BizAcuity

MARCH 29, 2019

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. The power of the data lake lies in the fact that it often is a cost-effective way to store data.

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AWS Big Data

JANUARY 24, 2024

AWS-powered data lakes, supported by the unmatched availability of Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), can handle the scale, agility, and flexibility required to combine different data and analytics approaches. For more information, refer to Amazon S3: Allows read and write access to objects in an S3 Bucket.

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Ontotext

APRIL 10, 2024

In most enterprises data teams lack a data map and data asset inventory and are often unaware of data that exists across the organization, its associated profile, quality and associated metadata. Teams can’t access data to build their business use cases. For example, a product data tag is basic metadata.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 7, 2024

At the same time, they need to optimize operational costs to unlock the value of this data for timely insights and do so with a consistent performance. With this massive data growth, data proliferation across your data stores, data warehouse, and data lakes can become equally challenging.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In our previous post Improve operational efficiencies of Apache Iceberg tables built on Amazon S3 data lakes , we discussed how you can implement solutions to improve operational efficiencies of your Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data lake that is using the Apache Iceberg open table format and running on the Amazon EMR big data platform.

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AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

To provide a response that includes the enterprise context, each user prompt needs to be augmented with a combination of insights from structured data from the data warehouse and unstructured data from the enterprise data lake. It also monitors bias drift in your model’s predictions and feature attribution.

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AWS Big Data

AUGUST 16, 2023

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. Iceberg captures metadata information on the state of datasets as they evolve and change over time. For more details, refer to Creating Apache Iceberg tables.

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AWS Big Data

AUGUST 3, 2023

Today’s modern data lakes span multiple accounts, AWS Regions, and lines of business in organizations. It’s important that their data solution gives them the ability to share and access data securely and safely across Regions. A resource link is a Data Catalog object that is a link to a database or table.

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AWS Big Data

JANUARY 17, 2024

With Amazon EMR 6.15, we launched AWS Lake Formation based fine-grained access controls (FGAC) on Open Table Formats (OTFs), including Apache Hudi, Apache Iceberg, and Delta lake. Many large enterprise companies seek to use their transactional data lake to gain insights and improve decision-making.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 7, 2023

Flexible and easy to use – The solutions should provide less restrictive, easy-to-access, and ready-to-use 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.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 20, 2023

The Hive metastore is a repository of metadata about the SQL tables, such as database names, table names, schema, serialization and deserialization information, data location, and partition details of each table. Apache Hive, Apache Spark, Presto, and Trino can all use a Hive Metastore to retrieve metadata to run queries.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Data architect Armando Vázquez identifies eight common types of data architects: Enterprise data architect: These data architects oversee an organization’s overall data architecture, defining data architecture strategy and designing and implementing architectures.

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AWS Big Data

JANUARY 31, 2023

We have collected some of the key talks and solutions on data governance, data mesh, and modern data architecture published and presented in AWS re:Invent 2022, and a few data lake solutions built by customers and AWS Partners for easy reference.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 25, 2024

To learn more about RAG, refer to Question answering using Retrieval Augmented Generation with foundation models in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. A RAG-based generative AI application can only produce generic responses based on its training data and the relevant documents in the knowledge base.

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AWS Big Data

APRIL 19, 2023

We split the solution into two primary components: generating Spark job metadata and running the SQL on Amazon EMR. The first component (metadata setup) consumes existing Hive job configurations and generates metadata such as number of parameters, number of actions (steps), and file formats. sql_path SQL file name.

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Metadata Testing Data Lake Consulting 79

AWS Big Data

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

A modern data architecture is an evolutionary architecture pattern designed to integrate a data lake, data warehouse, and purpose-built stores with a unified governance model. The company wanted the ability to continue processing operational data in the secondary Region in the rare event of primary Region failure.

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Cloudera

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Introduction Apache Iceberg has recently grown in popularity because it adds data warehouse-like capabilities to your data lake making it easier to analyze all your data — structured and unstructured. Expiring snapshots is a relatively cheap operation and uses metadata to determine newly unreachable files.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 27, 2023

Developers, data scientists, and analysts can work across databases, data warehouses, and data lakes to build reporting and dashboarding applications, perform real-time analytics, share and collaborate on data, and even build and train machine learning (ML) models with Redshift Serverless. Choose Save changes.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Data lakes are designed for storing vast amounts of raw, unstructured, or semi-structured data at a low cost, and organizations share those datasets across multiple departments and teams. The queries on these large datasets read vast amounts of data and can perform complex join operations on multiple datasets.

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AWS Big Data

AUGUST 31, 2023

Amazon Redshift enables you to directly access data stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) using SQL queries and join data across your data warehouse and data lake. With Amazon Redshift, you can query the data in your S3 data lake using a central AWS Glue metastore from your Redshift data warehouse.

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AWS Big Data

APRIL 8, 2024

Prior to this integration, you had to complete the following steps before Amazon DataZone could treat the published Data Catalog table as a managed asset: Identity the Amazon S3 location associated with Data Catalog table. Publish the table metadata to the Amazon DataZone business data catalog.

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Finance Sales Publishing Metadata 77

AWS Big Data

APRIL 25, 2024

In the era of data, organizations are increasingly using data lakes to store and analyze vast amounts of structured and unstructured data. Data lakes provide a centralized repository for data from various sources, enabling organizations to unlock valuable insights and drive data-driven decision-making.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Data curation is important in today’s world of data sharing and self-service analytics, but I think it is a frequently misused term. When speaking and consulting, I often hear people refer to data in their data lakes and data warehouses as curated data, believing that it is curated because it is stored as shareable data.

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Metadata Data Warehouse Data Lake Data Governance 52

IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2023

AI governance refers to the practice of directing, managing and monitoring an organization’s AI activities. It includes processes that trace and document the origin of data, models and associated metadata and pipelines for audits. Capture and document model metadata for report generation.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Athena provides a simplified, flexible way to analyze petabytes of data where it lives. You can analyze data or build applications from an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data lake and 30 data sources, including on-premises data sources or other cloud systems using SQL or Python.

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Optimization Statistics Metadata Data Lake 112

AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Amazon Redshift is a popular cloud data warehouse, offering a fully managed cloud-based service that seamlessly integrates with an organization’s Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data lake, real-time streams, machine learning (ML) workflows, transactional workflows, and much more—all while providing up to 7.9x

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AWS Big Data

JANUARY 8, 2024

For security, Kinesis Data Streams provide server-side encryption so you can meet strict data management requirements by encrypting your data at rest and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) interface endpoints to keep traffic between your Amazon VPC and Kinesis Data Streams private.

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Alation

APRIL 18, 2023

Gartner defines data profiling as: A technology for discovering and investigating data quality issues, such as duplication, lack of consistency, and lack of accuracy and completeness. The tools provide data statistics, such as degree of duplication and ratios of attribute values, both in tabular and graphical formats.

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Peter James Thomas

AUGUST 18, 2018

Convergent Evolution refers to something else. That was the Science, here comes the Technology… A Brief Hydrology of Data Lakes. One of the early promises of a Data Lake approach was that – once all relevant data had been ingested – this would be directly leveraged by Data Scientists to derive insight.

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Cloudera

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Mark: The first element in the process is the link between the source data and the entry point into the data platform. At Ramsey International (RI), we refer to that layer in the architecture as the foundation, but others call it a staging area, raw zone, or even a source data lake.

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AWS Big Data

JUNE 9, 2023

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 Lake Metadata Optimization Statistics 113

AWS Big Data

JUNE 7, 2023

Cargotec captures terabytes of IoT telemetry data from their machinery operated by numerous customers across the globe. This data needs to be ingested into a data lake, transformed, and made available for analytics, machine learning (ML), and visualization. The target accounts read data from the source account S3 buckets.

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AWS Big Data

MAY 24, 2023

When you build your transactional data lake using Apache Iceberg to solve your functional use cases, you need to focus on operational use cases for your S3 data lake to optimize the production environment. For more information, refer to Retry Amazon S3 requests with EMRFS. availability.

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AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

For data lake customers who need to discover petabytes of data, AWS Glue crawlers are a popular way to discover and catalog data in the background. This allows users to search and find relevant data from multiple data sources. For instructions, refer to How to Set Up a MongoDB Cluster.

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Metadata Data Lake Machine Learning Management 74

AWS Big Data

JULY 21, 2023

Data-driven organizations treat data as an asset and use it across different lines of business (LOBs) to drive timely insights and better business decisions. This leads to having data across many instances of data warehouses and data lakes using a modern data architecture in separate AWS accounts.

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Data Lake Data Warehouse Marketing Management 86

Alation

JANUARY 26, 2023

Offer the right tools Data stewardship is greatly simplified when the right tools are on hand. So ask yourself, does your steward have the software to spot issues with data quality, for example? Do they have a system to manage the metadata for given assets? One example is the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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Alation

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

When it was no longer a hard requirement that a physical data model be created upon the ingestion of data, there was a resulting drop in richness of the description and consistency of the data stored in Hadoop. You did not have to understand or prepare the data to get it into Hadoop, so people rarely did.

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