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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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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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Databricks’ new data lakehouse aims at media, entertainment sector

CIO Business Intelligence

“You can think that the general-purpose version of the Databricks Lakehouse as giving the organization 80% of what it needs to get to the productive use of its data to drive business insights and data science specific to the business. Features focus on media and entertainment firms.

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How gaming companies can use Amazon Redshift Serverless to build scalable analytical applications faster and easier

AWS Big Data

A data hub contains data at multiple levels of granularity and is often not integrated. It differs from a data lake by offering data that is pre-validated and standardized, allowing for simpler consumption by users. Data hubs and data lakes can coexist in an organization, complementing each other.

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How SumUp made digital analytics more accessible using AWS Glue

AWS Big Data

Unless, of course, the rest of their data also resides in the Google Cloud. In this post we showcase how we used AWS Glue to move siloed digital analytics data, with inconsistent arrival times, to AWS S3 (our Data Lake) and our central data warehouse (DWH), Snowflake. It consists of full-day and intraday tables.

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Implement slowly changing dimensions in a data lake using AWS Glue and Delta

AWS Big Data

As organizations across the globe are modernizing their data platforms with data lakes on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), handling SCDs in data lakes can be challenging.

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How GamesKraft uses Amazon Redshift data sharing to support growing analytics workloads

AWS Big Data

Amazon Redshift is a fully managed data warehousing service that offers both provisioned and serverless options, making it more efficient to run and scale analytics without having to manage your data warehouse. Additionally, data is extracted from vendor APIs that includes data related to product, marketing, and customer experience.