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ELT Explained: What You Need to Know

Ascend.io

Extract The initial stage of the ELT process is the extraction of data from various source systems. This phase involves collecting raw data from the sources, which can range from structured data in SQL or NoSQL servers, CRM and ERP systems, to unstructured data from text files, emails, and web pages.

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Tips to Build a Robust Data Lake Infrastructure

DareData

We've seen this happen in dozens of our customers: data lakes serve as catalysts that empower analytical capabilities. If you work at a relatively large company, you've seen this cycle happening many times: Analytics team wants to use unstructured data on their models or analysis. And what is the reason for that?

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Data Warehousing Guide: Fundamentals & Key Concepts

Monte Carlo

This article will define in simple terms what a data warehouse is, how it’s different from a database, fundamentals of how they work, and an overview of today’s most popular data warehouses. What is a data warehouse? Data can be loaded in batches or can be streamed in near real-time.

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Evolution of ML Fact Store

Netflix Tech

Since we train our models on several weeks of data, this method is slow for us as we will have to wait for several weeks for the data collection. The Iceberg table created by Keystone contains large blobs of unstructured data. Was data corrupted at rest? Compute applications follow daily trends.

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The Good and the Bad of the Elasticsearch Search and Analytics Engine

AltexSoft

These indices are specially designed data structures that map out the data for rapid searches, allowing for the retrieval of queries in milliseconds. As a result, Elasticsearch is exceptionally efficient in managing structured and unstructured data. Fluentd is a data collector and a lighter-weight alternative to Logstash.

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100+ Data Engineer Interview Questions and Answers for 2023

ProjectPro

Data Engineer Interview Questions on Big Data Any organization that relies on data must perform big data engineering to stand out from the crowd. But data collection, storage, and large-scale data processing are only the first steps in the complex process of big data analysis.

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What is Data Engineering? Everything You Need to Know in 2022

phData: Data Engineering

This likely requires you to aggregate data from your ERP system, your supply chain system, potentially third-party vendors, and data around your internal business structure. Data governance is more focused on data administration, and data engineering is focused on data execution.