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Setting up Data Lake on GCP using Cloud Storage and BigQuery

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction A data lake is a centralized and scalable repository storing structured and unstructured data. The need for a data lake arises from the growing volume, variety, and velocity of data companies need to manage and analyze.

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Data Integrity for AI: What’s Old is New Again

Precisely

Deploying upstream data profiling, validation, and cleansing rules was required to ensure garbage wasnt coming in, and suddenly organizations were discussing their plans for big data governance when they had yet to figure out how to implement little data governance. A data lake!

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Data Preparation with SQL Cheatsheet

KDnuggets

If your raw data is in a SQL-based data lake, why spend the time and money to export the data into a new platform for data prep?

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Data Warehouse vs. Data Lake

Precisely

Data warehouse vs. data lake, each has their own unique advantages and disadvantages; it’s helpful to understand their similarities and differences. In this article, we’ll focus on a data lake vs. data warehouse. It is often used as a foundation for enterprise data lakes.

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Open, Interoperable Storage with Iceberg Tables, Now Generally Available

Snowflake

Snowflake is now making it even easier for customers to bring the platform’s usability, performance, governance and many workloads to more data with Iceberg tables (now generally available), unlocking full storage interoperability. Iceberg tables provide compute engine interoperability over a single copy of data.

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Data Lake vs. Delta Lake: What You Need to Know

Monte Carlo

Data lakes turned into swamps , pipelines burst, and just when you thought youd earned a degree in hydrology, someone leaned in and whispered: Delta Lake. Are we building data dams next? Lets break it down and see when a plain data lake works and when youll want the extra reliability of Delta Lake.

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Data Lakes vs. Data Warehouses

Grouparoo

This article looks at the options available for storing and processing big data, which is too large for conventional databases to handle. There are two main options available, a data lake and a data warehouse. What is a Data Warehouse? What is a Data Lake?