What type of data store is ideal for handling both structured and unstructured data in the AnalyticsPOC workspace?

A lakehouse is an ideal data store for handling both structured and unstructured data in the AnalyticsPOC workspace due to its combination of features from data lakes and data warehouses. It provides the flexibility and scalability associated with data lakes, allowing for the storage of raw and unstructured data, while also supporting the structured data querying and management capabilities of traditional data warehouses.

In a lakehouse architecture, data can be stored in open formats, making it accessible for various analytics and machine learning tools, which is essential in a workspace focused on analytics. This architecture promotes data versioning, ACID transactions, and schema enforcement, which are typically features of data warehouses, while still allowing for the diverse data types and large volumes of data that characterize data lakes.

The other options serve specific purposes that may not align as effectively with the requirement to manage both structured and unstructured data. A data lake primarily focuses on storing vast amounts of unstructured data, lacking the performance optimizations for structured data typically found in data warehouses. A traditional warehouse is more suited for structured data, but does not accommodate unstructured data as effectively. An external Hive metastore is a metadata management system for managing schemas and data paths in the Hadoop ecosystem, but it does not perform data storage itself