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Sqoop vs. Flume Battle of the Hadoop ETL tools

ProjectPro

Some of the common challenges with data ingestion in Hadoop are parallel processing, data quality, machine data on a higher scale of several gigabytes per minute, multiple source ingestion, real-time ingestion and scalability. Sqoop hadoop can also be used for exporting data from HDFS into RDBMS.

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Data Warehousing Guide: Fundamentals & Key Concepts

Monte Carlo

Cloud data warehouses solve these problems. Belonging to the category of OLAP (online analytical processing) databases, popular data warehouses like Snowflake, Redshift and Big Query can query one billion rows in less than a minute. What is a data warehouse?

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Tips to Build a Robust Data Lake Infrastructure

DareData

The architecture of a data lake project may contain multiple components, including the Data Lake itself, one or multiple Data Warehouses or one or multiple Data Marts. The Data Lake acts as the central repository for aggregating data from diverse sources in its raw format.

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Data Marts: What They Are and Why Businesses Need Them

AltexSoft

Now let’s think of sweets as the data required for your company’s daily operations. Instead of combing through the vast amounts of all organizational data stored in a data warehouse, you can use a data mart — a repository that makes specific pieces of data available quickly to any given business unit.

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How to Become an Azure Data Engineer? 2023 Roadmap

Knowledge Hut

To be an Azure Data Engineer, you must have a working knowledge of SQL (Structured Query Language), which is used to extract and manipulate data from relational databases. You should be able to create intricate queries that use subqueries, join numerous tables, and aggregate data.

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Analytics Engineer: Job Description, Skills, and Responsibilities

AltexSoft

If we take the more traditional approach to data-related jobs used by larger companies, there are different specialists doing narrowly-focused tasks on different sides of the project. Data engineers build data pipelines and perform ETL — extract data from sources, transform it, and load it into a centralized repository like a data warehouse.

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The Good and the Bad of Apache Kafka Streaming Platform

AltexSoft

The technology was written in Java and Scala in LinkedIn to solve the internal problem of managing continuous data flows. This enables systems using Kafka to aggregate data from many sources and to make it consistent. Instead of interfering with each other, Kafka consumers create groups and split data among themselves.

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