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

AltexSoft

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. This article explains what a data lake is, its architecture, and diverse use cases. Watch our video explaining how data engineering works.

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Top Data Lake Vendors (Quick Reference Guide)

Monte Carlo

Traditionally, after being stored in a data lake, raw data was then often moved to various destinations like a data warehouse for further processing, analysis, and consumption. Databricks Data Catalog and AWS Lake Formation are examples in this vein. AWS is one of the most popular data lake vendors.

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Data Lakes vs. Data Warehouses

Grouparoo

When it comes to storing large volumes of data, a simple database will be impractical due to the processing and throughput inefficiencies that emerge when managing and accessing big data. This article looks at the options available for storing and processing big data, which is too large for conventional databases to handle.

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Moving Past ETL and ELT: Understanding the EtLT Approach

Ascend.io

For example, unlike traditional platforms with set schemas, data lakes adapt to frequently changing data structures at points where the data is loaded , accessed, and used. They can accommodate any type of data, from structured to semi-structured to unstructured, and do not need a predefined schema.

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Modernizing Data Warehousing with Snowflake and Hybrid Data Vault

Snowflake

With Snowflake’s support for multiple data models such as dimensional data modeling and Data Vault, as well as support for a variety of data types including semi-structured and unstructured data, organizations can accommodate a variety of sources to support their different business use cases.

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Monte Carlo Announces Delta Lake, Unity Catalog Integrations To Bring End-to-End Data Observability to Databricks

Monte Carlo

Traditionally, data lakes held raw data in its native format and were known for their flexibility, speed, and open source ecosystem. By design, data was less structured with limited metadata and no ACID properties. Unity Catalog The Unity Catalog unifies metastores, catalogs, and metadata within Databricks.

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Demystifying Modern Data Platforms

Cloudera

Mark: While most discussions of modern data platforms focus on comparing the key components, it is important to understand how they all fit together. The collection of source data shown on your left is composed of both structured and unstructured data from the organization’s internal and external sources.