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5 Things to do When Evaluating ELT/ETL Tools

Towards Data Science

A list to make evaluating ELT/ETL tools a bit less daunting Photo by Volodymyr Hryshchenko on Unsplash We’ve all been there: you’ve attended (many!) meetings with sales reps from all of the SaaS data integration tooling companies and are granted 14 day access to try their wares.

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The Rise of the Data Engineer

Maxime Beauchemin

The fact that ETL tools evolved to expose graphical interfaces seems like a detour in the history of data processing, and would certainly make for an interesting blog post of its own. Let’s highlight the fact that the abstractions exposed by traditional ETL tools are off-target.

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Sqoop vs. Flume Battle of the Hadoop ETL tools

ProjectPro

Apache Sqoop and Apache Flume are two popular open source etl tools for hadoop that help organizations overcome the challenges encountered in data ingestion. Table of Contents Hadoop ETL tools: Sqoop vs Flume-Comparison of the two Best Data Ingestion Tools What is Sqoop in Hadoop?

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An Introduction To Data And Analytics Engineering For Non-Programmers

Data Engineering Podcast

You can observe your pipelines with built in metadata search and column level lineage. Finally, if you have existing workflows in AbInitio, Informatica or other ETL formats that you want to move to the cloud, you can import them automatically into Prophecy making them run productively on Spark.

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Modern Data Engineering

Towards Data Science

") Apache Airflow , for example, is not an ETL tool per se but it helps to organize our ETL pipelines into a nice visualization of dependency graphs (DAGs) to describe the relationships between tasks. Typical Airflow architecture includes a schduler based on metadata, executors, workers and tasks. Image by author.

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Data Catalog - A Broken Promise

Data Engineering Weekly

Data Catalog as a passive web portal to display metadata requires significant rethinking to adopt modern data workflow, not just adding “modern” in its prefix. I know that is an expensive statement to make😊 To be fair, I’m a big fan of data catalogs, or metadata management , to be precise. What does that mean?

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From Big Data to Better Data: Ensuring Data Quality with Verity

Lyft Engineering

Check Result— The numeric measurement of data quality at a point in time, a boolean pass/fail value, and metadata about this run. Metadata  —  This includes a human-readable name, a universally unique identifier (UUID), ownership information, and tags (arbitrary semantic aggregations like ‘ML-feature’ or ‘business-reporting’).