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Every Company is Becoming a Software Company

Confluent

Of course, this is not to imply that companies will become only software (there are still plenty of people in even the most software-centric companies), just that the full scope of the business is captured in an integrated software defined process. Here, the bank loan business division has essentially become software.

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Building a Scalable Search Architecture

Confluent

As the databases professor at my university used to say, it depends. Using SQL to run your search might be enough for your use case, but as your project requirements grow and more advanced features are needed—for example, enabling synonyms, multilingual search, or even machine learning—your relational database might not be enough.

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Hadoop vs Spark: Main Big Data Tools Explained

AltexSoft

Data engineers who previously worked only with relational database management systems and SQL queries need training to take advantage of Hadoop. Apache HBase , a noSQL database on top of HDFS, is designed to store huge tables, with millions of columns and billions of rows. Complex programming environment. Data storage options.

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Data Engineering Weekly #186

Data Engineering Weekly

[link] Murat: Understanding the Performance Implications of Storage-Disaggregated Databases The separation of storage and computing certainly brings a lot of flexibility in operating data stores. The author writes an overview of the performance implication of disaggregated systems compared to traditional monolithic databases.

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The Rise of Unstructured Data

Cloudera

Structured data can be defined as data that can be stored in relational databases, and unstructured data as everything else. Related to the neglect of data quality, it has been observed that much of the efforts in AI have been model-centric, that is, mostly devoted to developing and improving models , given fixed data sets.

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Toward a Data Mesh (part 2) : Architecture & Technologies

François Nguyen

To illustrate that, let’s take Cloud SQL from the Google Cloud Platform that is a “Fully managed relational database service for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server” It looks like this when you want to create an instance. You are starting to be an operation or technology centric data team.

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How to Become a Data Engineer in 2024?

Knowledge Hut

Data Engineers are skilled professionals who lay the foundation of databases and architecture. Using database tools, they create a robust architecture and later implement the process to develop the database from zero. Data engineers who focus on databases work with data warehouses and develop different table schemas.