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Data Lake Explained: A Comprehensive Guide to Its Architecture and Use Cases

AltexSoft

In 2010, a transformative concept took root in the realm of data storage and analytics — a data lake. The term was coined by James Dixon , Back-End Java, Data, and Business Intelligence Engineer, and it started a new era in how organizations could store, manage, and analyze their data. Structured data sources.

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Is the data warehouse going under the data lake?

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Data warehouses do a good job for what they are meant to do, but with disparate data sources and different data types like transaction logs, social media data, tweets, user reviews, and clickstream dataData Lakes fulfil a critical need. Data Warehouses do not retain all data whereas Data Lakes do.

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5 Big Data Use Cases- How Companies Use Big Data

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Companies like Electronic Arts, Riot Games are using big data for keeping a track of game play which helps predict performance of the play by analysing 4TB of operational logs and 500GB of structured data. Sports brands like ESPN have also got on to the big data bandwagon.

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Top 14 Big Data Analytics Tools in 2024

Knowledge Hut

MongoDB This free, open-source platform, which came into the limelight in 2010, is a document-oriented (NoSQL) database that is used to store a large amount of information in a structured manner. The first is the type of data you have, which will determine the tool you need.

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Recommender Systems: Behind the Scenes of Machine-Learning-Based Personalization

AltexSoft

line from “Taxi Driver” over and over again but still hate “lame” 2010’s comedies featuring him. Taking into account all the pros and cons, it’s fair to say that content-based filtering models fill the bill when there isn’t enough interaction data. Or you may use a mix of different data repositories depending on the purposes.

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Hadoop Ecosystem Components and Its Architecture

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In our earlier articles, we have defined “What is Apache Hadoop” To recap, Apache Hadoop is a distributed computing open source framework for storing and processing huge unstructured datasets distributed across different clusters. It can also be used for exporting data from Hadoop o other external structured data stores.

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Top 10 Industries using Big Data and 121 companies who hire Hadoop Developers

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3 LinkedIn Social site 2X4 and 2X6 cores – 6X2TB SATA 4100 nodes LinkedIn's data flows through Hadoop clusters.User activity, server metrics, images,transaction logs stored in HDFS are used by data analysts for business analytics like discovering people you may know. Hadoop is used at eBay for Search Optimization and Research.

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