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Differentiating Between Data Lakes and Data Warehouses

Smart Data Collective

While there is a lot of discussion about the merits of data warehouses, not enough discussion centers around data lakes. We talked about enterprise data warehouses in the past, so let’s contrast them with data lakes. Both data warehouses and data lakes are used when storing big data.

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Data Lakes on Cloud & it’s Usage in Healthcare

BizAcuity

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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Implement slowly changing dimensions in a data lake using AWS Glue and Delta

AWS Big Data

As organizations across the globe are modernizing their data platforms with data lakes on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), handling SCDs in data lakes can be challenging.

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Data Swamp, Data Lake, Data Lakehouse: What to Know

Alation

Data Swamp vs Data Lake. When you imagine a lake, it’s likely an idyllic image of a tree-ringed body of reflective water amid singing birds and dabbling ducks. I’ll take the lake, thank you very much. Many organizations have built a data lake to solve their data storage, access, and utilization challenges.

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The Differences Between Data Warehouses and Data Lakes

Sisense

The amount of data being generated and stored every day has exploded. Companies of all kinds are sitting on stockpiles of data that could someday prove valuable. Until then though, they don’t necessarily want to spend the time and resources necessary to create a schema to house this data in a traditional data warehouse.

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Data Cataloging in the Data Lake: Alation + Kylo

Alation

By changing the cost structure of collecting data, it increased the volume of data stored in every organization. Additionally, Hadoop removed the requirement to model or structure data when writing to a physical store. You did not have to understand or prepare the data to get it into Hadoop, so people rarely did.

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Building and Evaluating GenAI Knowledge Management Systems using Ollama, Trulens and Cloudera

Cloudera

In modern enterprises, the exponential growth of data means organizational knowledge is distributed across multiple formats, ranging from structured data stores such as data warehouses to multi-format data stores like data lakes.