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Differentiating Between Data Lakes and Data Warehouses

Smart Data Collective

The market for data warehouses is booming. 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. Data Warehouse.

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Snowflake: A New Blueprint for the Modern Data Warehouse

CDW Research Hub

Companies today are struggling under the weight of their legacy data warehouse. These old and inefficient systems were designed for a different era, when data was a side project and access to analytics was limited to the executive team. To do so, these companies need a modern data warehouse, such as Snowflake.

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Why optimize your warehouse with a data lakehouse strategy

IBM Big Data Hub

In a prior blog , we pointed out that warehouses, known for high-performance data processing for business intelligence, can quickly become expensive for new data and evolving workloads. To do so, Presto and Spark need to readily work with existing and modern data warehouse infrastructures.

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Fueling Enterprise Generative AI with Data: The Cornerstone of Differentiation

Cloudera

Structured and Unstructured Data: A Treasure Trove of Insights Enterprise data encompasses a wide array of types, falling mainly into two categories: structured and unstructured. Structured data is highly organized and formatted in a way that makes it easily searchable in databases and data warehouses.

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Understanding Structured and Unstructured Data

Sisense

We live in a world of data: there’s more of it than ever before, in a ceaselessly expanding array of forms and locations. Dealing with Data is your window into the ways Data Teams are tackling the challenges of this new world to help their companies and their customers thrive. Structured vs unstructured data.

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Databricks’ new data lakehouse aims at media, entertainment sector

CIO Business Intelligence

Now generally available, the M&E data lakehouse comes with industry use-case specific features that the company calls accelerators, including real-time personalization, said Steve Sobel, the company’s global head of communications, in a blog post. Features focus on media and entertainment firms.

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How to get powerful and actionable insights from any and all of your data, without delay

Cloudera

To address this, they focused on creating an experimentation-oriented culture, enabled thanks to a cloud-native platform supporting the full data lifecycle. This platform, including an ad-hoc capable data warehouse service with built-in, easy-to-use visualization, made it easy for anyone to jump in and start experimenting.