Cloudera

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

A Better Way Forward: Cloudera’s Open Data Lakehouse Cloudera offers a solution to these challenges with its open data lakehouse, which combines the flexibility and scalability of data lake storage with data warehouse functionality to unify and simplify the management of cyber log data.

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Data Engineering Podcast

JUNE 17, 2021

In this episode he shares the goals of the Unstruk Data Warehouse, how it is architected to extract asset metadata and build a searchable knowledge graph from the information, and the myriad ways that the system can be used. Hightouch is the easiest way to sync data into the platforms that your business teams rely on.

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Monte Carlo

JANUARY 25, 2023

When it comes to the question of building or buying your data stack, there’s never a one-size-fits-all solution for every data team—or every component of your data stack. Data storage and compute are very much the foundation of your data platform. Let’s jump in! So, let’s take a look at each in a bit more detail.

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phData: Data Engineering

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Want to learn more about data governance? Check out our Data Governance on Snowflake blog! Metadata Management Data modeling methodologies help in managing metadata within the data lake. Metadata describes the characteristics, attributes, and context of the data.

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AltexSoft

AUGUST 29, 2023

Instead of relying on traditional hierarchical structures and predefined schemas, as in the case of data warehouses, a data lake utilizes a flat architecture. This structure is made efficient by data engineering practices that include object storage. Data warehouse vs. data lake in a nutshell.

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Monte Carlo

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

To differentiate and expand the usefulness of these models, organizations must augment them with first-party data – typically via a process called RAG (retrieval augmented generation). Today, this first-party data mostly lives in two types of data repositories.

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ProjectPro

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

With so much riding on the efficiency of ETL processes for data engineering teams, it is essential to take a deep dive into the complex world of ETL on AWS to take your data management to the next level. Data integration with ETL has changed in the last three decades. But cloud computing is preferred over the other.

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AltexSoft

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The pun being obvious, there’s more to that than just a new term: Data lakehouses combine the best features of both data lakes and data warehouses and this post will explain this all. What is a data lakehouse? Data warehouse vs data lake vs data lakehouse: What’s the difference.

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Monte Carlo

APRIL 24, 2023

Traditionally, after being stored in a data lake, raw data was then often moved to various destinations like a data warehouse for further processing, analysis, and consumption. Databricks Data Catalog and AWS Lake Formation are examples in this vein. See our post: Data Lakes vs. Data Warehouses.

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Ascend.io

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Read More: AI Data Platform: Key Requirements for Fueling AI Initiatives How Data Engineering Enables AI Data engineering is the backbone of AI’s potential to transform industries , offering the essential infrastructure that powers AI algorithms.

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Ascend.io

AUGUST 31, 2023

Secondly , the rise of data lakes that catalyzed the transition from ELT to ELT and paved the way for niche paradigms such as Reverse ETL and Zero-ETL. Still, these methods have been overshadowed by EtLT — the predominant approach reshaping today’s data landscape. Read More: What is ETL?

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Cloudera

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

To address this, they focused on creating an experimentation-oriented culture, enabled thanks to a cloud-native platform supporting the full data lifecycle. This platform, including an ad-hoc capable data warehouse service with built-in, easy-to-use visualization, made it easy for anyone to jump in and start experimenting.

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RandomTrees

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

Snowflake Overview A data warehouse is a critical part of any business organization. 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).

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Striim

JANUARY 4, 2023

Companies need to analyze large volumes of datasets, leading to an increase in data producers and consumers within their IT infrastructures. These companies collect data from production applications and B2B SaaS tools (e.g., This data makes its way into a data repository, like a data warehouse (e.g.,

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Hepta Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

This week, we got to think about our data ingestion design. We looked at the following: How do we ingest – ETL vs ELT Where do we store the data – Data lake vs data warehouse Which tool to we use to ingest – cronjob vs workflow engine NOTE : This weeks task requires good internet speed and good compute.

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ProjectPro

JANUARY 31, 2022

As the demand for big data grows, an increasing number of businesses are turning to cloud data warehouses. The cloud is the only platform to handle today's colossal data volumes because of its flexibility and scalability. Launched in 2014, Snowflake is one of the most popular cloud data solutions on the market.

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Monte Carlo

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

A data catalog is a constantly updated inventory of the universe of data assets within an organization. It uses metadata to create a picture of the data, as well as the relationships between data assets of diverse sources, and the processing that takes place as data moves through systems.

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AltexSoft

AUGUST 22, 2022

A data fabric is an architecture design presented as an integration and orchestration layer built on top of multiple disjointed data sources like relational databases , data warehouses , data lakes, data marts , IoT , legacy systems, etc., to provide a unified view of all enterprise data.

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Monte Carlo

APRIL 1, 2021

is whether to choose a data warehouse or lake to power storage and compute for their analytics. While data warehouses provide structure that makes it easy for data teams to efficiently operationalize data (i.e., Data discovery tools and platforms can help. Image courtesy of Adrian on Unsplash.

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Silectis

JANUARY 3, 2021

Big Data Processing In order to extract value or insights out of big data, one must first process it using big data processing software or frameworks, such as Hadoop. Big Query Google’s cloud data warehouse. Data Catalog An organized inventory of data assets relying on metadata to help with data management.

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AltexSoft

JUNE 26, 2023

From the perspective of data science, all miscellaneous forms of data fall into three large groups: structured, semi-structured, and unstructured. Key differences between structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. Note, though, that not any type of web scraping is legal.

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AltexSoft

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

One of the innovative ways to address this problem is to build a data hub — a platform that unites all your information sources under a single umbrella. This article explains the main concepts of a data hub, its architecture, and how it differs from data warehouses and data lakes. What is Data Hub?

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Rockset

APRIL 26, 2023

Offline feature store : Detecting anomalies requires historical data in order to have a baseline for comparisons. This data tends to be slow changing and is stored in an offline feature store. This could be a cloud data warehouse, a data lake, or a database. The database has two primary jobs.

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ProjectPro

JANUARY 24, 2023

You can leverage AWS Glue to discover, transform, and prepare your data for analytics. In addition to databases running on AWS, Glue can automatically find structured and semi-structured data kept in your data lake on Amazon S3, data warehouse on Amazon Redshift, and other storage locations.

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Towards Data Science

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Before going into further details on Delta Lake, we need to remember the concept of Data Lake, so let’s travel through some history. The main player in the context of the first data lakes was Hadoop, a distributed file system, with MapReduce, a processing paradigm built over the idea of minimal data movement and high parallelism.

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Snowflake

MARCH 30, 2023

A 2016 data science report from data enrichment platform CrowdFlower found that data scientists spend around 80% of their time in data preparation (collecting, cleaning, and organizing of data) before they can even begin to build machine learning (ML) models to deliver business value. Enter Snowpark !

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Monte Carlo

JUNE 14, 2023

The modern data stack era , roughly 2017 to present data, saw the widespread adoption of cloud computing and modern data repositories that decoupled storage from compute such as data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses. They also recently acquired Apache Flink , another streaming solution.

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Towards Data Science

MARCH 5, 2024

At its core, BigQuery is a serverless Data Warehouse for analytical purposes and built-in features like Machine Learning ( BigQuery ML ). The storage system is using Capacitor, a proprietary columnar storage format by Google for semi-structured data and the file system underneath is Colossus, the distributed file system by Google.

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Rockset

AUGUST 2, 2023

The steps Windward takes to create proprietary data and AI insights As Windward operated in a batch-based data stack, they stored raw data in S3. They used MongoDB as their metadata store to capture vessel and company data.

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Data Engineering Weekly

MARCH 24, 2023

About Schemata Schemata is a schema modeling framework for decentralized domain-driven ownership of data. Schemata combine a set of standard metadata definitions for each schema & data field and a scoring algorithm to provide a feedback loop on how efficient the data modeling of your data warehouse is.

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AltexSoft

JULY 19, 2022

In the last few decades, we’ve seen a lot of architectural approaches to building data pipelines , changing one another and promising better and easier ways of deriving insights from information. There have been relational databases, data warehouses, data lakes, and even a combination of the latter two.

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AltexSoft

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Data integration defines the process of collecting data from a number of disparate source systems and presenting it in a unified form within a centralized location like a data warehouse. So, why is data integration such a big deal? Connections to both data warehouses and data lakes are possible in any case.

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Netflix Tech

DECEMBER 14, 2018

A fundamental requirement for any lasting data system is that it should scale along with the growth of the business applications it wishes to serve. NMDB is built to be a highly scalable, multi-tenant, media metadata system that can serve a high volume of write/read throughput as well as support near real-time queries.

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AltexSoft

JULY 29, 2022

How HDFS master-slave structure works. A master node called NameNode maintains metadata with critical information, controls user access to the data blocks, makes decisions on replications, and manages slaves. You can change this parameter manually but the system won’t be able to effectively deal with myriads of tiny data pieces.

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ProjectPro

JANUARY 31, 2023

Data Variety Hadoop stores structured, semi-structured and unstructured data. RDBMS stores structured data. Data storage Hadoop stores large data sets. RDBMS stores the average amount of data. Works with only structured data. Hardware Hadoop uses commodity hardware.

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Ascend.io

JUNE 8, 2023

Data Ingestion Data in today’s businesses come from an array of sources, including various clouds, APIs, warehouses, and applications. This multitude of sources often causes a dispersed, complex, and poorly structured data landscape.

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ProjectPro

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

With SQL, machine learning, real-time data streaming, graph processing, and other features, this leads to incredibly rapid big data processing. DataFrames are used by Spark SQL to accommodate structured and semi-structured data. Calcite has chosen to stay out of the data storage and processing business.

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