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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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Data science vs data analytics: Unpacking the differences

IBM Big Data Hub

Though you may encounter the terms “data science” and “data analytics” being used interchangeably in conversations or online, they refer to two distinctly different concepts. Meanwhile, data analytics is the act of examining datasets to extract value and find answers to specific questions.

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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

To do so, Presto and Spark need to readily work with existing and modern data warehouse infrastructures. Now, let’s chat about why data warehouse optimization is a key value of a data lakehouse strategy. To effectively use raw data, it often needs to be curated within a data warehouse.

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Data governance in the age of generative AI

AWS Big Data

First, many LLM use cases rely on enterprise knowledge that needs to be drawn from unstructured data such as documents, transcripts, and images, in addition to structured data from data warehouses. The user permissions are evaluated using AWS Lake Formation to filter the relevant data.

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How Will The Cloud Impact Data Warehousing Technologies?

Smart Data Collective

Dating back to the 1970s, the data warehousing market emerged when computer scientist Bill Inmon first coined the term ‘data warehouse’. Created as on-premise servers, the early data warehouses were built to perform on just a gigabyte scale.

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Understanding Structured and Unstructured Data

Sisense

Read on to explore more about structured vs unstructured data, why the difference between structured and unstructured data matters, and how cloud data warehouses deal with them both. Structured vs unstructured data. However, both types of data play an important role in data analysis.