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How to Design a Modern, Robust Data Ingestion Architecture

Monte Carlo

A data ingestion architecture is the technical blueprint that ensures that every pulse of your organization’s data ecosystem brings critical information to where it’s needed most. Ensuring all relevant data inputs are accounted for is crucial for a comprehensive ingestion process. A typical data ingestion flow.

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Smart Schema: Enabling SQL Queries on Semi-Structured Data

Rockset

In this blog post, we show how Rockset’s Smart Schema feature lets developers use real-time SQL queries to extract meaningful insights from raw semi-structured data ingested without a predefined schema. In SQL-based systems, the data is strongly and statically typed.

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Data Warehouse vs Big Data

Knowledge Hut

Data warehouses are typically built using traditional relational database systems, employing techniques like Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) to integrate and organize data. Data warehousing offers several advantages. By structuring data in a predefined schema, data warehouses ensure data consistency and accuracy.

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Why Real-Time Analytics Requires Both the Flexibility of NoSQL and Strict Schemas of SQL Systems

Rockset

Typically stored in SQL statements, the schema also defines all the tables in the database and their relationship to each other. Companies carefully engineered their ETL data pipelines to align with their schemas (not vice-versa). SQL queries were easier to write. They also ran a lot faster. There were heavy tradeoffs, though.

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What Are the Best Data Modeling Methodologies & Processes for My Data Lake?

phData: Data Engineering

Before diving into the data models for data lakes, let’s look at the difference between a data warehouse and a data lake. There are tools designed specifically to analyze your data lake files, determine the schema, and allow for SQL statements to be run directly off this data.

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Data Engineering Weekly #133

Data Engineering Weekly

[link] Policy Genius: Data Warehouse Testing Strategies for Better Data Quality Data Testing and Data Observability are widely discussed topics in Data Engineering Weekly. Can we test SQL business logic during the development phase itself? Perhaps unit test the pipeline?

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Accelerate your Data Migration to Snowflake

RandomTrees

Lot of cloud-based data warehouses are available in the market today, out of which let us focus on Snowflake. Snowflake is an analytical data warehouse that is provided as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Built on new SQL database engine, it provides a unique architecture designed for the cloud.