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Designing A Non-Relational Database Engine

Data Engineering Podcast

The default association with the term "database" is relational engines, but non-relational engines are also used quite widely. In this episode Oren Eini, CEO and creator of RavenDB, explores the nuances of relational vs. non-relational engines, and the strategies for designing a non-relational database.

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

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The demand for higher data velocity, faster access and analysis of data as its created and modified without waiting for slow, time-consuming bulk movement, became critical to business agility. Which turned into data lakes and data lakehouses Poor data quality turned Hadoop into a data swamp, and what sounds better than a data swamp?

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Simplify Delta Lake Complexity with mack.

Confessions of a Data Guy

Anyone who’s been roaming around the forest of Data Engineering has probably run into many of the newish tools that have been growing rapidly around the concepts of Data Warehouses, Data Lakes, and Lake Houses … the merging of the old relational database functionality with TB and PB level cloud-based file storage systems.

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Simplifying Data Architecture and Security to Accelerate Value

Snowflake

This reduces the overall complexity of getting streaming data ready to use: Simply create external access integration with your existing Kafka solution. SnowConvert is an easy-to-use code conversion tool that accelerates legacy relational database management system (RDBMS) migrations to Snowflake.

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Data Warehouse vs. Data Lake

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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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Why Open Table Format Architecture is Essential for Modern Data Systems

phData: Data Engineering

Note : Cloud Data warehouses like Snowflake and Big Query already have a default time travel feature. However, this feature becomes an absolute must-have if you are operating your analytics on top of your data lake or lakehouse. It can also be integrated into major data platforms like Snowflake. Contact phData Today!