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Migrate an existing data lake to a transactional data lake using Apache Iceberg

AWS Big Data

A data lake is a centralized repository that you can use to store all your structured and unstructured data at any scale. You can store your data as-is, without having to first structure the data and then run different types of analytics for better business insights.

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Understanding the Differences Between Data Lakes and Data Warehouses

Smart Data Collective

Data lakes and data warehouses are probably the two most widely used structures for storing data. Data Warehouses and Data Lakes in a Nutshell. A data warehouse is used as a central storage space for large amounts of structured data coming from various sources. Data Type and Processing.

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Use Apache Iceberg in a data lake to support incremental data processing

AWS Big Data

Apache Iceberg is an open table format for very large analytic datasets, which captures metadata information on the state of datasets as they evolve and change over time. Iceberg has become very popular for its support for ACID transactions in data lakes and features like schema and partition evolution, time travel, and rollback.

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Choosing an open table format for your transactional data lake on AWS

AWS Big Data

A modern data architecture enables companies to ingest virtually any type of data through automated pipelines into a data lake, which provides highly durable and cost-effective object storage at petabyte or exabyte scale.

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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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Build a serverless transactional data lake with Apache Iceberg, Amazon EMR Serverless, and Amazon Athena

AWS Big Data

Since the deluge of big data over a decade ago, many organizations have learned to build applications to process and analyze petabytes of data. Data lakes have served as a central repository to store structured and unstructured data at any scale and in various formats.

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Data Lakes on Cloud & it’s Usage in Healthcare

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Data lakes are centralized repositories that can store all structured and unstructured data at any desired scale. The power of the data lake lies in the fact that it often is a cost-effective way to store data. Deploying Data Lakes in the cloud. Best practices to build a Data Lake.

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