AWS Big Data

JULY 20, 2023

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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AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

With data volumes exhibiting a double-digit percentage growth rate year on year and the COVID pandemic disrupting global logistics in 2021, it became more critical to scale and generate near-real-time data. This introduces the need for both polling and pushing the data to access and analyze in near-real time.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Apache Hudi is an open table format that brings database and data warehouse capabilities to data lakes. Apache Hudi helps data engineers manage complex challenges, such as managing continuously evolving datasets with transactions while maintaining query performance. For CoW tables, queries see the latest data committed.

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Data Lake Snapshot Metadata Optimization 93

AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Your applications can seamlessly read from and write to your Amazon Redshift data warehouse while maintaining optimal performance and transactional consistency. Additionally, you’ll benefit from performance improvements through pushdown optimizations, further enhancing the efficiency of your operations. options(**read_config).option("query",

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Data Processing Data Lake Data Warehouse Optimization 93

Cloudera

MARCH 5, 2024

With built-in features like time travel, schema evolution, and streamlined data discovery, Iceberg empowers data teams to enhance data lake management while upholding data integrity. Zero Downtime Upgrades Beyond improvements to Iceberg and Ozone, the platform now boasts Zero Downtime Upgrades (ZDU).

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

We have seen a strong customer demand to expand its scope to cloud-based data lakes because data lakes are increasingly the enterprise solution for large-scale data initiatives due to their power and capabilities. The team uses dbt-glue to build a transformed gold model optimized for business intelligence (BI).

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 3, 2023

Additionally, the scale is significant because the multi-tenant data sources provide a continuous stream of testing activity, and our users require quick data refreshes as well as historical context for up to a decade due to compliance and regulatory demands. Finally, data integrity is of paramount importance.

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