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

AltexSoft

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. Watch our video explaining how data engineering works.

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How Windward Built Real-Time Logistics Tracking and AI Insights for the Maritime Industry

Rockset

The Windward Maritime AI platform Lastly, Windward wanted to move their entire platform from batch-based data infrastructure to streaming. This transition can support new use cases that require a faster way to analyze events that was not needed until now. They used MongoDB as their metadata store to capture vessel and company data.

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An Engineering Guide to Data Creation - A Data Contract perspective - Part 1

Data Engineering Weekly

Data engineering starts to add value to the business by capturing events at each step of the business process. The events are then further enriched and analyzed to bring visibility to business operations. Architectural patterns for Data Creation There are three types of architecture patterns in data creation.

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Data Collection for Machine Learning: Steps, Methods, and Best Practices

AltexSoft

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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Data Lake vs Data Warehouse - Working Together in the Cloud

ProjectPro

This means that a data warehouse is a collection of technologies and components that are used to store data for some strategic use. Data is collected and stored in data warehouses from multiple sources to provide insights into business data. Data from data warehouses is queried using SQL.

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Hadoop vs Spark: Main Big Data Tools Explained

AltexSoft

HDFS master-slave structure. A HDFS Master Node, called a NameNode , keeps metadata with critical information about system files (like their names, locations, number of data blocks in the file, etc.) and keeps track of storage capacity, a volume of data being transferred, etc. Data management and monitoring options.

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Sqoop vs. Flume Battle of the Hadoop ETL tools

ProjectPro

Hadoop Sqoop and Hadoop Flume are the two tools in Hadoop which is used to gather data from different sources and load them into HDFS. Sqoop in Hadoop is mostly used to extract structured data from databases like Teradata, Oracle, etc., They enable the connection of various data sources to the Hadoop environment.