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Data News — Week 23.12

Christophe Blefari

In small browser text areas you will be able to write Python, SQL or R code and orchestrate theses transformations with drag-n-drop. I'd have love to speak about tools offering to translate human langage to SQL like sequel.ai LinkedIn team decided to migrate to a lambda architecture and got 94% uplift in performance.

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How to Create Near Real-time Models With Just dbt + SQL

dbt Developer Hub

Lambda views are a simple and readily available solution that is tool agnostic and SQL based. What are lambda views? ​ The idea of lambda views comes from lambda architecture. The SQL in the lambda view is simple (just a union all ), but there’s a bit of work to get to the unioned model.

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An Exploration Of The Expectations, Ecosystem, and Realities Of Real-Time Data Applications

Data Engineering Podcast

Ascend users love its declarative pipelines, powerful SDK, elegant UI, and extensible plug-in architecture, as well as its support for Python, SQL, Scala, and Java. Ascend users love its declarative pipelines, powerful SDK, elegant UI, and extensible plug-in architecture, as well as its support for Python, SQL, Scala, and Java.

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Handling Bursty Traffic in Real-Time Analytics Applications

Rockset

However, these databases tend to sacrifice support for complex SQL queries at any scale. This query optimization is something that all SQL databases excel at and do automatically. Lambda Architecture: Too Many Compromises A decade ago, a multitiered database architecture called Lambda began to emerge.

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Apache Spark Use Cases & Applications

Knowledge Hut

It is also friendly for database developers as it provides Spark SQL which supports most of the ANSI SQL functionality. Multiple Language Support: Spark provides support for multiple programming languages like Scala, Java, Python, R and also Spark SQL which is very similar to SQL.

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Data Engineering Weekly #124

Data Engineering Weekly

The blog highlights that the job is not just writing SQL but providing a strategic business solution for an organization. [link] NYT: Day in the Life of a Senior Analyst in the Data and Insights Group NYT publishes an article on data in the life of a senior analyst.

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Aggregator Leaf Tailer: An Alternative to Lambda Architecture for Real-Time Analytics

Rockset

That meant a system that was sufficiently nimble and powerful to execute fast SQL queries on raw data, essentially performing any needed transformations as part of the query step, and not as part of a complex data pipeline. Most processing in the Lambda architecture happens in the pipeline and not at query time.