The document discusses modern data architectures using a logical data lake approach with data virtualization. It describes how the Denodo platform provides big data integrations by allowing Hadoop to be used as a data source, cache, and processing engine. This is demonstrated through an example showing how Denodo's cost-based optimizer and integration with SQL-on-Hadoop processing engines like Impala can optimize query performance. The document concludes that this approach can surface all company data without replication, improve governance, and leverage existing Hadoop cluster processing power controlled by Denodo's optimizer.