AWS Big Data

MARCH 10, 2023

Since the deluge of big data over a decade ago, many organizations have learned to build applications to process and analyze petabytes of data. Data lakes have served as a central repository to store structured and unstructured data at any scale and in various formats.

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Jet Global

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

For more sophisticated multidimensional reporting functions, however, a more advanced approach to staging data is required. The Data Warehouse Approach. Data warehouses gained momentum back in the early 1990s as companies dealing with growing volumes of data were seeking ways to make analytics faster and more accessible.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 2, 2023

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. and later supports the Apache Iceberg framework for data lakes. AWS Glue 3.0 The following diagram illustrates the solution architecture.

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Sisense

APRIL 9, 2021

Until then though, they don’t necessarily want to spend the time and resources necessary to create a schema to house this data in a traditional data warehouse. Instead, businesses are increasingly turning to data lakes to store massive amounts of unstructured data. Structured versus unstructured data.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

OCTOBER 31, 2024

I previously wrote about the importance of open table formats to the evolution of data lakes into data lakehouses. The concept of the data lake was initially proposed as a single environment where data could be combined from multiple sources to be stored and processed to enable analysis by multiple users for multiple purposes.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 31, 2024

In the current industry landscape, data lakes have become a cornerstone of modern data architecture, serving as repositories for vast amounts of structured and unstructured data. Maintaining data consistency and integrity across distributed data lakes is crucial for decision-making and analytics.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2022

But the data repository options that have been around for a while tend to fall short in their ability to serve as the foundation for big data analytics powered by AI. Traditional data warehouses, for example, support datasets from multiple sources but require a consistent data structure. Meet the data lakehouse.

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AWS Big Data

JUNE 9, 2023

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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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 18, 2022

Previously, Walgreens was attempting to perform that task with its data lake but faced two significant obstacles: cost and time. Those challenges are well-known to many organizations as they have sought to obtain analytical knowledge from their vast amounts of data. Lakehouses redeem the failures of some data lakes.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Today, more than 90% of its applications run in the cloud, with most of its data is housed and analyzed in a homegrown enterprise data warehouse. Like many CIOs, Carhartt’s top digital leader is aware that data is the key to making advanced technologies work. Today, we backflush our data lake through our data warehouse.

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Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The application presents a massive volume of unstructured data through a graphical or programming interface using the analytical abilities of business intelligence technology to provide instant insight. Interactive analytics applications present vast volumes of unstructured data at scale to provide instant insights.

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AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Analytics remained one of the key focus areas this year, with significant updates and innovations aimed at helping businesses harness their data more efficiently and accelerate insights. From enhancing data lakes to empowering AI-driven analytics, AWS unveiled new tools and services that are set to shape the future of data and analytics.

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Sisense

APRIL 26, 2020

Different types of information are more suited to being stored in a structured or unstructured format. Read on to explore more about structured vs unstructured data, why the difference between structured and unstructured data matters, and how cloud data warehouses deal with them both.

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AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Data governance is a critical building block across all these approaches, and we see two emerging areas of focus. First, many LLM use cases rely on enterprise knowledge that needs to be drawn from unstructured data such as documents, transcripts, and images, in addition to structured data from data warehouses.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 29, 2022

Azure Data Factory. Azure Data Explorer is used to store and query data in services such as Microsoft Purview, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Sentinel, and Log Analytics in Azure Monitor. Azure Data Lake Analytics.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2024

Currently, a handful of startups offer “reverse” extract, transform, and load (ETL), in which they copy data from a customer’s data warehouse or data platform back into systems of engagement where business users do their work. Sharing Customer 360 insights back without data replication.

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AWS Big Data

JUNE 26, 2024

New feature: Custom AWS service blueprints Previously, Amazon DataZone provided default blueprints that created AWS resources required for data lake, data warehouse, and machine learning use cases. You can build projects and subscribe to both unstructured and structured data assets within the Amazon DataZone portal.

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AWS Big Data

APRIL 19, 2023

In this post, we look at three key challenges that customers face with growing data and how a modern data warehouse and analytics system like Amazon Redshift can meet these challenges across industries and segments. This performance innovation allows Nasdaq to have a multi-use data lake between teams.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

In today’s world, data warehouses are a critical component of any organization’s technology ecosystem. The rise of cloud has allowed data warehouses to provide new capabilities such as cost-effective data storage at petabyte scale, highly scalable compute and storage, pay-as-you-go pricing and fully managed service delivery.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2022

The data lakehouse is a relatively new data architecture concept, first championed by Cloudera, which offers both storage and analytics capabilities as part of the same solution, in contrast to the concepts for data lake and data warehouse which, respectively, store data in native format, and structured data, often in SQL format.

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Sisense

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Data warehouse vs. databases Traditional vs. Cloud Explained Cloud data warehouses in your data stack A data-driven future powered by the cloud. We live in a world of data: There’s more of it than ever before, in a ceaselessly expanding array of forms and locations. Data warehouse vs. databases.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 24, 2022

The Intelligent Data Management Cloud for Financial Services, like Informatica’s other industry-focused platforms, combines vertical-based accelerators with the company’s suite of machine learning tools to help with challenges around unstructured data and quick data-based decision making. .

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Timo Elliott

JANUARY 3, 2022

It’s stored in corporate data warehouses, data lakes, and a myriad of other locations – and while some of it is put to good use, it’s estimated that around 73% of this data remains unexplored. In this way, you can turn dark data into insights and help drive business improvements. Learn More.

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AWS Big Data

MAY 28, 2024

Large language models (LLMs) such as Anthropic Claude and Amazon Titan have the potential to drive automation across various business processes by processing both structured and unstructured data. Redshift Serverless is a fully functional data warehouse holding data tables maintained in real time.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 29, 2024

Modernizing data operations CIOs like Woodring know well that the quality of an AI model depends in large part on the quality of the data involved — and how that data is injected from databases, data warehouses, cloud data lakes, and the like into large language models.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The Basel, Switzerland-based company, which operates in more than 100 countries, has petabytes of data, including highly structured customer data, data about treatments and lab requests, operational data, and a massive, growing volume of unstructured data, particularly imaging data.

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Sisense

MAY 28, 2019

Two orthogonal approaches to data analytics have developed in this decade of BI: 1. Operating “in-data” to enable the direct query of unstructured data lakes, providing a visualization layer on top of them. The allure of operationalizing BI in-data is its perceived simplicity.

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erwin

AUGUST 15, 2022

For NoSQL, data lakes, and data lake houses—data modeling of both structured and unstructured data is somewhat novel and thorny. This blog is an introduction to some advanced NoSQL and data lake database design techniques (while avoiding common pitfalls) is noteworthy. Data Modeling.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Today, we are pleased to announce new AWS Glue connectors for Azure Blob Storage and Azure Data Lake Storage that allow you to move data bi-directionally between Azure Blob Storage, Azure Data Lake Storage, and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). option("header","true").load("wasbs://yourblob@youraccountname.blob.core.windows.net/loadingtest-input/100mb")

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Data architect Armando Vázquez identifies eight common types of data architects: Enterprise data architect: These data architects oversee an organization’s overall data architecture, defining data architecture strategy and designing and implementing architectures.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 7, 2024

At the same time, they need to optimize operational costs to unlock the value of this data for timely insights and do so with a consistent performance. With this massive data growth, data proliferation across your data stores, data warehouse, and data lakes can become equally challenging.

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Sisense

JULY 22, 2020

The trend has been towards using cloud-based applications and tools for different functions, such as Salesforce for sales, Marketo for marketing automation, and large-scale data storage like AWS or data lakes such as Amazon S3 , Hadoop and Microsoft Azure. Sisense provides instant access to your cloud data warehouses.

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AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Data warehouses play a vital role in healthcare decision-making and serve as a repository of historical data. A healthcare data warehouse can be a single source of truth for clinical quality control systems. What is a dimensional data model? What is a dimensional data model? What is a data vault?

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Cloudera

MARCH 17, 2023

When implementing a data lakehouse, the table format is a critical piece because it acts as an abstraction layer, making it easy to access all the structured, unstructured data in the lakehouse by any engine or tool, concurrently. Some of the popular table formats are Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, Hudi, and Hive ACID.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 25, 2024

This data store provides your organization with the holistic customer records view that is needed for operational efficiency of RAG-based generative AI applications. For building such a data store, an unstructured data store would be best. This is typically unstructured data and is updated in a non-incremental fashion.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2025

Comparison of modern data architectures : Architecture Definition Strengths Weaknesses Best used when Data warehouse Centralized, structured and curated data repository. Inflexible schema, poor for unstructured or real-time data. Data lake Raw storage for all types of structured and unstructured data.

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AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In this post, we show how Ruparupa implemented an incrementally updated data lake to get insights into their business using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), AWS Glue , Apache Hudi , and Amazon QuickSight. An AWS Glue ETL job, using the Apache Hudi connector, updates the S3 data lake hourly with incremental data.

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