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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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Important Considerations When Migrating to a Data Lake

Smart Data Collective

Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 is based on Azure Blob storage and offers a suite of big data analytics features. If you don’t understand the concept, you might want to check out our previous article on the difference between data lakes and data warehouses. Determine your preparedness.

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Complexity Drives Costs: A Look Inside BYOD and Azure Data Lakes

Jet Global

OLAP reporting has traditionally relied on a data warehouse. Again, this entails creating a copy of the transactional data in the ERP system, but it also involves some preprocessing of data into so-called “cubes” so that you can retrieve aggregate totals and present them much faster. Option 3: Azure Data Lakes.

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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. Apache Iceberg integration is supported by AWS analytics services including Amazon EMR , Amazon Athena , and AWS Glue. AWS Glue 3.0

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Modernizing Data Analytics Architecture with the Denodo Platform on Azure

Data Virtualization

Reading Time: 2 minutes Today, many businesses are modernizing their on-premises data warehouses or cloud-based data lakes using Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics. Unfortunately, with data spread.

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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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What I Learned At Gartner Data & Analytics 2022

Timo Elliott

First, data is by default, and by definition, a liability , because it costs money and has risks associated with it. To turn data into an asset , you actually have to do something with it and drive the business. And the best way to do that is to embed data, analytics, and decisions into business workflows.