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Geospatial queries are up to 38X faster with Lakehouse//RT

Spatial SQL and spatial joins now run on Lakehouse//RT and they're up to 38X faster...

Spatial SQL and spatial joins now run on Lakehouse//RT and they're up to 38X faster...

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  • Topic: Datos y Analítica — Gobierno del dato, calidad, analítica y productos de datos.
  • Source: Databricks
  • Published: 15/10/2026

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Why it matters

A beautiful dashboard can hide a bad number for months. That is why I distrust stories about visualisation that say nothing about governance: the expensive part is not displaying the number, it is guaranteeing the number means the same thing on Tuesday as on Thursday.

My criterion is that data only helps if it arrives in time for the decision it is meant to support. A perfect report that lands on the eighth for a decision taken on the third is a useless report, however correct it is. Timeliness beats precision more often than people admit.

What usually goes wrong

The frequent mistake is starting with the tool instead of the question. The platform gets bought, everything gets connected, and only then does somebody sit down to think about what they wanted to know. It almost always turns out the important question needed data nobody was capturing.

What to watch

  • Which concrete decision changes because of this and who makes it: without that, it is one more dashboard.
  • Whether definitions are agreed across areas or each one brings its own to the meeting.
  • Where the data comes from and what happens when the source system changes or fails.

How I read this entry

If this reached an organisation, I would start by agreeing ten definitions rather than a hundred: what an active customer is, what a sale is, when it counts. Written, signed and published. It is a week of uncomfortable argument that saves two years of meetings where nobody agrees.

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