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Metadata-Driven Data Warehouses are Ideal

TDAN

A metadata-driven data warehouse (MDW) offers a modern approach that is designed to make EDW development much more simplified and faster. It makes use of metadata (data about your data) as its foundation and combines data modeling and ETL functionalities to build data warehouses.

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Understanding the Differences Between Data Lakes and Data Warehouses

Smart Data Collective

Data lakes and data warehouses are probably the two most widely used structures for storing data. Data Warehouses and Data Lakes in a Nutshell. A data warehouse is used as a central storage space for large amounts of structured data coming from various sources. Key Differences.

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The Data Warehouse is Dead, Long Live the Data Warehouse, Part I

Data Virtualization

The post The Data Warehouse is Dead, Long Live the Data Warehouse, Part I appeared first on Data Virtualization blog - Data Integration and Modern Data Management Articles, Analysis and Information. In times of potentially troublesome change, the apparent paradox and inner poetry of these.

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Salesforce debuts Zero Copy Partner Network to ease data integration

CIO Business Intelligence

Currently, a handful of startups offer “reverse” extract, transform, and load (ETL), in which they copy data from a customer’s data warehouse or data platform back into systems of engagement where business users do their work. It works in Salesforce just like any other native Salesforce data,” Carlson said.

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Cloudera Data Warehouse outperforms Azure HDInsight in TPC-DS benchmark

Cloudera

Performance is one of the key, if not the most important deciding criterion, in choosing a Cloud Data Warehouse service. In today’s fast changing world, enterprises have to make data driven decisions quickly and for that they rely heavily on their data warehouse service. . Cloudera Data Warehouse vs HDInsight.

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Data Governance and Metadata Management: You Can’t Have One Without the Other

erwin

When an organization’s data governance and metadata management programs work in harmony, then everything is easier. Data governance is a complex but critical practice. There’s always more data to handle, much of it unstructured; more data sources, like IoT, more points of integration, and more regulatory compliance requirements.

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Metadata, the Neglected Stepchild of IT

Data Virtualization

Reading Time: 3 minutes While cleaning up our archive recently, I found an old article published in 1976 about data dictionary/directory systems (DD/DS). Nowadays, we no longer use the term DD/DS, but “data catalog” or simply “metadata system”. It was written by L.