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

AltexSoft

In today’s data-driven world, organizations amass vast amounts of information that can unlock significant insights and inform decision-making. A staggering 80 percent of this digital treasure trove is unstructured data, which lacks a pre-defined format or organization. What is unstructured data?

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Why SQL on Raw Data?

Rockset

Over a decade after the inception of the Hadoop project, the amount of unstructured data available to modern applications continues to increase. This longevity is a testament to the community of analysts and data practitioners who are familiar with SQL as well as the mature ecosystem of tools around the language.

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Data Warehouse vs Data Lake vs Data Lakehouse: Definitions, Similarities, and Differences

Monte Carlo

Modern companies are ingesting, storing, transforming, and leveraging more data to drive more decision-making than ever before. At the same time, 81% of IT leaders say their C-suite has mandated no additional spending or a reduction of cloud costs. For metadata organization, they often use Hive, Amazon Glue, or Databricks.

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Data Warehouse vs. Data Lake

Precisely

As cloud computing platforms make it possible to perform advanced analytics on ever larger and more diverse data sets, new and innovative approaches have emerged for storing, preprocessing, and analyzing information. Hadoop, Snowflake, Databricks and other products have rapidly gained adoption.

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ELT Explained: What You Need to Know

Ascend.io

The emergence of cloud data warehouses, offering scalable and cost-effective data storage and processing capabilities, initiated a pivotal shift in data management methodologies. Extract The initial stage of the ELT process is the extraction of data from various source systems. What Is ELT? So, what exactly is ELT?

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How to Become a Data Engineer in 2024?

Knowledge Hut

Businesses benefit at large with these data collection and analysis as they allow organizations to make predictions and give insights about products so that they can make informed decisions, backed by inferences from existing data, which, in turn, helps in huge profit returns to such businesses. What is the role of a Data Engineer?