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Setting up Data Lake on GCP using Cloud Storage and BigQuery

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction A data lake is a centralized and scalable repository storing structured and unstructured data. The need for a data lake arises from the growing volume, variety, and velocity of data companies need to manage and analyze.

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Top Data Lake Vendors (Quick Reference Guide)

Monte Carlo

Data lakes are useful, flexible data storage repositories that enable many types of data to be stored in its rawest state. 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.

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Fivetran Supports the Automation of the Modern Data Lake on Amazon S3

phData: Data Engineering

Fivetran today announced support for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) with Apache Iceberg data lake format. Amazon S3 is an object storage service from Amazon Web Services (AWS) that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance.

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Moving Past ETL and ELT: Understanding the EtLT Approach

Ascend.io

Secondly , the rise of data lakes that catalyzed the transition from ELT to ELT and paved the way for niche paradigms such as Reverse ETL and Zero-ETL. Still, these methods have been overshadowed by EtLT — the predominant approach reshaping today’s data landscape.

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Demystifying Modern Data Platforms

Cloudera

Mark: The first element in the process is the link between the source data and the entry point into the data platform. At Ramsey International (RI), we refer to that layer in the architecture as the foundation, but others call it a staging area, raw zone, or even a source data lake. What is a data fabric?

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Open Source Object Storage For All Of Your Data

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary Object storage is quickly becoming the unifying layer for data intensive applications and analytics. Modern, cloud oriented data warehouses and data lakes both rely on the durability and ease of use that it provides. How do you approach project governance and sustainability?

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How Much Data Do We Need? Balancing Machine Learning with Security Considerations

Towards Data Science

Taking a hard look at data privacy puts our habits and choices in a different context, however. Data scientists’ instincts and desires often work in tension with the needs of data privacy and security. Anyone who’s fought to get access to a database or data warehouse in order to build a model can relate.