AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 3, 2023

A data lake is a centralized repository that you can use to store all your structured and unstructured data at any scale. You can store your data as-is, without having to first structure the data and then run different types of analytics for better business insights.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Data lakes and data warehouses are two of the most important data storage and management technologies in a modern data architecture. Data lakes store all of an organization’s data, regardless of its format or structure.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 20, 2023

With data becoming the driving force behind many industries today, having a modern data architecture is pivotal for organizations to be successful. In this post, we describe Orca’s journey building a transactional data lake using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Apache Iceberg, and AWS Analytics.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 20, 2023

In the first post of this series , we described how AWS Glue for Apache Spark works with Apache Hudi, Linux Foundation Delta Lake, and Apache Iceberg datasets tables using the native support of those data lake formats. Even without prior experience using Hudi, Delta Lake or Iceberg, you can easily achieve typical use cases.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 19, 2023

We show how to perform extract, transform, and load (ELT), an integration process focused on getting the raw data from a data lake into a staging layer to perform the modeling. Data can either be loaded when there is a new sale, or daily; this is where the inserted date or load date comes in handy.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 3, 2023

Additionally, the scale is significant because the multi-tenant data sources provide a continuous stream of testing activity, and our users require quick data refreshes as well as historical context for up to a decade due to compliance and regulatory demands. Finally, data integrity is of paramount importance.

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