Compose for trying the system and Helm on Kubernetes for operation, with Tableau and an MCP server as named integrations.

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