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Data Lake or Data Warehouse- Which is Better?

Analytics Vidhya

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Introduction Data is defined as information that has been organized in a meaningful way. We can use it to represent facts, figures, and other information that we can use to make decisions. The post Data Lake or Data Warehouse- Which is Better?

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Diving Deeper into the Data Lake

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

A data lake is a centralized repository designed to house big data in structured, semi-structured and unstructured form. I have been covering the data lake topic for several years and encourage you to check out an earlier perspective called Data Lakes: Safe Way to Swim in Big Data?

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Multicloud data lake analytics with Amazon Athena

AWS Big Data

Many organizations operate data lakes spanning multiple cloud data stores. In these cases, you may want an integrated query layer to seamlessly run analytical queries across these diverse cloud stores and streamline your data analytics processes. Upload the data file to the S3 bucket created by the CloudFormation stack.

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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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Checklist Report: Preparing for the Next-Generation Cloud Data Architecture

Data architectures to support reporting, business intelligence, and analytics have evolved dramatically over the past 10 years. Download this TDWI Checklist report to understand: How your organization can make this transition to a modernized data architecture.

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Data Warehouses vs. Data Lakes vs. Data Marts: Need Help Deciding?

KDnuggets

A comparative overview of data warehouses, data lakes, and data marts to help you make informed decisions on data storage solutions for your data architecture.

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Why Your Data Lake Needs Bad Data

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

Everyone talks about data quality, as they should. Our research shows that improving the quality of information is the top benefit of data preparation activities. Data quality efforts are focused on clean data. Yes, clean data is important. but so is bad data.

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