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Top Data Lakes Interview Questions

Analytics Vidhya

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Introduction A data lake is a centralized repository for storing, processing, and securing massive amounts of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. It can store data in its native format and process any type of data, regardless of size.

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Key Components and Challenges of Data Lakes

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Today, Data Lake is most commonly used to describe an ecosystem of IT tools and processes (infrastructure as a service, software as a service, etc.) that work together to make processing and storing large volumes of data easy. An ecosystem consists of […].

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A Detailed Introduction on Data Lakes and Delta Lakes

Analytics Vidhya

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Introduction A data lake is a central data repository that allows us to store all of our structured and unstructured data on a large scale. The post A Detailed Introduction on Data Lakes and Delta Lakes appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Setting up Data Lake on GCP using Cloud Storage and BigQuery

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction A data lake is a centralized and scalable repository storing structured and unstructured data. 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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Use Apache Iceberg in your data lake with Amazon S3, AWS Glue, and Snowflake

AWS Big Data

They understand that a one-size-fits-all approach no longer works, and recognize the value in adopting scalable, flexible tools and open data formats to support interoperability in a modern data architecture to accelerate the delivery of new solutions.

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Orca Security’s journey to a petabyte-scale data lake with Apache Iceberg and AWS Analytics

AWS Big Data

With data becoming the driving force behind many industries today, having a modern data architecture is pivotal for organizations to be successful. In this post, we describe Orca’s journey building a transactional data lake using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Apache Iceberg, and AWS Analytics.

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Use External Data Platform to Improve Analytics

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

Access to external data can provide a competitive advantage. Our research shows that more than three-quarters (77%) of participants consider external data to be an important part of their machine learning (ML) efforts.

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