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Understanding the Differences Between Data Lakes and Data Warehouses

Smart Data Collective

Data lakes and data warehouses are probably the two most widely used structures for storing data. Data Warehouses and Data Lakes in a Nutshell. A data warehouse is used as a central storage space for large amounts of structured data coming from various sources. Data Type and Processing.

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Build a serverless transactional data lake with Apache Iceberg, Amazon EMR Serverless, and Amazon Athena

AWS Big Data

Since the deluge of big data over a decade ago, many organizations have learned to build applications to process and analyze petabytes of data. Data lakes have served as a central repository to store structured and unstructured data at any scale and in various formats.

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Build a real-time GDPR-aligned Apache Iceberg data lake

AWS Big Data

Data lakes are a popular choice for today’s organizations to store their data around their business activities. As a best practice of a data lake design, data should be immutable once stored. A data lake built on AWS uses Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) as its primary storage environment.

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Salesforce debuts Zero Copy Partner Network to ease data integration

CIO Business Intelligence

At Salesforce World Tour NYC today, Salesforce unveiled a new global ecosystem of technology and solution providers geared to help its customers leverage third-party data via secure, bidirectional zero-copy integrations with Salesforce Data Cloud. It works in Salesforce just like any other native Salesforce data,” Carlson said.

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How Knowledge Graphs Power Data Mesh and Data Fabric

Ontotext

The data ecosystem today is crowded with dazzling buzzwords, all fighting for investment dollars. A survey in 2021 found that a data company was being funded every 45 minutes. Data ecosystems have become jungles and in spite of all the technology, data teams are struggling to create a modern data experience.

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Modernize your ETL platform with AWS Glue Studio: A case study from BMS

AWS Big Data

For the past 5 years, BMS has used a custom framework called Enterprise Data Lake Services (EDLS) to create ETL jobs for business users. EDLS job steps and metadata Every EDLS job comprises one or more job steps chained together and run in a predefined order orchestrated by the custom ETL framework.

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Introducing AWS Glue crawler and create table support for Apache Iceberg format

AWS Big Data

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. Choose Create.