AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Amazon Redshift enables you to efficiently query and retrieve structured and semi-structured data from open format files in Amazon S3 data lake without having to load the data into Amazon Redshift tables. Amazon Redshift extends SQL capabilities to your data lake, enabling you to run analytical queries.

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AWS Big Data

AUGUST 15, 2024

Traditional data management—wherein each business unit ingests raw data in separate data lakes or warehouses—hinders visibility and cross-functional analysis. A data mesh framework empowers business units with data ownership and facilitates seamless sharing.

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AWS Big Data

JUNE 10, 2024

Organizations have multiple Hive data warehouses across EMR clusters, where the metadata gets generated. To address this challenge, organizations can deploy a data mesh using AWS Lake Formation that connects the multiple EMR clusters. An entity can act both as a producer of data assets and as a consumer of data assets.

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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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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

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Open table formats are emerging in the rapidly evolving domain of big data management, fundamentally altering the landscape of data storage and analysis. By providing a standardized framework for data representation, open table formats break down data silos, enhance data quality, and accelerate analytics at scale.

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 4, 2024

These nodes can implement analytical platforms like data lake houses, data warehouses, or data marts, all united by producing data products. The Institutional Data & AI platform adopts a federated approach to data while centralizing the metadata to facilitate simpler discovery and sharing of data products.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 20, 2023

With data becoming the driving force behind many industries today, having a modern data architecture is pivotal for organizations to be successful. In this post, we describe Orca’s journey building a transactional data lake using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Apache Iceberg, and AWS Analytics.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The Airflow REST API facilitates a wide range of use cases, from centralizing and automating administrative tasks to building event-driven, data-aware data pipelines. In this post, we discuss the enhancement and present several use cases that the enhancement unlocks for your Amazon MWAA environment.

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AWS Big Data

JUNE 15, 2023

In today’s world, customers manage vast amounts of data in their Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data lakes, which requires convoluted data pipelines to continuously understand the changes in the data layout and make them available to consuming systems.

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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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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 21, 2024

However, enterprises often encounter challenges with data silos, insufficient access controls, poor governance, and quality issues. Embracing data as a product is the key to address these challenges and foster a data-driven culture. Amazon Athena is used to query, and explore the data.

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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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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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 9, 2022

All this data arrives by the terabyte, and a data management platform can help marketers make sense of it all. Marketing-focused or not, DMPs excel at negotiating with a wide array of databases, data lakes, or data warehouses, ingesting their streams of data and then cleaning, sorting, and unifying the information therein.

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Cloudera

APRIL 22, 2021

Apache Ozone is one of the major innovations introduced in CDP, which provides the next generation storage architecture for Big Data applications, where data blocks are organized in storage containers for larger scale and to handle small objects. Collects and aggregates metadata from components and present cluster state.

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erwin

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The erwin solutions that use Microsoft’s CDM are: erwin Data Modeler : erwin DM automatically transforms the CDM into a graphical model, complete with business-data constructs and semantic metadata, to feed your existing data-source models and new database designs – regardless of the technology upon which these structures are deployed.

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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. sql_path SQL file name.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 5, 2025

This solution presents three Amazon DataZone user personas as: Data administrators : Account owners in both producer and consumer AWS accounts. The data administrators are responsible for creating Amazon DataZone domains, configuring domain associations, and accepting domain associations within the Amazon DataZone domain.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Amazon Redshift is a popular cloud data warehouse, offering a fully managed cloud-based service that seamlessly integrates with an organization’s Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data lake, real-time streams, machine learning (ML) workflows, transactional workflows, and much more—all while providing up to 7.9x

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Cloudera

JUNE 25, 2021

This blog post outlines detailed step by step instructions to perform Hive Replication from an on-prem CDH cluster to a CDP Public Cloud Data Lake. CDP Data Lake cluster versions – CM 7.4.0, Pre-Check: Data Lake Cluster. Understanding Ranger Policies in Data Lake Cluster. Runtime 7.2.8.

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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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AWS Big Data

JUNE 5, 2024

The integration is new way for customers to query operational logs in Amazon S3 and Amazon S3-based data lakes without needing to switch between tools to analyze operational data. Amazon S3 is an object storage service offering industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. or higher.

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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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Cloudera

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Within the context of a data mesh architecture, I will present industry settings / use cases where the particular architecture is relevant and highlight the business value that it delivers against business and technology areas. Data and Metadata: Data inputs and data outputs produced based on the application logic.

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Cloudera

JANUARY 21, 2021

With CDW, as an integrated service of CDP, your line of business gets immediate resources needed for faster application launches and expedited data access, all while protecting the company’s multi-year investment in centralized data management, security, and governance. Proprietary file formats mean no one else is invited in!

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 1, 2024

One of the bank’s key challenges related to strict cybersecurity requirements is to implement field level encryption for personally identifiable information (PII), Payment Card Industry (PCI), and data that is classified as high privacy risk (HPR). Only users with required permissions are allowed to access data in clear text.

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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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AWS Big Data

JULY 8, 2024

Introduction to OpenLineage compatible data lineage The need to capture data lineage consistently across various analytical services and combine them into a unified object model is key in uncovering insights from the lineage artifact. Now let’s harvest the lineage metadata using CloudShell. Choose Run.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 3, 2023

Terminology Let’s first discuss some of the terminology used in this post: Research data lake on Amazon S3 – A data lake is a large, centralized repository that allows you to manage all your structured and unstructured data at any scale. This is where the tagging feature in Apache Iceberg comes in handy.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Athena provides a simplified, flexible way to analyze petabytes of data where it lives. You can analyze data or build applications from an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data lake and 30 data sources, including on-premises data sources or other cloud systems using SQL or Python.

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Cloudera

JUNE 6, 2019

While this approach provides isolation, it creates another significant challenge: duplication of data, metadata, and security policies, or ‘split-brain’ data lake. Now the admins need to synchronize multiple copies of the data and metadata and ensure that users across the many clusters are not viewing stale information.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 29, 2024

Amazon DataZone is a powerful data management service that empowers data engineers, data scientists, product managers, analysts, and business users to seamlessly catalog, discover, analyze, and govern data across organizational boundaries, AWS accounts, data lakes, and data warehouses. Choose Next.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Amazon Redshift is a popular cloud data warehouse, offering a fully managed cloud-based service that seamlessly integrates with an organization’s Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data lake, real-time streams, machine learning (ML) workflows, transactional workflows, and much more—all while providing up to 7.9x

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 19, 2024

From establishing an enterprise-wide data inventory and improving data discoverability, to enabling decentralized data sharing and governance, Amazon DataZone has been a game changer for HEMA. The integration of Databricks Delta tables into Amazon DataZone is done using the AWS Glue Data Catalog.

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AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

In a dimensional model, a transaction record is divided either into facts (often numerical), additive transactional data, or dimensions (referential information that gives context to the facts). Although data lakes resemble data vaults, a data vault provides more features of a data warehouse.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

All this data arrives by the terabyte, and a data management platform can help marketers make sense of it all. DMPs excel at negotiating with a wide array of databases, data lakes, or data warehouses, ingesting their streams of data and then cleaning, sorting, and unifying the information therein.

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