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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phData: Data Engineering

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Want to learn more about data governance? Check out our Data Governance on Snowflake blog! Metadata Management Data modeling methodologies help in managing metadata within the data lake. Metadata describes the characteristics, attributes, and context of the data.

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Monte Carlo

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

To differentiate and expand the usefulness of these models, organizations must augment them with first-party data – typically via a process called RAG (retrieval augmented generation). Today, this first-party data mostly lives in two types of data repositories.

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AltexSoft

AUGUST 29, 2023

Instead of relying on traditional hierarchical structures and predefined schemas, as in the case of data warehouses, a data lake utilizes a flat architecture. This structure is made efficient by data engineering practices that include object storage. Data warehouse vs. data lake in a nutshell.

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Ascend.io

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Read More: AI Data Platform: Key Requirements for Fueling AI Initiatives How Data Engineering Enables AI Data engineering is the backbone of AI’s potential to transform industries , offering the essential infrastructure that powers AI algorithms.

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ProjectPro

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

With so much riding on the efficiency of ETL processes for data engineering teams, it is essential to take a deep dive into the complex world of ETL on AWS to take your data management to the next level. Data integration with ETL has changed in the last three decades. But cloud computing is preferred over the other.

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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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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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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

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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Cloudera

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

To address this, they focused on creating an experimentation-oriented culture, enabled thanks to a cloud-native platform supporting the full data lifecycle. This platform, including an ad-hoc capable data warehouse service with built-in, easy-to-use visualization, made it easy for anyone to jump in and start experimenting.

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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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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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Hepta Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

This week, we got to think about our data ingestion design. We looked at the following: How do we ingest – ETL vs ELT Where do we store the data – Data lake vs data warehouse Which tool to we use to ingest – cronjob vs workflow engine NOTE : This weeks task requires good internet speed and good compute.

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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

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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Monte Carlo

APRIL 1, 2021

is whether to choose a data warehouse or lake to power storage and compute for their analytics. While data warehouses provide structure that makes it easy for data teams to efficiently operationalize data (i.e., Data discovery tools and platforms can help. Image courtesy of Adrian on Unsplash.

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AltexSoft

JUNE 26, 2023

From the perspective of data science, all miscellaneous forms of data fall into three large groups: structured, semi-structured, and unstructured. Key differences between structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. Note, though, that not any type of web scraping is legal.

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AltexSoft

MARCH 14, 2023

As the volume and complexity of data continue to grow, organizations seek faster, more efficient, and cost-effective ways to manage and analyze data. In recent years, cloud-based data warehouses have revolutionized data processing with their advanced massively parallel processing (MPP) capabilities and SQL support.

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Silectis

JANUARY 3, 2021

Big Data Processing In order to extract value or insights out of big data, one must first process it using big data processing software or frameworks, such as Hadoop. Big Query Google’s cloud data warehouse. Data Catalog An organized inventory of data assets relying on metadata to help with data management.

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AltexSoft

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

One of the innovative ways to address this problem is to build a data hub — a platform that unites all your information sources under a single umbrella. This article explains the main concepts of a data hub, its architecture, and how it differs from data warehouses and data lakes. What is Data Hub?

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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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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. The database has two primary jobs.

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Monte Carlo

JUNE 28, 2023

These are the world of data and the data warehouse that is focused on using structured data to answer questions about the past and the world of AI that needs more unstructured data to train models to predict the future. Naturally most of the room raised their hands. With Delta Lake 3.0

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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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AltexSoft

MARCH 30, 2023

What is Databricks Databricks is an analytics platform with a unified set of tools for data engineering, data management , data science, and machine learning. It combines the best elements of a data warehouse, a centralized repository for structured data, and a data lake used to host large amounts of raw data.

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ProjectPro

JANUARY 24, 2023

You can leverage AWS Glue to discover, transform, and prepare your data for analytics. In addition to databases running on AWS, Glue can automatically find structured and semi-structured data kept in your data lake on Amazon S3, data warehouse on Amazon Redshift, and other storage locations.

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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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Monte Carlo

JUNE 14, 2023

The modern data stack era , roughly 2017 to present data, saw the widespread adoption of cloud computing and modern data repositories that decoupled storage from compute such as data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses. They also recently acquired Apache Flink , another streaming solution.

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Rockset

AUGUST 2, 2023

The steps Windward takes to create proprietary data and AI insights As Windward operated in a batch-based data stack, they stored raw data in S3. They used MongoDB as their metadata store to capture vessel and company data.

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AltexSoft

MAY 12, 2023

What is unstructured data? Definition and examples Unstructured data , in its simplest form, refers to any data that does not have a pre-defined structure or organization. It can come in different forms, such as text documents, emails, images, videos, social media posts, sensor data, etc.

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Data Engineering Weekly

MARCH 24, 2023

About Schemata Schemata is a schema modeling framework for decentralized domain-driven ownership of data. Schemata combine a set of standard metadata definitions for each schema & data field and a scoring algorithm to provide a feedback loop on how efficient the data modeling of your data warehouse is.

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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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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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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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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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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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