Ascend.io

AUGUST 31, 2023

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. Read More: What is ETL?

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Monte Carlo

APRIL 24, 2023

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. Databricks Data Catalog and AWS Lake Formation are examples in this vein. See our post: Data Lakes vs. Data Warehouses.

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Striim

JANUARY 4, 2023

Companies need to analyze large volumes of datasets, leading to an increase in data producers and consumers within their IT infrastructures. These companies collect data from production applications and B2B SaaS tools (e.g., This data makes its way into a data repository, like a data warehouse (e.g.,

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ProjectPro

JANUARY 24, 2023

It is a popular ETL tool well-suited for big data environments and extensively used by data engineers today to build and maintain data pipelines with minimal effort. You can leverage AWS Glue to discover, transform, and prepare your data for analytics.

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Rockset

APRIL 26, 2023

Offline feature store : Detecting anomalies requires historical data in order to have a baseline for comparisons. This data tends to be slow changing and is stored in an offline feature store. This could be a cloud data warehouse, a data lake, or a database. For anomaly detection, historical data is essential.

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RandomTrees

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

Snowflake Overview A data warehouse is a critical part of any business organization. Lot of cloud-based data warehouses are available in the market today, out of which let us focus on Snowflake. Snowflake is an analytical data warehouse that is provided as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).

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Monte Carlo

AUGUST 25, 2023

Different vendors offering data warehouses, data lakes, and now data lakehouses all offer their own distinct advantages and disadvantages for data teams to consider. So let’s get to the bottom of the big question: what kind of data storage layer will provide the strongest foundation for your data platform?

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Monte Carlo

MARCH 14, 2023

I recently sat down with three of BlaBlaCar’s data leaders to learn from their journey: vice-president of data Emmanuel Martin-Chave, data analytics engineering manager Kineret Kimhi, and senior data engineer Tushar Bhasin. Up to this point, the BlaBlaCar data organization was designed around skillsets.

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Snowflake

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Over the years, the technology landscape for data management has given rise to various architecture patterns, each thoughtfully designed to cater to specific use cases and requirements. These patterns include both centralized storage patterns like data warehouse , data lake and data lakehouse , and distributed patterns such as data mesh.

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ProjectPro

AUGUST 11, 2021

“Data Lake vs Data Warehouse = Load First, Think Later vs Think First, Load Later” The terms data lake and data warehouse are frequently stumbled upon when it comes to storing large volumes of data. Data Warehouse Architecture What is a Data lake?

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Cloudera

MAY 17, 2021

Making a decision on a cloud data warehouse is a big deal. Modernizing your data warehousing experience with the cloud means moving from dedicated, on-premises hardware focused on traditional relational analytics on structured data to a modern platform.

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ProjectPro

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Hive- Performance Benchmarking Hive vs Pig Pig vs Hive - Differences Pig Hive Procedural Data Flow Language Declarative SQLish Language For Programming For creating reports Mainly used by Researchers and Programmers Mainly used by Data Analysts Operates on the client side of a cluster. Does not have a dedicated metadata database.

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Monte Carlo

JANUARY 25, 2023

When it comes to the question of building or buying your data stack, there’s never a one-size-fits-all solution for every data team—or every component of your data stack. Data storage and compute are very much the foundation of your data platform. Let’s jump in! So, let’s take a look at each in a bit more detail.

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Data Engineering Podcast

JUNE 17, 2021

In this episode he shares the goals of the Unstruk Data Warehouse, how it is architected to extract asset metadata and build a searchable knowledge graph from the information, and the myriad ways that the system can be used. Hightouch is the easiest way to sync data into the platforms that your business teams rely on.

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ProjectPro

AUGUST 24, 2021

Nevertheless, that is not the only job in the data world. Data professionals who work with raw data like data engineers, data analysts, machine learning scientists , and machine learning engineers also play a crucial role in any data science project.

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Monte Carlo

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

A data catalog is a constantly updated inventory of the universe of data assets within an organization. It uses metadata to create a picture of the data, as well as the relationships between data assets of diverse sources, and the processing that takes place as data moves through systems.

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Towards Data Science

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Before going into further details on Delta Lake, we need to remember the concept of Data Lake, so let’s travel through some history. The main player in the context of the first data lakes was Hadoop, a distributed file system, with MapReduce, a processing paradigm built over the idea of minimal data movement and high parallelism.

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Monte Carlo

APRIL 1, 2021

Here’s where data catalogs fall short and how data discovery platforms and tools can help ensure your data lake doesn’t turn into a data swamp. is whether to choose a data warehouse or lake to power storage and compute for their analytics. Data discovery tools and platforms can help.

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Monte Carlo

JUNE 14, 2023

For example, data may be extracted from multiple sources, reorganized, and joined at different times before ultimately being served to its final destination. Why is data pipeline architecture important? Data then, and even today for some organizations, was primarily hosted in on-premises databases with non-scalable storage.

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AltexSoft

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The pun being obvious, there’s more to that than just a new term: Data lakehouses combine the best features of both data lakes and data warehouses and this post will explain this all. What is a data lakehouse? Data warehouse vs data lake vs data lakehouse: What’s the difference.

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Data Engineering Weekly

MARCH 24, 2023

Data engineering starts to add value to the business by capturing events at each step of the business process. The data engineers say these are the prime concerns in the data creation process. About Schemata Schemata is a schema modeling framework for decentralized domain-driven ownership of data.

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AltexSoft

JUNE 26, 2023

Both data integration and ingestion require building data pipelines — series of automated operations to move data from one system to another. For this task, you need a dedicated specialist — a data engineer or ETL developer. Data engineering explained in 14 minutes.

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Snowflake

MARCH 30, 2023

A 2016 data science report from data enrichment platform CrowdFlower found that data scientists spend around 80% of their time in data preparation (collecting, cleaning, and organizing of data) before they can even begin to build machine learning (ML) models to deliver business value. Enter Snowpark !

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Towards Data Science

MARCH 5, 2024

At its core, BigQuery is a serverless Data Warehouse for analytical purposes and built-in features like Machine Learning ( BigQuery ML ). The storage system is using Capacitor, a proprietary columnar storage format by Google for semi-structured data and the file system underneath is Colossus, the distributed file system by Google.

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ProjectPro

JANUARY 31, 2022

As the demand for big data grows, an increasing number of businesses are turning to cloud data warehouses. The cloud is the only platform to handle today's colossal data volumes because of its flexibility and scalability. Launched in 2014, Snowflake is one of the most popular cloud data solutions on the market.

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AltexSoft

JULY 19, 2022

In the last few decades, we’ve seen a lot of architectural approaches to building data pipelines , changing one another and promising better and easier ways of deriving insights from information. There have been relational databases, data warehouses, data lakes, and even a combination of the latter two.

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AltexSoft

AUGUST 22, 2022

A data fabric is an architecture design presented as an integration and orchestration layer built on top of multiple disjointed data sources like relational databases , data warehouses , data lakes, data marts , IoT , legacy systems, etc., to provide a unified view of all enterprise data.

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Ascend.io

JUNE 8, 2023

Data Ingestion Data in today’s businesses come from an array of sources, including various clouds, APIs, warehouses, and applications. This multitude of sources often causes a dispersed, complex, and poorly structured data landscape.

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AltexSoft

JULY 29, 2022

What happens, when a data scientist, BI developer , or data engineer feeds a huge file to Hadoop? Under the hood, the framework divides a chunk of Big Data into smaller, digestible parts and allocates them across multiple commodity machines to be processed in parallel. How HDFS master-slave structure works.

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AltexSoft

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Data integration defines the process of collecting data from a number of disparate source systems and presenting it in a unified form within a centralized location like a data warehouse. So, why is data integration such a big deal? Connections to both data warehouses and data lakes are possible in any case.

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Towards Data Science

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Photo by Ian Taylor on Unsplash This tutorial guides you through an analytics use case, analyzing semi-structured data with Spark SQL. We’ll start with the data engineering process, pulling data from an API and finally loading the transformed data into a data lake (represented by MinIO ).

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ProjectPro

JANUARY 31, 2023

Data Variety Hadoop stores structured, semi-structured and unstructured data. RDBMS stores structured data. Data storage Hadoop stores large data sets. RDBMS stores the average amount of data. Works with only structured data. Hardware Hadoop uses commodity hardware.

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ProjectPro

APRIL 26, 2016

Pig vs Hive Criteria Pig Hive Type of Data Apache Pig is usually used for semi structured data. Used for Structured Data Schema Schema is optional. Language It is a procedural data flow language. Hcatalog can be used to share data structures with external systems.

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ProjectPro

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Having multiple data integration routes helps optimize the operational as well as analytical use of data. Experimentation in production Big Data Data Warehouse for core ETL tasks Direct data pipelines Tiered Data Lake 4. If Data Science were a linear activity, it would be called Data Engineering.

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ProjectPro

AUGUST 21, 2015

Hadoop vs RDBMS Criteria Hadoop RDBMS Datatypes Processes semi-structured and unstructured data. Processes structured data. Schema Schema on Read Schema on Write Best Fit for Applications Data discovery and Massive Storage/Processing of Unstructured data. are all examples of unstructured data.

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Monte Carlo

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

As your datasets start to grow beyond what can be manually inspected, there’s a transition to using dbt for more structured data testing. Column-level tests are manually added to validate data integrity and ensure specific data quality standards.

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phData: Data Engineering

JULY 18, 2023

With the birth of cloud data warehouses, data applications, and generative AI , processing large volumes of data faster and cheaper is more approachable and desired than ever. First up, let’s dive into the foundation of every Modern Data Stack, a cloud-based data warehouse.

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