AltexSoft

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Kafka can continue the list of brand names that became generic terms for the entire type of technology. Similar to Google in web browsing and Photoshop in image processing, it became a gold standard in data streaming, preferred by 70 percent of Fortune 500 companies. What is Kafka? What Kafka is used for.

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Kafka Hadoop ETL Tools Big Data 93

Ascend.io

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Use Case: Transforming monthly sales data to weekly averages import dask.dataframe as dd data = dd.read_csv('large_dataset.csv') mean_values = data.groupby('category').mean().compute() compute() Data Storage Python extends its mastery to data storage, boasting smooth integrations with both SQL and NoSQL databases.

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Data Engineering Data Engineer Python Engineering 52

AltexSoft

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In this edition of “The Good and The Bad” series, we’ll dig deep into Elasticsearch — breaking down its functionalities, advantages, and limitations to help you decide if it’s the right tool for your data-driven aspirations. What is Elasticsearch? It is developed in Java and built upon the highly reputable Apache Lucene library.

Engineering 52

Engineering NoSQL Programming Language Java 52

Rockset

APRIL 15, 2022

Explosion in Streaming Data Before Kafka, Spark and Flink, streaming came in two flavors: Business Event Processing (BEP) and Complex Event Processing (CEP). Many (Kafka, Spark and Flink) were open source. Rockset not only continuously ingests data, but also can “rollup” the data as it is being generated.

Analytics Application 52

Analytics Application Data Warehouse Raw Data Kafka 52

AltexSoft

MARCH 14, 2023

Additionally, this modularity can help prevent vendor lock-in, giving organizations more flexibility and control over their data stack. Many components of a modern data stack (such as Apache Airflow, Kafka, Spark, and others) are open-source and free. Offered as open-source with active support by communities.

IT 59

IT Data Warehouse Data Governance Data Lake 59

ProjectPro

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

It was built from the ground up for interactive analytics and can scale to the size of Facebook while approaching the speed of commercial data warehouses. Presto allows you to query data stored in Hive, Cassandra, relational databases, and even bespoke data storage. CMAK is developed to help the Kafka community.

Big Data 52

Big Data Project Metadata Programming Language 52

Rockset

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Further, data is king, and users want to be able to slice and dice aggregated data as needed to find insights. Users don't want to wait for data engineers to provision new indexes or build new ETL chains. They want unfettered access to the freshest data available. DynamoDB is a NoSQL database provided by AWS.

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