Smart Data Collective

AUGUST 21, 2022

Big Data and AI are, perhaps, the most important business technologies of the century, and they are intrinsically related. But what is the state of AI and Big Data, right now? But what is the state of AI and Big Data, right now? Big data and AI have what is referred to as a synergistic relationship.

Big Data 86

Big Data Cost-Benefit Sales Snapshot 86

AWS Big Data

APRIL 3, 2024

Snowflake integrates with AWS Glue Data Catalog to access the Iceberg table catalog and the files on Amazon S3 for analytical queries. This greatly improves performance and compute cost in comparison to external tables on Snowflake , because the additional metadata improves pruning in query plans.

Data Lake 96

Data Lake Snapshot Metadata Data Architecture 96

AWS Big Data

MARCH 2, 2023

In early 2022, AWS announced general availability of Athena ACID transactions, powered by Apache Iceberg. There is an increased need for data lakes to support database like features such as ACID transactions, record-level updates and deletes, time travel, and rollback. The snapshot points to the manifest list.

Data Lake 120

Data Lake Data Processing Metadata Snapshot 120

AWS Big Data

JUNE 9, 2023

A modern data architecture enables companies to ingest virtually any type of data through automated pipelines into a data lake, which provides highly durable and cost-effective object storage at petabyte or exabyte scale.

Data Lake 115

Data Lake Metadata Optimization Statistics 115

AWS Big Data

MAY 30, 2023

Customers have been using data warehousing solutions to perform their traditional analytics tasks. Recently, data lakes have gained lot of traction to become the foundation for analytical solutions, because they come with benefits such as scalability, fault tolerance, and support for structured, semi-structured, and unstructured datasets.

Data Lake 83

Data Lake Data Analytics Analytics Data Processing 83

AWS Big Data

JUNE 21, 2023

In traditional databases, we would model such applications using a normalized data model (entity-relation diagram). A key pillar of AWS’s modern data strategy is the use of purpose-built data stores for specific use cases to achieve performance, cost, and scale. These types of queries are suited for a data warehouse.

Data Warehouse 82

Data Warehouse Data Lake OLAP Cost-Benefit 82