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

AWS Big Data

Apache Iceberg is an open table format for very large analytic datasets, which captures metadata information on the state of datasets as they evolve and change over time. 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.

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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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Optimization Strategies for Iceberg Tables

Cloudera

Introduction Apache Iceberg has recently grown in popularity because it adds data warehouse-like capabilities to your data lake making it easier to analyze all your data — structured and unstructured. Expiring snapshots is a relatively cheap operation and uses metadata to determine newly unreachable files.

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Efficiently crawl your data lake and improve data access with an AWS Glue crawler using partition indexes

AWS Big Data

In today’s world, customers manage vast amounts of data in their Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data lakes, which requires convoluted data pipelines to continuously understand the changes in the data layout and make them available to consuming systems. Review and update the crawler settings.

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Enforce fine-grained access control on Open Table Formats via Amazon EMR integrated with AWS Lake Formation

AWS Big Data

With Amazon EMR 6.15, we launched AWS Lake Formation based fine-grained access controls (FGAC) on Open Table Formats (OTFs), including Apache Hudi, Apache Iceberg, and Delta lake. Many large enterprise companies seek to use their transactional data lake to gain insights and improve decision-making.

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Enhance query performance using AWS Glue Data Catalog column-level statistics

AWS Big Data

Today, we’re making available a new capability of AWS Glue Data Catalog that allows generating column-level statistics for AWS Glue tables. These statistics are now integrated with the cost-based optimizers (CBO) of Amazon Athena and Amazon Redshift Spectrum , resulting in improved query performance and potential cost savings.