Snowflake

APRIL 5, 2023

Two different data modeling approaches—dimensional data modeling and Data Vault—each have their own pros and cons. Modernizing a data warehouse with Snowflake Data Cloud is a smart investment that can provide significant benefits to businesses of all sizes, today more than ever as data models become ever more complex.

Data Warehouse 52

Data Warehouse Healthcare Unstructured Data Metadata 52

Monte Carlo

JUNE 28, 2022

Over the past several years, cloud data lakes like Databricks have gotten so powerful (and popular) that according to Mordor Intelligence , the data lake market is expected to grow from $3.74 Traditionally, data lakes held raw data in its native format and were known for their flexibility, speed, and open source ecosystem.

Data Lake 52

Data Lake Metadata AWS Data Warehouse 52

Hepta Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

This week, we got to think about our data ingestion design. We looked at the following: How do we ingest – ETL vs ELT Where do we store the data – Data lake vs data warehouse Which tool to we use to ingest – cronjob vs workflow engine NOTE : This weeks task requires good internet speed and good compute.

Data Ingestion 52

Data Ingestion Data Engineering Data Engineer Engineering 52

Knowledge Hut

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Hence, learning and developing the required data engineer skills set will ensure a better future and can even land you better salaries in good companies anywhere in the world. After all, data engineer skills are required to collect data, transform it appropriately, and make it accessible to data scientists.

Data Engineering 52

Data Engineering Data Engineer Engineering Generalist 52

Cloudera

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The data products are packaged around the business needs and in support of the business use cases. This step requires curation, harmonization, and standardization from the raw data into the products. Luke: Let’s talk about some of the fundamentals of modern data architecture. What is a data fabric?

Data Lake 79

Data Lake Analytics Application Cloud Storage Architecture 79

Workfall

AUGUST 14, 2023

DBT, which stands for Data Build Tool, is a powerful tool designed to transform and manage data in a scalable and reproducible manner. It allows data engineers to define and execute data transformations in a structured and modular way. Initialize the Airflow metadata database by running airflow initdb in your terminal.

Data Pipeline 62

Data Pipeline Raw Data Data Database 62

Monte Carlo

AUGUST 25, 2023

Different vendors offering data warehouses, data lakes, and now data lakehouses all offer their own distinct advantages and disadvantages for data teams to consider. So let’s get to the bottom of the big question: what kind of data storage layer will provide the strongest foundation for your data platform?

Data Lake 52

Data Lake Data Warehouse Unstructured Data Raw Data 52

Ascend.io

APRIL 12, 2023

Field and column names, data types, and variations in delimiters that designate fields. It should detect “schema drift,” and may involve operations that validate datasets against source system metadata, for example. For starters, we must acknowledge that to make your data usable, you have to process it. In the correct storage.

Data Pipeline 52

Data Pipeline Data Integration Datasets Data 52

ProjectPro

AUGUST 11, 2021

“Data Lake vs Data Warehouse = Load First, Think Later vs Think First, Load Later” The terms data lake and data warehouse are frequently stumbled upon when it comes to storing large volumes of data. Data Warehouse Architecture What is a Data lake?

Data Lake 52

Data Lake Data Warehouse Cloud Hadoop 52

ProjectPro

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Does not have a dedicated metadata database. Get FREE Access to Data Analytics Example Codes for Data Cleaning, Data Munging, and Data Visualization Hadoop technology is the buzz word these days but most of the IT professionals still are not aware of the key components that comprise the Hadoop Ecosystem.

Hadoop 52

Hadoop Unstructured Data Java SQL 52

Monte Carlo

JULY 25, 2023

Data curation is the process of transforming and enriching larger amounts of raw data into smaller, more widely accessible subsets of data that provide additional value to the organization or the intended use case. In This Article: What is data curation? Here are some example architectures.

Raw Data 52

Raw Data Data Warehouse Data Architecture 52

Monte Carlo

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Databricks announced that Delta tables metadata will also be compatible with the Iceberg format, and Snowflake has also been moving aggressively to integrate with Iceberg. It is designed to be easily queryable with SQL even for large analytic tables (we’re talking petabytes of data). How Apache Iceberg tables structure metadata.

Data Lake 64

Data Lake Metadata Data Warehouse SQL 64

ProjectPro

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

But this data is not that easy to manage since a lot of the data that we produce today is unstructured. In fact, 95% of organizations acknowledge the need to manage unstructured raw data since it is challenging and expensive to manage and analyze, which makes it a major concern for most businesses. How Does AWS Glue Work?

AWS 98

AWS Scala Metadata Data Lake 98

Towards Data Science

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Data Store Another significant change from 2021 to 2024 lies in the shift from “Data Warehouse” to “Data Store,” acknowledging the expanding database horizon, including the rise of Data Lakes. Their robust core offering seamlessly integrates data warehouses with data-hungry applications.

Building 82

Building Transportation Data Lake Metadata 82

Cloudera

JANUARY 21, 2021

While cloud-native, point-solution data warehouse services may serve your immediate business needs, there are dangers to the corporation as a whole when you do your own IT this way. Cloudera Data Warehouse (CDW) is here to save the day! CDW is an integrated data warehouse service within Cloudera Data Platform (CDP).

IT 93

IT Data Lake Data Warehouse Cloud Storage 93

AltexSoft

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The pun being obvious, there’s more to that than just a new term: Data lakehouses combine the best features of both data lakes and data warehouses and this post will explain this all. What is a data lakehouse? Data warehouse vs data lake vs data lakehouse: What’s the difference.

Architecture 52

Architecture Data Lake Data Warehouse Metadata 52

DataKitchen

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Data in Place refers to the organized structuring and storage of data within a specific storage medium, be it a database, bucket store, files, or other storage platforms. In the contemporary data landscape, data teams commonly utilize data warehouses or lakes to arrange their data into L1, L2, and L3 layers.

Raw Data 67

Raw Data Data Business Intelligence High Quality Data 67

AltexSoft

DECEMBER 23, 2022

It is a data integration process with which you first extract raw information (in its original formats) from various sources and load it straight into a central repository such as a cloud data warehouse , a data lake , or a data lakehouse where you transform it into suitable formats for further analysis and reporting.

Process 52

Process Building Raw Data Data Lake 52

Monte Carlo

APRIL 1, 2021

Over the past few years, data lakes have emerged as a must-have for the modern data stack. But while the technologies powering our access and analysis of data have matured, the mechanics behind understanding this data in a distributed environment have lagged behind. Who has access to it?

Data Lake 52

Data Lake Unstructured Data Data Warehouse Metadata 52

Snowflake

MARCH 30, 2023

Collecting, cleaning, and organizing data into a coherent form for business users to consume are all standard data modeling and data engineering tasks for loading a data warehouse. Based on Tecton blog So is this similar to data engineering pipelines into a data lake/warehouse?

Engineering 83

Engineering Raw Data Data Science Scala 83

Monte Carlo

JUNE 14, 2023

This frequently involves, in some order, extraction (from a source system), transformation (where data is combined with other data and put into the desired format), and loading (into storage where it can be accessed). In many cases the data stays in a data lake and is queried from there versus moving to the data warehouse.

Data Pipeline 52

Data Pipeline Architecture Data Lake Data Warehouse 52

AltexSoft

JUNE 26, 2023

Data collection revolves around gathering raw data from various sources, with the objective of using it for analysis and decision-making. It includes manual data entries, online surveys, extracting information from documents and databases, capturing signals from sensors, and more.

Data Collection 52

Data Collection Machine Learning Unstructured Data Non-relational Database 52

Maxime Beauchemin

AUGUST 28, 2017

Consensus seeking Whether you think that old-school data warehousing concepts are fading or not, the quest to achieve conformed dimensions and conformed metrics is as relevant as it ever was. The data warehouse needs to reflect the business, and the business should have clarity on how it thinks about analytics.

Data Engineering 174

Data Engineering Data Engineer Engineering Software Engineer 174

Rockset

MAY 8, 2023

The recent and astronomical improvements in accuracy and accessibility of large language models (LLMs) including BERT and OpenAI have made companies rethink how to build relevant search and analytics experiences. Due to the large number of listings at eBay, the data is loaded in batches to HDFS, eBay’s data warehouse.

Metadata 52

Metadata Algorithm Datasets Google Cloud 52

ProjectPro

JANUARY 31, 2022

As the demand for big data grows, an increasing number of businesses are turning to cloud data warehouses. The cloud is the only platform to handle today's colossal data volumes because of its flexibility and scalability. Launched in 2014, Snowflake is one of the most popular cloud data solutions on the market.

Architecture 52

Architecture IT Data Warehouse Amazon Web Services 52

ProjectPro

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Now that we have understood how much significant role data plays, it opens the way to a set of more questions like How do we acquire or extract raw data from the source? How do we transform this data to get valuable insights from it? Where do we finally store or load the transformed data?

Process 52

Process Data Pipeline Data Warehouse AWS 52

Monte Carlo

AUGUST 30, 2023

Often, teams run custom data tests as part of a deployment pipeline, or scheduled on production systems via job schedulers like Apache Airflow, dbt Cloud, or via in-built schedulers in your data warehouse solution. You will also need to securely store and provide dbt with the necessary credentials to access your target database.

SQL 52

SQL Datasets Database High Quality Data 52

AltexSoft

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

One of the innovative ways to address this problem is to build a data hub — a platform that unites all your information sources under a single umbrella. This article explains the main concepts of a data hub, its architecture, and how it differs from data warehouses and data lakes. What is Data Hub?

Architecture 52

Architecture Data Lake Unstructured Data Data Warehouse 52

AltexSoft

JULY 29, 2022

a runtime environment (sandbox) for classic business intelligence (BI), advanced analysis of large volumes of data, predictive maintenance , and data discovery and exploration; a store for raw data; a tool for large-scale data integration ; and. a suitable technology to implement data lake architecture.

Hadoop 59

Hadoop Big Data Google Cloud NoSQL 59

Data Engineering Podcast

JANUARY 28, 2018

Contact Info Dat datproject.org Email @dat_project on Twitter Dat Chat Danielle Email @daniellecrobins Joe Email @joeahand on Twitter Parting Question From your perspective, what is the biggest gap in the tooling or technology for data management today? So publications are behind paywalls.

Data 100

Data Project Electronics Data Management 100

Towards Data Science

DECEMBER 23, 2023

We carefully select our catch, pulling data through the API and storing it in JSON format — a way of organizing our fish so that it’s easy to access and use later. Reading and transforming data with PySpark : With our catch on board, we use PySpark, our compass, to navigate through this sea of data.

SQL 75

SQL Data Analytics Hadoop Raw Data 75

ProjectPro

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Becoming a Big Data Engineer - The Next Steps Big Data Engineer - The Market Demand An organization’s data science capabilities require data warehousing and mining, modeling, data infrastructure, and metadata management. Most of these are performed by Data Engineers.

Big Data 52

Big Data Data Engineering Data Engineer Engineering 52

ProjectPro

AUGUST 24, 2021

Within no time, most of them are either data scientists already or have set a clear goal to become one. Nevertheless, that is not the only job in the data world. And, out of these professions, this blog will discuss the data engineering job role. A data engineer interacts with this warehouse almost on an everyday basis.

Data Engineering 52

Data Engineering Data Engineer Coding Project 52

ProjectPro

JANUARY 31, 2023

Big data operations require specialized tools and techniques since a relational database cannot manage such a large amount of data. Big data enables businesses to gain a deeper understanding of their industry and helps them extract valuable information from the unstructured and raw data that is regularly collected.

Big Data 52

Big Data Hadoop AWS Relational Database 52

Airbnb Tech

JUNE 1, 2021

When a metric is defined in Minerva, authors are required to provide important self-describing metadata. Prior to Minerva, all such metadata often existed only as undocumented institutional knowledge or in chart definitions scattered across various business intelligence tools.

Datasets 52

Datasets Pipeline-centric Metadata Data Science 52

Monte Carlo

MARCH 28, 2023

As part of this movement, Fivetran and dbt fundamentally altered the data pipeline from ETL to ELT. Hightouch interrupted SaaS eating the world in an attempt to shift the center of gravity to the data warehouse. Other common light transformations done within the ingestion phase are data formatting and deduplication.

Data Warehouse 126

Data Warehouse Raw Data Data Pipeline Software Engineer 126

RandomTrees

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Generative AI with Data Lineage: By automating the process of collecting lineage metadata, generating visualizations of data lineage, and identifying and troubleshooting data lineage problems. Generating new insights: Ability to generate new insights from data that would not be possible to find using traditional methods.

Data Engineering 52

Data Engineering Data Engineer Engineering Data Lake 52