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Migrate an existing data lake to a transactional data lake using Apache Iceberg

AWS Big Data

A data lake is a centralized repository that you can use to store all your structured and unstructured data at any scale. You can store your data as-is, without having to first structure the data and then run different types of analytics for better business insights.

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Differentiating Between Data Lakes and Data Warehouses

Smart Data Collective

While there is a lot of discussion about the merits of data warehouses, not enough discussion centers around data lakes. We talked about enterprise data warehouses in the past, so let’s contrast them with data lakes. Both data warehouses and data lakes are used when storing big data.

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Orca Security’s journey to a petabyte-scale data lake with Apache Iceberg and AWS Analytics

AWS Big Data

With data becoming the driving force behind many industries today, having a modern data architecture is pivotal for organizations to be successful. In this post, we describe Orca’s journey building a transactional data lake using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Apache Iceberg, and AWS Analytics.

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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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Data Lakes on Cloud & it’s Usage in Healthcare

BizAcuity

Data lakes are centralized repositories that can store all structured and unstructured data at any desired scale. The power of the data lake lies in the fact that it often is a cost-effective way to store data. Deploying Data Lakes in the cloud. Best practices to build a Data Lake.

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Data Modeling 301 for the cloud: data lake and NoSQL data modeling and design

erwin

This blog is based upon a recent webcast that can be viewed here. For NoSQL, data lakes, and data lake houses—data modeling of both structured and unstructured data is somewhat novel and thorny. As with the part 1 and part 2 of this data modeling blog series, the cloud is not nirvana.

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The Differences Between Data Warehouses and Data Lakes

Sisense

The amount of data being generated and stored every day has exploded. Companies of all kinds are sitting on stockpiles of data that could someday prove valuable. Until then though, they don’t necessarily want to spend the time and resources necessary to create a schema to house this data in a traditional data warehouse.