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From Schemaless Ingest to Smart Schema: Enabling SQL on Raw Data

Rockset

You have complex, semi-structured data—nested JSON or XML, for instance, containing mixed types, sparse fields, and null values. It's messy, you don't understand how it's structured, and new fields appear every so often. Without a known schema, it would be difficult to adequately frame the questions you want to ask of the data.

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Smart Schema: Enabling SQL Queries on Semi-Structured Data

Rockset

In this blog post, we show how Rockset’s Smart Schema feature lets developers use real-time SQL queries to extract meaningful insights from raw semi-structured data ingested without a predefined schema. This is particularly true given the nature of real-world data.

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Setting up Data Lake on GCP using Cloud Storage and BigQuery

Analytics Vidhya

The need for a data lake arises from the growing volume, variety, and velocity of data companies need to manage and analyze.

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What Is Data Wrangling? Examples, Benefits, Skills and Tools

Knowledge Hut

In today's data-driven world, where information reigns supreme, businesses rely on data to guide their decisions and strategies. However, the sheer volume and complexity of raw data from various sources can often resemble a chaotic jigsaw puzzle.

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Building a SQL Development Environment for Messy, Semi-Structured Data

Rockset

Despite the quantity and quality of editors and dashboards available in the SQL community, we realized that using SQL on raw data (e.g. Why ‘reinvent the wheel’ and create our own SQL development environment? nested JSON, Parquet, XML) was a novel concept to our users.

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Simplifying BI pipelines with Snowflake dynamic tables

ThoughtSpot

When created, Snowflake materializes query results into a persistent table structure that refreshes whenever underlying data changes. These tables provide a centralized location to host both your raw data and transformed datasets optimized for AI-powered analytics with ThoughtSpot.

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Data Vault on Snowflake: Feature Engineering and Business Vault

Snowflake

Collecting, cleaning, and organizing data into a coherent form for business users to consume are all standard data modeling and data engineering tasks for loading a data warehouse. Based on Tecton blog So is this similar to data engineering pipelines into a data lake/warehouse?