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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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Data Modeling 301 for the cloud: data lake and NoSQL data modeling and design

erwin

For NoSQL, data lakes, and data lake houses—data modeling of both structured and unstructured data is somewhat novel and thorny. This blog is an introduction to some advanced NoSQL and data lake database design techniques (while avoiding common pitfalls) is noteworthy. Data Modeling.

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TransUnion transforms its business model with IT

CIO Business Intelligence

Once completed within two years, the platform, OneTru, will give TransUnion and its customers access to TransUnion’s behemoth trove of consumer data to fuel next-generation analytical services, machine learning models and generative AI applications, says Achanta, who is driving the effort, and held similar posts at Neustar and Walmart.

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How a Delta Lake is Process with Azure Synapse Analytics

Analytics Vidhya

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Introduction We are all pretty much familiar with the common modern cloud data warehouse model, which essentially provides a platform comprising a data lake (based on a cloud storage account such as Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2) AND a data warehouse compute engine […].

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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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Schema Evolution in Data Lakes

KDnuggets

Whereas a data warehouse will need rigid data modeling and definitions, a data lake can store different types and shapes of data. In a data lake, the schema of the data can be inferred when it’s read, providing the aforementioned flexibility.

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

Jet Global

That stands for “bring your own database,” and it refers to a model in which core ERP data are replicated to a separate standalone database used exclusively for reporting. OLAP reporting based on a data warehouse model is a well-proven solution for companies with robust reporting requirements. Option 3: Azure Data Lakes.