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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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Diving Deeper into the Data Lake

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

A data lake is a centralized repository designed to house big data in structured, semi-structured and unstructured form. I have been covering the data lake topic for several years and encourage you to check out an earlier perspective called Data Lakes: Safe Way to Swim in Big Data?

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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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A Comprehensive Guide to Data Lake vs. Data Warehouse

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction In this constantly growing era, the volume of data is increasing rapidly, and tons of data points are produced every second. Now, businesses are looking for different types of data storage to store and manage their data effectively.

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Data Lakes Meet Data Warehouses

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

In this analyst perspective, Dave Menninger takes a look at data lakes. He explains the term “data lake,” describes common use cases and shares his views on some of the latest market trends. He explores the relationship between data warehouses and data lakes and share some of Ventana Research’s findings on the subject.

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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 only query data from ADLS.

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

AWS Big Data

licensed, 100% open-source data table format that helps simplify data processing on large datasets stored in data lakes. Data engineers use Apache Iceberg because it’s fast, efficient, and reliable at any scale and keeps records of how datasets change over time.