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A Definitive Guide to Using BigQuery Efficiently

Towards Data Science

This comes with the advantages of reduction of redundancy, data integrity and consequently, less storage usage. Photo by Shubham Dhage on Unsplash While data normalization holds merit in traditional relational databases, the paradigm shifts when dealing with modern analytics platforms like BigQuery.

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When To Use Internal vs. External Stages in Snowflake

phData: Data Engineering

Within Snowflake, data can either be stored locally or accessed from other cloud storage systems. Snowflake’s ‘staging area’ is a specific storage location where raw files are first loaded before they’re imported into the Snowflake database.

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The Future of Database Management in 2023

Knowledge Hut

NoSQL Databases NoSQL databases are non-relational databases (that do not store data in rows or columns) more effective than conventional relational databases (databases that store information in a tabular format) in handling unstructured and semi-structured data.

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A Comprehensive Cloud Computing Mindmap

Knowledge Hut

A cloud provider leases infrastructure and technology to other businesses or individual people for computing, networking or storage purposes. The top 3 major providers as of this date are Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), with AWS leading the market. which you can explore.

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The Alooma Data Pipeline With CTO Yair Weinberger - Episode 33

Data Engineering Podcast

Links Alooma Convert Media Data Integration ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) Tibco Mulesoft ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) Informatica Microsoft SSIS OLAP Cube S3 Azure Cloud Storage Snowflake DB Redshift BigQuery Salesforce Hubspot Zendesk Spark The Log: What every software engineer should know about real-time data’s unifying abstraction by Jay (..)

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Unstructured Data: Examples, Tools, Techniques, and Best Practices

AltexSoft

It is commonly stored in relational database management systems (DBMSs) such as SQL Server, Oracle, and MySQL, and is managed by data analysts and database administrators. There are several widely used unstructured data storage solutions such as data lakes (e.g., Hadoop, Apache Spark).

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What Is a Serverless Database and Why Use One

Rockset

Azure Data Lake: Microsoft's analytics platform and serverless data lake is offered through the company's public cloud, Azure. Google Cloud Storage: This RESTful cloud storage solution is offered through the Google Cloud Platform.