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Differentiating Between Data Lakes and Data Warehouses

Smart Data Collective

While there is a lot of discussion about the merits of data warehouses, not enough discussion centers around data lakes. We talked about enterprise data warehouses in the past, so let’s contrast them with data lakes. Both data warehouses and data lakes are used when storing big data.

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Multicloud data lake analytics with Amazon Athena

AWS Big Data

Many organizations operate data lakes spanning multiple cloud data stores. In these cases, you may want an integrated query layer to seamlessly run analytical queries across these diverse cloud stores and streamline your data analytics processes. This serves as the S3 data lake data for this post.

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Modernize your legacy databases with AWS data lakes, Part 2: Build a data lake using AWS DMS data on Apache Iceberg

AWS Big Data

This is part two of a three-part series where we show how to build a data lake on AWS using a modern data architecture. This post shows how to load data from a legacy database (SQL Server) into a transactional data lake ( Apache Iceberg ) using AWS Glue. Delete the bucket.

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Here’s Why Automation For Data Lakes Could Be Important

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Data Lakes are among the most complex and sophisticated data storage and processing facilities we have available to us today as human beings. Analytics Magazine notes that data lakes are among the most useful tools that an enterprise may have at its disposal when aiming to compete with competitors via innovation.

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Important Considerations When Migrating to a Data Lake

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Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 is based on Azure Blob storage and offers a suite of big data analytics features. If you don’t understand the concept, you might want to check out our previous article on the difference between data lakes and data warehouses. Determine your preparedness.

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7 Key Benefits of Proper Data Lake Ingestion

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Perhaps one of the biggest perks is scalability, which simply means that with good data lake ingestion a small business can begin to handle bigger data numbers. The reality is businesses that are collecting data will likely be doing so on several levels. Data Analytics Simplified. Proper Scalability.

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Choosing an open table format for your transactional data lake on AWS

AWS Big Data

A modern data architecture enables companies to ingest virtually any type of data through automated pipelines into a data lake, which provides highly durable and cost-effective object storage at petabyte or exabyte scale.

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