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Differentiating Between Data Lakes and Data Warehouses

Smart Data Collective

The market for data warehouses is booming. 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. Data Warehouse.

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

AWS Big Data

Data lakes are more focused around storing and maintaining all the data in an organization in one place. And unlike data warehouses, which are primarily analytical stores, a data hub is a combination of all types of repositories—analytical, transactional, operational, reference, and data I/O services, along with governance processes.

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Transforming Big Data into Actionable Intelligence

Sisense

Looking at the diagram, we see that Business Intelligence (BI) is a collection of analytical methods applied to big data to surface actionable intelligence by identifying patterns in voluminous data. As we move from right to left in the diagram, from big data to BI, we notice that unstructured data transforms into structured data.

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Quantitative and Qualitative Data: A Vital Combination

Sisense

When these systems connect with external groups — customers, subscribers, shareholders, stakeholders — even more data is generated, collected, and exchanged. The result, as Sisense CEO Amir Orad wrote , is that every company is now a data company. This is quantitative data. Qualitative data benefits: Unlocking understanding.

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Interview with Dominic Sartorio, Senior Vice President for Products & Development, Protegrity

Corinium

And it’s become a hyper-competitive business, so enhancing customer service through data is critical for maintaining customer loyalty. And more recently, we have also seen innovation with IOT (Internet Of Things). It definitely depends on the type of data, no one method is always better than the other.

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Building Better Data Models to Unlock Next-Level Intelligence

Sisense

We’re going to nerd out for a minute and dig into the evolving architecture of Sisense to illustrate some elements of the data modeling process: Historically, the data modeling process that Sisense recommended was to structure data mainly to support the BI and analytics capabilities/users.

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Cloudera + Hortonworks, from the Edge to AI

Cloudera

In the data center and in the cloud, there’s a proliferation of players, often building on technology we’ve created or contributed to, battling for share. The opportunity has only grown with the advent of practical Internet of Things applications. We have each innovated separately in those areas.