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Run Apache XTable in AWS Lambda for background conversion of open table formats

AWS Big Data

Initially, data warehouses were the go-to solution for structured data and analytical workloads but were limited by proprietary storage formats and their inability to handle unstructured data. Eventually, transactional data lakes emerged to add transactional consistency and performance of a data warehouse to the data lake.

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Build a high-performance quant research platform with Apache Iceberg

AWS Big Data

Our experiments are based on real-world historical full order book data, provided by our partner CryptoStruct , and compare the trade-offs between these choices, focusing on performance, cost, and quant developer productivity. Data management is the foundation of quantitative research.

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Bridging the gap between mainframe data and hybrid cloud environments

CIO Business Intelligence

A high hurdle many enterprises have yet to overcome is accessing mainframe data via the cloud. Mainframes hold an enormous amount of critical and sensitive business data including transactional information, healthcare records, customer data, and inventory metrics. Four key challenges prevent them from doing so: 1.

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How Cloudinary transformed their petabyte scale streaming data lake with Apache Iceberg and AWS Analytics

AWS Big Data

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.

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Use Apache Iceberg in a data lake to support incremental data processing

AWS Big Data

Apache Iceberg is an open table format for very large analytic datasets, which captures metadata information on the state of datasets as they evolve and change over time. Iceberg has become very popular for its support for ACID transactions in data lakes and features like schema and partition evolution, time travel, and rollback.

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Use Apache Iceberg in your data lake with Amazon S3, AWS Glue, and Snowflake

AWS Big Data

licensed, 100% open-source data table format that helps simplify data processing on large datasets stored in data lakes. Data engineers use Apache Iceberg because it’s fast, efficient, and reliable at any scale and keeps records of how datasets change over time.

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How EUROGATE established a data mesh architecture using Amazon DataZone

AWS Big Data

An extract, transform, and load (ETL) process using AWS Glue is triggered once a day to extract the required data and transform it into the required format and quality, following the data product principle of data mesh architectures. From here, the metadata is published to Amazon DataZone by using AWS Glue Data Catalog.

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