Data Virtualization

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutes While cleaning up our archive recently, I found an old article published in 1976 about data dictionary/directory systems (DD/DS). Nowadays, we no longer use the term DD/DS, but “data catalog” or simply “metadata system”. It was written by L.

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Cloudera

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Each of these trends claim to be complete models for their data architectures to solve the “everything everywhere all at once” problem. Data teams are confused as to whether they should get on the bandwagon of just one of these trends or pick a combination. First, we describe how data mesh and data fabric could be related.

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erwin

JANUARY 9, 2020

That’s because it’s the best way to visualize metadata , and metadata is now the heart of enterprise data management and data governance/ intelligence efforts. So here’s why data modeling is so critical to data governance. erwin Data Modeler: Where the Magic Happens.

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Cloudera

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Over the past decade, the successful deployment of large scale data platforms at our customers has acted as a big data flywheel driving demand to bring in even more data, apply more sophisticated analytics, and on-board many new data practitioners from business analysts to data scientists.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Over the years, data lakes on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) have become the default repository for enterprise data and are a common choice for a large set of users who query data for a variety of analytics and machine leaning use cases. Analytics use cases on data lakes are always evolving.

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TDAN

MAY 31, 2022

The main goal of creating an enterprise data fabric is not new. It is the ability to deliver the right data at the right time, in the right shape, and to the right data consumer, irrespective of how and where it is stored. Data fabric is the common “net” that stitches integrated data from multiple data […].

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 5, 2023

Several factors determine the quality of your enterprise data like accuracy, completeness, consistency, to name a few. But there’s another factor of data quality that doesn’t get the recognition it deserves: your data architecture. How the right data architecture improves data quality.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The landscape of big data management has been transformed by the rising popularity of open table formats such as Apache Iceberg, Apache Hudi, and Linux Foundation Delta Lake. These formats, designed to address the limitations of traditional data storage systems, have become essential in modern data architectures.

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Alation

AUGUST 18, 2022

How do you approach data lineage? We all know that data lineage is a complex and challenging topic. In this blog, I am drilling into something I’ve been thinking about and studying for a long time: fundamental approaches to lineage creation and maintenance. What Is Data Lineage Creation & Maintenance?

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erwin

OCTOBER 16, 2020

There’s a common denominator in what they’re all missing, and that is data intelligence. The erwin EDGE enables organizations to see how data flows through and impacts all their business, technology and data architectures. Parts of this blog are excerpted from my keynote on day No.

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erwin

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Metadata is an important part of data governance, and as a result, most nascent data governance programs are rife with project plans for assessing and documenting metadata. But in many scenarios, it seems that the underlying driver of metadata collection projects is that it’s just something you do for data governance.

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AWS Big Data

JUNE 7, 2023

This is a guest blog post co-written with Sumesh M R from Cargotec and Tero Karttunen from Knowit Finland. They chose AWS Glue as their preferred data integration tool due to its serverless nature, low maintenance, ability to control compute resources in advance, and scale when needed.

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Cloudera

MAY 2, 2022

But increasingly at Cloudera, our clients are looking for a hybrid cloud architecture in order to manage compliance requirements. This is not just to implement specific governance rules — such as tagging, metadata management, access controls, or anonymization — but to prepare for the potential for rules to change in the future. .

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Cloudera

JUNE 7, 2022

Companies can now capitalize on the value in all their data, by delivering a hybrid data platform for modern data architectures with data anywhere. Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) is designed to address the critical requirements for modern data architectures today and tomorrow.

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AWS Big Data

JUNE 10, 2024

In this blog post, we dive into different data aspects and how Cloudinary breaks the two concerns of vendor locking and cost efficient data analytics by using Apache Iceberg, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3 ), Amazon Athena , Amazon EMR , and AWS Glue. This concept makes Iceberg extremely versatile. SparkActions.get().expireSnapshots(iceTable).expireOlderThan(TimeUnit.DAYS.toMillis(7)).execute()

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erwin

JULY 12, 2019

Modern, strategic data governance , which involves both IT and the business, enables organizations to plan and document how they will discover and understand their data within context, track its physical existence and lineage, and maximize its security, quality and value. Five Steps to GDPR/CCPA Compliance. How erwin Can Help.

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DataKitchen

OCTOBER 11, 2021

First, you must understand the existing challenges of the data team, including the data architecture and end-to-end toolchain. Monitoring Job Metadata. Monitoring and tracking is an essential feature that many data teams are looking to add to their pipelines. Second, you must establish a definition of “done.”

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Cloudera

MARCH 23, 2022

In fact, we recently announced the integration with our cloud ecosystem bringing the benefits of Iceberg to enterprises as they make their journey to the public cloud, and as they adopt more converged architectures like the Lakehouse. 1: Multi-function analytics . 3: Open Performance.

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erwin

DECEMBER 6, 2019

As a foundational component of enterprise data management, DG would reside in such a group. Enterprise Data Management Methodology : DG is foundational to enterprise data management. metadata management, enterprise data architecture, data quality management), DG will be a struggle.

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AWS Big Data

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Customers want to know how their data is being accessed, when it is being accessed, and who is accessing it. With exponential growth in data volume, centralized monitoring becomes challenging. It is also crucial to audit granular data access for security and compliance needs.

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erwin

MAY 13, 2020

The role of data modeling (DM) has expanded to support enterprise data management, including data governance and intelligence efforts. Metadata management is the key to managing and governing your data and drawing intelligence from it. Types of Data Models: Conceptual, Logical and Physical.

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Cloudera

OCTOBER 23, 2024

In August, we wrote about how in a future where distributed data architectures are inevitable, unifying and managing operational and business metadata is critical to successfully maximizing the value of data, analytics, and AI.

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erwin

MAY 31, 2019

The typical notion is that enterprise architects and data (and metadata) architects are in opposite corners. At Avydium , we believe there’s an important middle ground where different architecture disciplines coexist, including enterprise, solution, application, data, metadata and technical architectures.

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erwin

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

With complex data architectures and systems within so many organizations, tracking data in motion and data at rest is daunting to say the least. Harvesting the data through automation seamlessly removes ambiguity and speeds up the processing time-to-market capabilities.

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IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The journey starts with having a multimodal data governance framework that is underpinned by a robust data architecture like data fabric. To understand how a data fabric helps maintain compliance to privacy regulations, it’s helpful to look at some essential elements of that single pane of glass.

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Cloudera

JUNE 30, 2022

With Cloudera’s vision of hybrid data , enterprises adopting an open data lakehouse can easily get application interoperability and portability to and from on premises environments and any public cloud without worrying about data scaling. Why integrate Apache Iceberg with Cloudera Data Platform?

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Cloudera

DECEMBER 3, 2024

REST Catalog Value Proposition It provides open, metastore-agnostic APIs for Iceberg metadata operations, dramatically simplifying the Iceberg client and metastore/engine integration. It provides real time metadata access by directly integrating with the Iceberg-compatible metastore. You will see the 2 carrier records in the table.

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 27, 2022

Data fabric and data mesh are emerging data management concepts that are meant to address the organizational change and complexities of understanding, governing and working with enterprise data in a hybrid multicloud ecosystem. The good news is that both data architecture concepts are complimentary.

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Ontotext

APRIL 15, 2020

Ontotext’s knowledge graph technology is at the core of Cochrane’s data architecture developed by our partners from Data Language. Here, GraphDB is used for storing the ontology models, the vocabulary, the content metadata and the graphs from the PICO ontology.

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Cloudera

JULY 19, 2023

It is a replicated, highly-available service that is responsible for managing the metadata for all objects stored in Ozone. As Ozone scales to exabytes of data, it is important to ensure that Ozone Manager can perform at scale. The hardware specifications are included at the end of this blog.

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 10, 2023

A well-designed data architecture should support business intelligence and analysis, automation, and AI—all of which can help organizations to quickly seize market opportunities, build customer value, drive major efficiencies, and respond to risks such as supply chain disruptions.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 18, 2024

The current method is largely manual, relying on emails and general communication, which not only increases overhead but also varies from one use case to another in terms of data governance. Data domain producers publish data assets using datasource run to Amazon DataZone in the Central Governance account.

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Cloudera

DECEMBER 6, 2024

The AI Forecast: Data and AI in the Cloud Era , sponsored by Cloudera, aims to take an objective look at the impact of AI on business, industry, and the world at large. AI is only as successful as the data behind it. LLM precision is good, not great, right now Paul: I wanted to chat about this notion of precision data with you.

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AWS Big Data

AUGUST 31, 2023

Iceberg stores the metadata pointer for all the metadata files. When a SELECT query is reading an Iceberg table, the query engine first goes to the Iceberg catalog, then retrieves the entry of the location of the latest metadata file, as shown in the following diagram. In this post, we use Athena to convert the data.

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Ontotext

JANUARY 10, 2024

Limiting growth by (data integration) complexity Most operational IT systems in an enterprise have been developed to serve a single business function and they use the simplest possible model for this. A slightly different angle to the same problem is discussed in a recent Ontotext blog post. So, they become very data-driven.

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Sisense

JULY 6, 2020

We live in a world of data: there’s more of it than ever before, in a ceaselessly expanding array of forms and locations. Dealing with Data is your window into the ways Data Teams are tackling the challenges of this new world to help their companies and their customers thrive.

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IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 24, 2022

Remote runtime data integration as-a-service execution capabilities for on-premises and multi-cloud execution. Multi-directional data movement topology with high volume and low-latency integration. Support for data governance. Metadata exchange with third party metadata management and governance tools.

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