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Top Data Lakes Interview Questions

Analytics Vidhya

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Introduction A data lake is a centralized repository for storing, processing, and securing massive amounts of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. Data Lakes are an important […].

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Key Components and Challenges of Data Lakes

Analytics Vidhya

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Introduction Today, Data Lake is most commonly used to describe an ecosystem of IT tools and processes (infrastructure as a service, software as a service, etc.) that work together to make processing and storing large volumes of data easy.

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An Overview of Using Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2

Analytics Vidhya

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Before seeing the practical implementation of the use case, let’s briefly introduce Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 and the Paramiko module. The post An Overview of Using Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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A Detailed Introduction on Data Lakes and Delta Lakes

Analytics Vidhya

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Introduction A data lake is a central data repository that allows us to store all of our structured and unstructured data on a large scale. The post A Detailed Introduction on Data Lakes and Delta Lakes appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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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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Build a serverless transactional data lake with Apache Iceberg, Amazon EMR Serverless, and Amazon Athena

AWS Big Data

Since the deluge of big data over a decade ago, many organizations have learned to build applications to process and analyze petabytes of data. Data lakes have served as a central repository to store structured and unstructured data at any scale and in various formats.

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Is Data Virtualization the Secret Behind Operationalizing Data Lakes?

Data Virtualization

Reading Time: 4 minutes The amount of expanding volume and variety of data originating from various sources are a massive challenge for businesses. In attempts to overcome their big data challenges, organizations are exploring data lakes as repositories where huge volumes and varieties of.