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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. Key Differences.

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Salesforce debuts Zero Copy Partner Network to ease data integration

CIO Business Intelligence

Currently, a handful of startups offer “reverse” extract, transform, and load (ETL), in which they copy data from a customer’s data warehouse or data platform back into systems of engagement where business users do their work. It works in Salesforce just like any other native Salesforce data,” Carlson said.

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Data governance in the age of generative AI

AWS Big Data

Data governance is a critical building block across all these approaches, and we see two emerging areas of focus. First, many LLM use cases rely on enterprise knowledge that needs to be drawn from unstructured data such as documents, transcripts, and images, in addition to structured data from data warehouses.

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What is a data architect? Skills, salaries, and how to become a data framework master

CIO Business Intelligence

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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Informatica’s new data management clouds target health, finance services

CIO Business Intelligence

The Intelligent Data Management Cloud for Financial Services, like Informatica’s other industry-focused platforms, combines vertical-based accelerators with the company’s suite of machine learning tools to help with challenges around unstructured data and quick data-based decision making. .

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Educating ChatGPT on Data Lakehouse

Cloudera

When implementing a data lakehouse, the table format is a critical piece because it acts as an abstraction layer, making it easy to access all the structured, unstructured data in the lakehouse by any engine or tool, concurrently. Some of the popular table formats are Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, Hudi, and Hive ACID.

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Do I Need a Data Catalog?

erwin

Given the value this sort of data-driven insight can provide, the reason organizations need a data catalog should become clearer. It’s no surprise that most organizations’ data is often fragmented and siloed across numerous sources (e.g., Three Types of Metadata in a Data Catalog. Technical Metadata.

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