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How Apache Iceberg Is Changing the Face of Data Lakes

Snowflake

Data storage has been evolving, from databases to data warehouses and expansive data lakes, with each architecture responding to different business and data needs. Traditional databases excelled at structured data and transactional workloads but struggled with performance at scale as data volumes grew.

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Announcing New Innovations for Data Warehouse, Data Lake, and Data Lakehouse in the Data Cloud 

Snowflake

Over the years, the technology landscape for data management has given rise to various architecture patterns, each thoughtfully designed to cater to specific use cases and requirements. These patterns include both centralized storage patterns like data warehouse , data lake and data lakehouse , and distributed patterns such as data mesh.

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AI and Data Predictions 2025: Strategies to Realize the Promise of AI

Snowflake

The trend to centralize data will accelerate, making sure that data is high-quality, accurate and well managed. Overall, data must be easily accessible to AI systems, with clear metadata management and a focus on relevance and timeliness.

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Eliminate Friction In Your Data Platform Through Unified Metadata Using OpenMetadata

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary A significant source of friction and wasted effort in building and integrating data management systems is the fragmentation of metadata across various tools. Start trusting your data with Monte Carlo today! Are you bored with writing scripts to move data into SaaS tools like Salesforce, Marketo, or Facebook Ads?

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Data Lake vs. Data Warehouse vs. Data Lakehouse

Sync Computing

Despite these limitations, data warehouses, introduced in the late 1980s based on ideas developed even earlier, remain in widespread use today for certain business intelligence and data analysis applications. While data warehouses are still in use, they are limited in use-cases as they only support structured data.

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Why Open Table Format Architecture is Essential for Modern Data Systems

phData: Data Engineering

First, we create an Iceberg table in Snowflake and then insert some data. Then, we add another column called HASHKEY , add more data, and locate the S3 file containing metadata for the iceberg table. In the screenshot below, we can see that the metadata file for the Iceberg table retains the snapshot history.

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Reflecting On The Past 6 Years Of Data Engineering

Data Engineering Podcast

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