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Unstructured Data: Examples, Tools, Techniques, and Best Practices

AltexSoft

In today’s data-driven world, organizations amass vast amounts of information that can unlock significant insights and inform decision-making. A staggering 80 percent of this digital treasure trove is unstructured data, which lacks a pre-defined format or organization. What is unstructured data?

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The Future of Database Management in 2023

Knowledge Hut

NoSQL Databases NoSQL databases are non-relational databases (that do not store data in rows or columns) more effective than conventional relational databases (databases that store information in a tabular format) in handling unstructured and semi-structured data.

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Data Warehouse vs Data Lake vs Data Lakehouse: Definitions, Similarities, and Differences

Monte Carlo

Understanding data warehouses A data warehouse is a consolidated storage unit and processing hub for your data. Teams using a data warehouse usually leverage SQL queries for analytics use cases. This same structure aids in maintaining data quality and simplifies how users interact with and understand the data.

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Top Data Lake Vendors (Quick Reference Guide)

Monte Carlo

AWS is one of the most popular data lake vendors. AWS Lake Formation offers an alternative for data teams looking for a more structured data lake or data lakehouse solution. This is a lot of work and for most companies, it takes them several months to set up a data lake.

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Google BigQuery: A Game-Changing Data Warehousing Solution

ProjectPro

Since its public release in 2011, BigQuery has been marketed as a unique analytics cloud data warehouse tool that requires no virtual machines or hardware resources. BigQuery is a highly scalable data warehouse platform with a built-in query engine offered by Google Cloud Platform. What is Google BigQuery Used for?

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Data Pipeline Architecture Explained: 6 Diagrams and Best Practices

Monte Carlo

Amazon S3 – An object storage service for structured and unstructured data, S3 gives you the compute resources to build a data lake from scratch. Data transformation dbt – Short for data build tool, is the open source leader for transforming data once it’s loaded into your warehouse.

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The Good and the Bad of Databricks Lakehouse Platform

AltexSoft

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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