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Data Lake Explained: A Comprehensive Guide to Its Architecture and Use Cases

AltexSoft

In 2010, a transformative concept took root in the realm of data storage and analytics — a data lake. The term was coined by James Dixon , Back-End Java, Data, and Business Intelligence Engineer, and it started a new era in how organizations could store, manage, and analyze their data. What is a data lake?

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A Prequel to Data Mesh

Towards Data Science

When I heard the words ‘decentralised data architecture’, I was left utterly confused at first! In my then limited experience as a Data Engineer, I had only come across centralised data architectures and they seemed to be working very well. New data formats emerged — JSON, Avro, Parquet, XML etc.

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Is the data warehouse going under the data lake?

ProjectPro

For the same cost, organizations can now store 50 times as much data as in a Hadoop data lake than in a data warehouse. Data lake is gaining momentum across various organizations and everyone wants to know how to implement a data lake and why.

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Moving Past ETL and ELT: Understanding the EtLT Approach

Ascend.io

In the dynamic world of data, many professionals are still fixated on traditional patterns of data warehousing and ETL, even while their organizations are migrating to the cloud and adopting cloud-native data services. Central to this transformation are two shifts.

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[O’Reilly Book] Chapter 1: Why Data Quality Deserves Attention Now

Monte Carlo

Data pipelines can handle both batch and streaming data, and at a high-level, the methods for measuring data quality for either type of asset are much the same. We’ll take a closer look at variables that can impact your data next. What is a decentralized data architecture?

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Three Reference Architectures for Real-Time Analytics On Streaming Data

Rockset

We’ve noticed many common patterns across streaming data architectures and we’ll be sharing a blueprint for three of the most popular: anomaly detection, IoT, and recommendations. Offline feature store : Detecting anomalies requires historical data in order to have a baseline for comparisons. The database has two primary jobs.

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Power BI Developer Roles and Responsibilities [2023 Updated]

Knowledge Hut

Data Transformation and ETL: Handle more complex data transformation and ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes, including handling data from multiple sources and dealing with complex data structures. Ensure compliance with data protection regulations. Define data architecture standards and best practices.

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