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Data Warehouses: Basic Concepts for data enthusiasts

Analytics Vidhya

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Introduction The purpose of a data warehouse is to combine multiple sources to generate different insights that help companies make better decisions and forecasting. It consists of historical and commutative data from single or multiple sources.

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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.

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Open Data Lakehouse powered by Iceberg for all your Data Warehouse needs

Cloudera

In this blog, we will share with you in detail how Cloudera integrates core compute engines including Apache Hive and Apache Impala in Cloudera Data Warehouse with Iceberg. We will publish follow up blogs for other data services. Try Cloudera Data Warehouse (CDW) by signing up for a 60 day trial , or test drive CDP.

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Cloudera Data Warehouse Demonstrates Best-in-Class Cloud-Native Price-Performance

Cloudera

Cloud data warehouses allow users to run analytic workloads with greater agility, better isolation and scale, and lower administrative overhead than ever before. The results demonstrate superior price performance of Cloudera Data Warehouse on the full set of 99 queries from the TPC-DS benchmark. Introduction.

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A Cost-Effective Data Warehouse Solution in CDP Public Cloud – Part1

Cloudera

Today’s customers have a growing need for a faster end to end data ingestion to meet the expected speed of insights and overall business demand. This ‘need for speed’ drives a rethink on building a more modern data warehouse solution, one that balances speed with platform cost management, performance, and reliability.

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Governing data in relational databases using Amazon DataZone

AWS Big Data

It also makes it easier for engineers, data scientists, product managers, analysts, and business users to access data throughout an organization to discover, use, and collaborate to derive data-driven insights. The producer also needs to manage and publish the data asset so it’s discoverable throughout the organization.

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Unlock data across organizational boundaries using Amazon DataZone – now generally available 

AWS Big Data

An Amazon DataZone domain contains an associated business data catalog for search and discovery, a set of metadata definitions to decorate the data assets that are used for discovery purposes, and data projects with integrated analytics and ML tools for users and groups to consume and publish data assets.

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