AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 29, 2024

To achieve this, they aimed to break down data silos and centralize data from various business units and countries into the BMW Cloud Data Hub (CDH). This led to inefficiencies in data governance and access control. It allows users to discover datasets, manage data assets, and consume data for their use cases.

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Today, Amazon Redshift is used by customers across all industries for a variety of use cases, including data warehouse migration and modernization, near real-time analytics, self-service analytics, data lake analytics, machine learning (ML), and data monetization.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 18, 2024

Over the years, organizations have invested in creating purpose-built, cloud-based data lakes that are siloed from one another. A major challenge is enabling cross-organization discovery and access to data across these multiple data lakes, each built on different technology stacks.

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Data Lake Publishing Metadata Data-driven 122

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.

Metadata 84

Metadata Data Lake Dashboards Interactive 84

AWS Big Data

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

We often see requests from customers who have started their data journey by building data lakes on Microsoft Azure, to extend access to the data to AWS services. In such scenarios, data engineers face challenges in connecting and extracting data from storage containers on Microsoft Azure.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Amazon Q generative SQL for Amazon Redshift uses generative AI to analyze user intent, query patterns, and schema metadata to identify common SQL query patterns directly within Amazon Redshift, accelerating the query authoring process for users and reducing the time required to derive actionable data insights.

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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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AWS Big Data

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

A modern data architecture is an evolutionary architecture pattern designed to integrate a data lake, data warehouse, and purpose-built stores with a unified governance model. The company wanted the ability to continue processing operational data in the secondary Region in the rare event of primary Region failure.

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DataKitchen

AUGUST 3, 2021

First-generation – expensive, proprietary enterprise data warehouse and business intelligence platforms maintained by a specialized team drowning in technical debt. Second-generation – gigantic, complex data lake maintained by a specialized team drowning in technical debt. Easy to report problems and receive updates on fixes.

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AWS Big Data

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

For many organizations, this centralized data store follows a data lake architecture. Although data lakes provide a centralized repository, making sense of this data and extracting valuable insights can be challenging.

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AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Data lakes are a popular choice for today’s organizations to store their data around their business activities. As a best practice of a data lake design, data should be immutable once stored. A data lake built on AWS uses Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) as its primary storage environment.

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Jet Global

JULY 2, 2019

To address the flood of data and the needs of enterprise businesses to store, sort, and analyze that data, a new storage solution has evolved: the data lake. What’s in a Data Lake? Data warehouses do a great job of standardizing data from disparate sources for analysis. Taking a Dip.

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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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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 5, 2023

Data Lakes have been around for well over a decade now, supporting the analytic operations of some of the largest world corporations. Such data volumes are not easy to move, migrate or modernize. The challenges of a monolithic data lake architecture Data lakes are, at a high level, single repositories of data at scale.

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Data Lake Metadata Cost-Benefit Data Warehouse 60

AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 4, 2024

In today’s data-driven world , organizations are constantly seeking efficient ways to process and analyze vast amounts of information across data lakes and warehouses. This post will showcase how this data can also be queried by other data teams using Amazon Athena. Verify that you have Python version 3.7

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Data Lake Metadata Insurance Data-driven 107

AWS Big Data

JANUARY 27, 2023

With a unified data catalog, you can quickly search datasets and figure out data schema, data format, and location. The AWS Glue Data Catalog provides a uniform repository where disparate systems can store and find metadata to keep track of data in data silos. Refer to Catalogs for more information.

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Data Lake Metadata Business Analysis Data-driven 67

Alation

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

When it was no longer a hard requirement that a physical data model be created upon the ingestion of data, there was a resulting drop in richness of the description and consistency of the data stored in Hadoop. You did not have to understand or prepare the data to get it into Hadoop, so people rarely did.

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AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Unstructured data is typically stored across siloed systems in varying formats, and generally not managed or governed with the same level of rigor as structured data. On the backend, the batch data engineering processes refreshing the enterprise data lake need to expand to ingest, transform, and manage unstructured data.

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Data Governance Unstructured Data Metadata Data Lake 110

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 23, 2022

Cloudera customers run some of the biggest data lakes on earth. These lakes power mission critical large scale data analytics, business intelligence (BI), and machine learning use cases, including enterprise data warehouses. On data warehouses and data lakes. Iterations of the lakehouse.

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Data Lake Data Warehouse Machine Learning Data-driven 98

AWS Big Data

AUGUST 16, 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. Iceberg captures metadata information on the state of datasets as they evolve and change over time. Choose Create.

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Data Lake Metadata Snapshot Management 86

erwin

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

To better understand and align data governance and enterprise architecture, let’s look at data at rest and data in motion and why they both have to be documented. Documenting data at rest involves looking at where data is stored, such as in databases, data lakes , data warehouses and flat files.

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Data Governance Enterprise Risk Data Lake 144

Cloudera

JUNE 18, 2022

Cloudera customers run some of the biggest data lakes on earth. These lakes power mission critical large scale data analytics, business intelligence (BI), and machine learning use cases, including enterprise data warehouses. On data warehouses and data lakes. Iterations of the lakehouse.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

We have seen a strong customer demand to expand its scope to cloud-based data lakes because data lakes are increasingly the enterprise solution for large-scale data initiatives due to their power and capabilities. Let’s say that this company is located in Europe and the data product must comply with the GDPR.

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Data Lake Management Metrics Data Warehouse 117

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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Data Lake Dashboards Cost-Benefit Data Warehouse 52

AWS Big Data

JUNE 25, 2024

This post is co-authored by Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Director of Product, Salesforce Data Cloud. In today’s data-driven business landscape, organizations collect a wealth of data across various touch points and unify it in a central data warehouse or a data lake to deliver business insights.

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Data Lake Cost-Benefit Data-driven Data Warehouse 112

Cloudera

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Those decentralization efforts appeared under different monikers through time, e.g., data marts versus data warehousing implementations (a popular architectural debate in the era of structured data) then enterprise-wide data lakes versus smaller, typically BU-Specific, “data ponds”.

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Metadata Cost-Benefit Enterprise Interactive 124

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

What’s changed since then, apart from Shih’s title, is Salesforce has rearchitected its underlying Data Cloud and Einstein AI framework to use an improved metadata framework, creating a new platform it calls Einstein 1.

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IT Metadata Data Lake Cost-Benefit 116

AWS Big Data

MARCH 5, 2025

Quick setup enables two default blueprints and creates the default environment profiles for the data lake and data warehouse default blueprints. You will then publish the data assets from these data sources. Add an AWS Glue data source to publish the new AWS Glue table. Review and choose Create.

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Analytics Publishing Metadata Sales 59

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 3, 2023

In the past, First Service Credit Union’s Chief data officer Ty Robbins struggled to integrate data from the legacy, non-relational, and often proprietary tabular databases on which many credit unions run. After moving its expensive, on-premise data lake to the cloud, Comcast created a three-tiered architecture.

Analytics 98

Analytics Data Lake Metadata Cost-Benefit 98

Cloudera

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The platform converges data cataloging, data ingestion, data profiling, data tagging, data discovery, and data exploration into a unified platform, driven by metadata. Modak Nabu automates repetitive tasks in the data preparation process and thus accelerates the data preparation by 4x.

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Data Lake Cost-Benefit Data-driven Dashboards 95

IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 4, 2023

A data lakehouse architecture combines the performance of data warehouses with the flexibility of data lakes, to address the challenges of today’s complex data landscape and scale AI. New insights and relationships are found in this combination. All of this supports the use of AI.

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Data Lake Metadata Data Warehouse Cost-Benefit 77

AWS Big Data

JANUARY 17, 2024

With Amazon EMR 6.15, we launched AWS Lake Formation based fine-grained access controls (FGAC) on Open Table Formats (OTFs), including Apache Hudi, Apache Iceberg, and Delta lake. Many large enterprise companies seek to use their transactional data lake to gain insights and improve decision-making.

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Data Lake Snapshot Big Data Data-driven 107

AWS Big Data

AUGUST 8, 2024

Today’s data lakes are expanding across lines of business operating in diverse landscapes and using various engines to process and analyze data. Traditionally, SQL views have been used to define and share filtered data sets that meet the requirements of these lines of business for easier consumption.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 7, 2023

A data hub contains data at multiple levels of granularity and is often not integrated. It differs from a data lake by offering data that is pre-validated and standardized, allowing for simpler consumption by users. Data hubs and data lakes can coexist in an organization, complementing each other.

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Analytics Data Warehouse Data Lake Metadata 79

AWS Big Data

APRIL 19, 2023

We split the solution into two primary components: generating Spark job metadata and running the SQL on Amazon EMR. The first component (metadata setup) consumes existing Hive job configurations and generates metadata such as number of parameters, number of actions (steps), and file formats. X Python 3.8 Amazon EMR 6.1

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Metadata Data Lake Testing Consulting 87

AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

AWS Lake Formation makes it straightforward to centrally govern, secure, and globally share data for analytics and machine learning (ML). It also delivers fine-grained data access control, so you can make sure users have access to the right data down to the row and column level. For this post, we use mybucket.

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Data Lake Metadata Testing Data Processing 84

AWS Big Data

JANUARY 31, 2023

We have collected some of the key talks and solutions on data governance, data mesh, and modern data architecture published and presented in AWS re:Invent 2022, and a few data lake solutions built by customers and AWS Partners for easy reference. Starting with Amazon EMR release 6.7.0,

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