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Look Out: Computer Vision in AI is Coming Into Sight

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

Unstructured data has been a significant factor in data lakes and analytics for some time. Twelve years ago, nearly a third of enterprises were working with large amounts of unstructured data. As I’ve pointed out previously , unstructured data is really a misnomer.

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Migrate an existing data lake to a transactional data lake using Apache Iceberg

AWS Big Data

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

Jet Global

It’s important to look beyond the surface, however, because there are some critical architectural changes that could dramatically affect how end-users get information out of the system. Let’s start with some background information. The Data Security Problem: How We Got Here. Option 3: Azure Data Lakes.

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Choosing an open table format for your transactional data lake on AWS

AWS Big Data

A modern data architecture enables companies to ingest virtually any type of data through automated pipelines into a data lake, which provides highly durable and cost-effective object storage at petabyte or exabyte scale.

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Data Lakes on Cloud & it’s Usage in Healthcare

BizAcuity

Data lakes are centralized repositories that can store all structured and unstructured data at any desired scale. The power of the data lake lies in the fact that it often is a cost-effective way to store data. Deploying Data Lakes in the cloud. Best practices to build a Data Lake.

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