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Differentiating Between Data Lakes and Data Warehouses

Smart Data Collective

The market for data warehouses is booming. 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. Data Warehouse.

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Data science vs data analytics: Unpacking the differences

IBM Big Data Hub

Though you may encounter the terms “data science” and “data analytics” being used interchangeably in conversations or online, they refer to two distinctly different concepts. Meanwhile, data analytics is the act of examining datasets to extract value and find answers to specific questions.

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Why optimize your warehouse with a data lakehouse strategy

IBM Big Data Hub

In a prior blog , we pointed out that warehouses, known for high-performance data processing for business intelligence, can quickly become expensive for new data and evolving workloads. To do so, Presto and Spark need to readily work with existing and modern data warehouse infrastructures.

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Snowflake: A New Blueprint for the Modern Data Warehouse

CDW Research Hub

Companies today are struggling under the weight of their legacy data warehouse. These old and inefficient systems were designed for a different era, when data was a side project and access to analytics was limited to the executive team. To do so, these companies need a modern data warehouse, such as Snowflake.

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Understanding Structured and Unstructured Data

Sisense

We live in a world of data: there’s more of it than ever before, in a ceaselessly expanding array of forms and locations. Dealing with Data is your window into the ways Data Teams are tackling the challenges of this new world to help their companies and their customers thrive. Structured vs unstructured data.

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Successfully conduct a proof of concept in Amazon Redshift

AWS Big Data

Amazon Redshift is a fast, scalable, and fully managed cloud data warehouse that allows you to process and run your complex SQL analytics workloads on structured and semi-structured data. The first diagram illustrates the architecture before using data sharing.

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Unleash Fast Data Insights With Snowflake and ThoughtSpot

CDW Research Hub

Many organizations move from a traditional data warehouse to a hybrid or cloud-based data warehouse to help alleviate their struggles with rapidly expanding data, new users and use cases, and a growing number of diverse tools and applications.