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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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Hadoop vs Spark: Main Big Data Tools Explained

AltexSoft

HDFS master-slave structure. A HDFS Master Node, called a NameNode , keeps metadata with critical information about system files (like their names, locations, number of data blocks in the file, etc.) and keeps track of storage capacity, a volume of data being transferred, etc. Data management and monitoring options.

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Implementing the Netflix Media Database

Netflix Tech

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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What Are the Best Data Modeling Methodologies & Processes for My Data Lake?

phData: Data Engineering

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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A Definitive Guide to Using BigQuery Efficiently

Towards Data Science

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. This comes with the advantages of reduction of redundancy, data integrity and consequently, less storage usage.

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Data Lakehouse: Concept, Key Features, and Architecture Layers

AltexSoft

In a nutshell, the lakehouse system leverages low-cost storage to keep large volumes of data in its raw formats just like data lakes. At the same time, it brings structure to data and empowers data management features similar to those in data warehouses by implementing the metadata layer on top of the store.

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What is Data Fabric: Architecture, Principles, Advantages, and Ways to Implement

AltexSoft

What is data fabric? 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., How data fabric works.