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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. In this article, we’ll focus on a data lake vs. data warehouse.

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5 Helpful Extract & Load Practices for High-Quality Raw Data

Meltano

ELT is becoming the default choice for data architectures and yet, many best practices focus primarily on “T”: the transformations. But the extract and load phase is where data quality is determined for transformation and beyond. “Raw data” sounds clear. But wait, why aren’t these “best practices”?

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Data Lakes vs. Data Warehouses

Grouparoo

When it comes to storing large volumes of data, a simple database will be impractical due to the processing and throughput inefficiencies that emerge when managing and accessing big data. This article looks at the options available for storing and processing big data, which is too large for conventional databases to handle.

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How to get started with dbt

Christophe Blefari

dbt Core is an open-source framework that helps you organise data warehouse SQL transformation. dbt was born out of the analysis that more and more companies were switching from on-premise Hadoop data infrastructure to cloud data warehouses. This switch has been lead by modern data stack vision.

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Best Practices for Migrating Historical Data to Snowflake

Snowflake

At TCS , we help companies shift their enterprise data warehouse (EDW) platforms to the cloud as well as offering IT services. We’re extremely familiar with just how tricky a cloud migration can be, especially when it involves moving historical business data. How many tables and views will be migrated, and how much raw data?

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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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5 Big Data Challenges in 2024

Knowledge Hut

The year 2024 saw some enthralling changes in volume and variety of data across businesses worldwide. The surge in data generation is only going to continue. Foresighted enterprises are the ones who will be able to leverage this data for maximum profitability through data processing and handling techniques.