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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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7 Key Benefits of Proper Data Lake Ingestion

Smart Data Collective

Perhaps one of the biggest perks is scalability, which simply means that with good data lake ingestion a small business can begin to handle bigger data numbers. The reality is businesses that are collecting data will likely be doing so on several levels. Data Analytics Simplified. Proper Scalability.

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Interview with: Sankar Narayanan, Chief Practice Officer at Fractal Analytics

Corinium

For instance, for a variety of reasons, in the short term, CDAOS are challenged with quantifying the benefits of analytics’ investments. Some of the work is very foundational, such as building an enterprise data lake and migrating it to the cloud, which enables other more direct value-added activities such as self-service.

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10 Things AWS Can Do for Your SaaS Company

Smart Data Collective

Data storage databases. Your SaaS company can store and protect any amount of data using Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), which is ideal for data lakes, cloud-native applications, and mobile apps. AWS also offers developers the technology to develop smart apps using machine learning and complex algorithms.

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Azure Data Sources for Data Science and Machine Learning

Jen Stirrup

Organizations need to recast storing their data. It is more than just some giant USB stick in the sky that’s going to store all of the data. It has a lot of services that you can use, such as Big Data analytics. You can also use Azure Data Lake storage as well, which is optimized for high-performance analytics.

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10 everyday machine learning use cases

IBM Big Data Hub

Machine learning in marketing and sales According to Forbes , marketing and sales teams prioritize AI and ML more than any other enterprise department. Marketers use ML for lead generation, data analytics, online searches and search engine optimization (SEO). The platform has three powerful components: the watsonx.ai

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Build a semantic search engine for tabular columns with Transformers and Amazon OpenSearch Service

AWS Big Data

Finding similar columns in a data lake has important applications in data cleaning and annotation, schema matching, data discovery, and analytics across multiple data sources. Transform CSV to Parquet Raw CSV files are converted to Parquet data format with AWS Glue.