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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. The AWS Glue Data Catalog holds the metadata for Amazon S3 and GCS data.

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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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Apache Iceberg optimization: Solving the small files problem in Amazon EMR

AWS Big Data

In our previous post Improve operational efficiencies of Apache Iceberg tables built on Amazon S3 data lakes , we discussed how you can implement solutions to improve operational efficiencies of your Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data lake that is using the Apache Iceberg open table format and running on the Amazon EMR big data platform.

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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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Use Apache Iceberg in a data lake to support incremental data processing

AWS Big Data

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. and later supports the Apache Iceberg framework for data lakes. AWS Glue 3.0 The following diagram illustrates the solution architecture.

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Optimize data layout by bucketing with Amazon Athena and AWS Glue to accelerate downstream queries

AWS Big Data

In the era of data, organizations are increasingly using data lakes to store and analyze vast amounts of structured and unstructured data. Data lakes provide a centralized repository for data from various sources, enabling organizations to unlock valuable insights and drive data-driven decision-making.

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Enable business users to analyze large datasets in your data lake with Amazon QuickSight

AWS Big Data

Events and many other security data types are stored in Imperva’s Threat Research Multi-Region data lake. Imperva harnesses data to improve their business outcomes. As part of their solution, they are using Amazon QuickSight to unlock insights from their data.