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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. It can store data in its native format and process any type of data, regardless of size.

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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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Multicloud data lake analytics with Amazon Athena

AWS Big Data

Many organizations operate data lakes spanning multiple cloud data stores. In these cases, you may want an integrated query layer to seamlessly run analytical queries across these diverse cloud stores and streamline your data analytics processes. This user can query data from any of the cloud stores.

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Use Apache Iceberg in your data lake with Amazon S3, AWS Glue, and Snowflake

AWS Big Data

Businesses are constantly evolving, and data leaders are challenged every day to meet new requirements. licensed, 100% open-source data table format that helps simplify data processing on large datasets stored in data lakes. This post is co-written with Andries Engelbrecht and Scott Teal from Snowflake.

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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. They are the same.

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Monitor data pipelines in a serverless data lake

AWS Big Data

The combination of a data lake in a serverless paradigm brings significant cost and performance benefits. By monitoring application logs, you can gain insights into job execution, troubleshoot issues promptly to ensure the overall health and reliability of data pipelines.

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Databricks Lakehouse Platform Streamlines Big Data Processing

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

Databricks is a data engineering and analytics cloud platform built on top of Apache Spark that processes and transforms huge volumes of data and offers data exploration capabilities through machine learning models. The platform supports streaming data, SQL queries, graph processing and machine learning.

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