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Use AWS Glue ETL to perform merge, partition evolution, and schema evolution on Apache Iceberg

AWS Big Data

As enterprises collect increasing amounts of data from various sources, the structure and organization of that data often need to change over time to meet evolving analytical needs. Schema evolution enables adding, deleting, renaming, or modifying columns without needing to rewrite existing data.

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Speed up queries with the cost-based optimizer in Amazon Athena

AWS Big Data

Athena provides a simplified, flexible way to analyze petabytes of data where it lives. You can analyze data or build applications from an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data lake and 30 data sources, including on-premises data sources or other cloud systems using SQL or Python.

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Data Virtualization is the CDO’s Best Friend

Data Virtualization

According to CIO magazine, the first chief data officer (CDO) was employed at Capital One in 2002, and since then the role has become widespread, driven by the recent explosion of big data. The CDO role has a variety of.

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How The Cloud Made ‘Data-Driven Culture’ Possible | Part 1

BizAcuity

2002: Microsoft launches the.NET initiative. Google launches BigQuery, its own data warehousing tool and Microsoft introduces Azure SQL Data Warehouse and Azure Data Lake Store. Data management solutions will need to keep up with the data demands of the next few years. More on Kubernetes soon.

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Why Easier Governance Is Superior Governance

Alation

Ventana found that the most time-consuming part of an organization’s analytic efforts is accessing and preparing data; this is the case for more than one-half (55%) of respondents. 1 Data catalogs can significantly reduce this burden by making it easier for analysts to find and access relevant information. Curious to learn more?