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What is a data architect? Skills, salaries, and how to become a data framework master

CIO Business Intelligence

Established and emerging data technologies: Data architects need to understand established data management and reporting technologies, and have some knowledge of columnar and NoSQL databases, predictive analytics, data visualization, and unstructured data. Are data architects in demand?

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Use Apache Iceberg in a data lake to support incremental data processing

AWS Big Data

Apache Iceberg is an open table format for very large analytic datasets, which captures metadata information on the state of datasets as they evolve and change over time. Iceberg has become very popular for its support for ACID transactions in data lakes and features like schema and partition evolution, time travel, and rollback.

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The Future Is Hybrid Data, Embrace It

Cloudera

In the past decade, the amount of structured data created, captured, copied, and consumed globally has grown from less than 1 ZB in 2011 to nearly 14 ZB in 2020. Impressive, but dwarfed by the amount of unstructured data, cloud data, and machine data – another 50 ZB.

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The Future Is Hybrid Data, Embrace It

CIO Business Intelligence

In the past decade, the amount of structured data created, captured, copied, and consumed globally has grown from less than 1 ZB in 2011 to nearly 14 ZB in 2020. Impressive, but dwarfed by the amount of unstructured data, cloud data, and machine data – another 50 ZB. But this is not your grandfather’s big data.

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Demystifying Modern Data Platforms

Cloudera

July brings summer vacations, holiday gatherings, and for the first time in two years, the return of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Chief Data Officer symposium as an in-person event. A key area of focus for the symposium this year was the design and deployment of modern data platforms.

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Optimize data layout by bucketing with Amazon Athena and AWS Glue to accelerate downstream queries

AWS Big Data

In the era of data, organizations are increasingly using data lakes to store and analyze vast amounts of structured and unstructured data. Data lakes provide a centralized repository for data from various sources, enabling organizations to unlock valuable insights and drive data-driven decision-making.

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Backtesting index rebalancing arbitrage with Amazon EMR and Apache Iceberg

AWS Big Data

Terminology Let’s first discuss some of the terminology used in this post: Research data lake on Amazon S3 – A data lake is a large, centralized repository that allows you to manage all your structured and unstructured data at any scale. One of the key features of Iceberg is its support for scalable data versioning.