Snowflake

JANUARY 25, 2023

IoT devices in every industry; geolocation information on our phones, watches, cars, and every other mobile device; every website or app we access—all are collecting data. A single organization may have access to millions of attributes. For the future, our automation tools must collect and manage metadata at the column level.

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Snowflake

APRIL 30, 2025

Ransomware is a type of malicious software that encrypts a victim's data or locks their device, demanding a ransom to restore access or to not expose the data. Prevention Access controls Access to Snowflake infrastructure is protected by multiple layers of security (defense in depth and zero trust ).

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Precisely

JANUARY 30, 2025

Key Takeaways: Prioritize metadata maturity as the foundation for scalable, impactful data governance. The past year brought significant changes, from the growing importance of metadata maturity to the increasing convergence of data governance and data quality practices. How can you further improve your strategy moving forward?

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Snowflake

DECEMBER 4, 2024

For years, an essential tenet of digital transformation has been to make data accessible, to break down silos so that the enterprise can draw value from all of its data. Overall, data must be easily accessible to AI systems, with clear metadata management and a focus on relevance and timeliness.

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Cloudera

AUGUST 6, 2024

And for that future to be a reality, data teams must shift their attention to metadata, the new turf war for data. The need for unified metadata While open and distributed architectures offer many benefits, they come with their own set of challenges. Data teams actually need to unify the metadata. Open data is the future.

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Netflix Tech

MARCH 28, 2025

This scenario underscored the need for a new recommender system architecture where member preference learning is centralized, enhancing accessibility and utility across different models. Therefore, its also important to let foundation models use metadata information of entities and inputs, not just member interaction data.

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Cloudera

OCTOBER 23, 2024

In August, we wrote about how in a future where distributed data architectures are inevitable, unifying and managing operational and business metadata is critical to successfully maximizing the value of data, analytics, and AI. It is a critical feature for delivering unified access to data in distributed, multi-engine architectures.

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ThoughtSpot

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

In the realm of modern analytics platforms, where rapid and efficient processing of large datasets is essential, swift metadata access and management are critical for optimal system performance. Any delays in metadata retrieval can negatively impact user experience, resulting in decreased productivity and satisfaction.

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Cloudera

JANUARY 26, 2024

In this article, we will walk you through the process of implementing fine grained access control for the data governance framework within the Cloudera platform. In a good data governance strategy, it is important to define roles that allow the business to limit the level of access that users can have to their strategic data assets.

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Snowflake

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Ingest data more efficiently and manage costs For data managed by Snowflake, we are introducing features that help you access data easily and cost-effectively. This reduces the overall complexity of getting streaming data ready to use: Simply create external access integration with your existing Kafka solution.

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Engineering at Meta

JANUARY 22, 2025

However, these tools are limited by their lack of access to runtime data, which can lead to false positives from unexecuted code. Improving consumption experience : streamline the consumption experience to make it easier for developers and stakeholders to access and utilize data lineage information.

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Snowflake

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Agents need to access an organization's ever-growing structured and unstructured data to be effective and reliable. As data connections expand, managing access controls and efficiently retrieving accurate informationwhile maintaining strict privacy protocolsbecomes increasingly complex. text, audio) and structured (e.g.,

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Precisely

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

These enhancements improve data accessibility, enable business-friendly governance, and automate manual processes. Many businesses face roadblocks within their critical enterprise data, including struggles to achieve greater accessibility, business-friendly governance, and automation.

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Monte Carlo

APRIL 28, 2025

Next, look for automatic metadata scanning. Finally, access control helps keep things organized. It has real-time metadata updates, deep data lineage, and its flexible if you want to customize or extend it for your teams specific needs. Its built for large-scale metadata management and deep lineage tracking.

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Precisely

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Ultimately, they are trying to serve data in their marketplace and make it accessible to business and data consumers,” Yoğurtçu says. With the rise of cloud-based data management, many organizations face the challenge of accessing both on-premises and cloud-based data. Focus on metadata management.

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phData: Data Engineering

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

It serves as a vital protective measure, ensuring proper data access while managing risks like data breaches and unauthorized use. Challenges and Considerations Balancing data access and protection is essential as GenAI tools require broad access while still adhering to governance policies. No problem!

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Data Engineering Weekly

MARCH 5, 2025

This ecosystem includes: Catalogs: Services that manage metadata about Iceberg tables (e.g., Maintenance Processes: Operations that optimize Iceberg tables, such as compacting small files and managing metadata. Metadata Overhead: Iceberg relies heavily on metadata to track table changes and enable features like time travel.

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Snowflake

JUNE 5, 2024

At the same time, organizations must ensure the right people have access to the right content, while also protecting sensitive and/or Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and fulfilling a growing list of regulatory requirements. Additional built-in UI’s and privacy enhancements make it even easier to understand and manage sensitive data.

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phData: Data Engineering

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Then, we add another column called HASHKEY , add more data, and locate the S3 file containing metadata for the iceberg table. Hence, the metadata files record schema and partition changes, enabling systems to process data with the correct schema and partition structure for each relevant historical dataset.

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Data Engineering Podcast

JUNE 16, 2024

what kinds of questions are you answering with table metadata what use case/team does that support comparative utility of iceberg REST catalog What are the shortcomings of Trino and Iceberg? What were the requirements and selection criteria that led to the selection of that combination of technologies? Want to see Starburst in action?

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Snowflake

APRIL 16, 2025

Other examples include retailers who integrate product photo metadata with transaction histories to gain deeper insights of how visuals influence purchase decisions. Healthcare organizations can improve patient outcomes by correlating imaging metadata with treatment protocols and demographics. for comprehensive visual analysis.

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Snowflake

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Snowflake Horizon is Snowflake’s built-in governance solution with a unified set of compliance, security, privacy, interoperability, and access capabilities. Snowflake continues to advance Snowflake Horizon with additional capabilities for compliance, security, privacy, interoperability, and access.

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Ascend.io

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Are your tools simple to implement and accessible to users with diverse skill sets? Have you considered whether your data platform allows easy access, integration, and management of data by different teams? Assign cross-functional teams to manage these data products end-to-end to maintain quality, accessibility, and reliability.

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ThoughtSpot

APRIL 7, 2025

The challenge, however, lies in accessing the relevant data. The key question is how to identify relevant columns without accessing the actual dataset. Atlas : The in-house metadata store that enables us to deliver most of ThoughtSpot at scale and low latency. This eliminates the need to address the aforementioned challenges.

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Data Engineering Podcast

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Sign up now for early access to Materialize and get started with the power of streaming data with the same simplicity and low implementation cost as batch cloud data warehouses. Go to [dataengineeringpodcast.com/materialize]([link] Support Data Engineering Podcast

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François Nguyen

MARCH 22, 2021

and he/she has different actions to execute (reading, calling a vision API, transform, create metadata, store them, etc…). The core idea of Data Mesh is how you can develop the data usages and remove the centralized and monolitich data warehouse where you have very less access. What you have to code is this workflow !

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Snowflake

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In medicine, lower sequencing costs and improved clinical access to NGS technology has been shown to increase diagnostic yield for a range of diseases, from relatively well-understood Mendelian disorders, including muscular dystrophy and epilepsy , to rare diseases such as Alagille syndrome.

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François Nguyen

JANUARY 18, 2021

In every step,we do not just read, transform and write data, we are also doing that with the metadata. Every data governance policy about this topic must be read by a code to act in your data platform (access management, masking, etc.) Who has an access to this Data ? Last part, it was added the data security and privacy part.

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Cloudera

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Unlike traditional planners that need to consider accessing a table via a variety of types of index, Impala’s planner always starts with a full table scan and then applies pruning techniques to reduce the data scanned. Metadata Caching. See the performance results below for an example of how metadata caching helps reduce latency.

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Snowflake

MAY 21, 2024

This will enable our joint customers to experience bidirectional data access between Snowflake and Microsoft Fabric, with a single copy of data with OneLake in Fabric. Data written by either platform, Snowflake or Fabric, will be accessible from both the platforms.

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Snowflake

JUNE 21, 2024

Zero Ingest with Zero Silos : Iceberg data already managed in a data lake can be accessed directly by Snowflake via an Iceberg catalog integration. You can quickly and easily access Iceberg data in Snowflake without the additional latency that comes with ingesting or copying data.

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Snowflake

JUNE 11, 2024

The Snowflake Model Registry , in general availability, provides a centralized repository to manage all models and their related artifacts and metadata. Models are first-class, schema-level Snowflake objects that provide fine-grained role-based access control (RBAC).

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Snowflake

DECEMBER 12, 2023

To give customers flexibility for how they fit Snowflake into their data architecture, Iceberg Tables can be configured to use either Snowflake or an external service such as AWS Glue as the table’s catalog to track metadata, with an easy, one-line SQL command to convert the table’s catalog to Snowflake in a metadata-only operation.

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Cloudera

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Data and Metadata: Data inputs and data outputs produced based on the application logic. Also included, business and technical metadata, related to both data inputs / data outputs, that enable data discovery and achieving cross-organizational consensus on the definitions of data assets.

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Cloudyard

OCTOBER 15, 2024

When using Iceberg tables, every Data Definition Language ( DDL ) operation triggers the generation of a new metadata JSON file that captures the updated structure. This article outlines a process for efficiently tracking schema changes in Iceberg tables by leveraging Snowflake’s powerful metadata storage capabilities.

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Ascend.io

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Are your tools simple to implement and accessible to users with diverse skill sets? Have you considered whether your data platform allows easy access, integration, and management of data by different teams? Assign cross-functional teams to manage these data products end-to-end to maintain quality, accessibility, and reliability.

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Data Engineering Podcast

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Your host is Tobias Macey and today I'm interviewing Ryan Blue about the evolution and applications of the Iceberg table format and how he is making it more accessible at Tabular Interview Introduction How did you get involved in the area of data management?

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