Article: When Should You Use Liquid Clustering? Benchmarking Lakehouse Layout Strategies

Benchmarking of Delta Lake storage layouts shows Liquid Clustering offers the best latency for diverse or evolving query workloads, outperforming ZOrder except when queries consistently filter on the same columns. ZOrder can degrade performance on time-range queries if date columns are not primary keys. Liquid Clustering also reduces operational overhead by eliminating manual optimization tasks.