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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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Data Governance in a Data Mesh or Data Fabric Architecture

Data Virtualization

Reading Time: 2 minutes Data mesh is a modern, distributed data architecture in which different domain based data products are owned by different groups within an organization. And data fabric is a self-service data layer that is supported in an orchestrated fashion to serve.

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Data Mesh vs Data Fabric: Understanding the Key Differences

Data Virtualization

Reading Time: 2 minutes In recent years, there has been a growing interest in data architecture. One of the key considerations is how best to handle data, and this is where data mesh and data fabric come into play. But what are the key.

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Data Strategies for Getting Greater Business Value from Distributed Data

Data Virtualization

Reading Time: 11 minutes The post Data Strategies for Getting Greater Business Value from Distributed Data appeared first on Data Management Blog - Data Integration and Modern Data Management Articles, Analysis and Information.

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Choosing a Data Catalog: Data Map or Data Delivery App?

Data Virtualization

The idea seems, on the face of it, easy to understand: a data catalog is simply a centralized inventory of the data assets within an organization. Data catalogs also seek to be the. The post Choosing a Data Catalog: Data Map or Data Delivery App?

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Knowledge Graphs vs. Property Graphs – Part 1

TDAN

Flexibility is one strong driver: heterogeneous data, integrating new data sources, and analytics all require flexibility. We are in the era of graphs. Graphs are hot. Graphs deliver it in spades. Over the last few years, a number of new graph databases came to market. As we start the next decade, dare we say […].

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What Is a Data Fabric and How Does a Data Catalog Support It?

Alation

As a reminder, here’s Gartner’s definition of data fabric: “A design concept that serves as an integrated layer (fabric) of data and connecting processes. In this blog, we will focus on the “integrated layer” part of this definition by examining each of the key layers of a comprehensive data fabric in more detail.