AWS Big Data

JUNE 10, 2024

A modern data strategy redefines and enables sharing data across the enterprise and allows for both reading and writing of a singular instance of the data using an open table format. When evolving such a partition definition, the data in the table prior to the change is unaffected, as is its metadata.

Data Lake 122

Data Lake Metadata Snapshot Analytics 122

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.

Data Lake 89

Data Lake Sales Metadata Machine Learning 89

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.

Data Lake 125

Data Lake Metadata Statistics Optimization 125

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.

Data Lake 82

Data Lake Data Warehouse Data-driven Optimization 82

AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Under the hood, UniForm generates Iceberg metadata files (including metadata and manifest files) that are required for Iceberg clients to access the underlying data files in Delta Lake tables. Both Delta Lake and Iceberg metadata files reference the same data files.

Metadata 111

Metadata Data Warehouse Big Data Data Lake 111

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.

Data Lake 105

Data Lake Statistics Broadcasting Optimization 105

AWS Big Data

AUGUST 31, 2023

Amazon Redshift enables you to directly access data stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) using SQL queries and join data across your data warehouse and data lake. With Amazon Redshift, you can query the data in your S3 data lake using a central AWS Glue metastore from your Redshift data warehouse.

Data Lake 108

Data Lake Data Warehouse Metadata Data Architecture 108

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2025

I aim to outline pragmatic strategies to elevate data quality into an enterprise-wide capability. We also examine how centralized, hybrid and decentralized data architectures support scalable, trustworthy ecosystems. This challenge remains deceptively overlooked despite its profound impact on strategy and execution.

Data Quality 102

Data Quality Data-driven Key Performance Indicator Metadata 102

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.

Data Lake 116

Data Lake Sales Data Warehouse Snapshot 116

AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Amazon DataZone now launched authentication supports through the Amazon Athena JDBC driver, allowing data users to seamlessly query their subscribed data lake assets via popular business intelligence (BI) and analytics tools like Tableau, Power BI, Excel, SQL Workbench, DBeaver, and more.

Visualization 116

Visualization Data Lake Testing Data Governance 116

AWS Big Data

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Organizations are increasingly using a multi-cloud strategy to run their production workloads. 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. For this post, we use the Shared Key authentication method.

Data Lake 107

Data Lake Metadata Management Software 107

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.

Data Lake 104

Data Lake Data Processing Metadata Snapshot 104

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.

Snapshot 84

Snapshot Metadata Data Lake Optimization 84

AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 4, 2024

This post explores how the shift to a data product mindset is being implemented, the challenges faced, and the early wins that are shaping the future of data management in the Institutional Division. Divisions decide how many domains to have within their node; some may have one, others many.

Metadata 94

Metadata Data Governance Data Quality Data-driven 94

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. The process creates a JSON file with the original_content and summary fields.

Data Lake 101

Data Lake Cost-Benefit Unstructured Data Modeling 101

AWS Big Data

MAY 24, 2023

When you build your transactional data lake using Apache Iceberg to solve your functional use cases, you need to focus on operational use cases for your S3 data lake to optimize the production environment. availability. You still need to set appropriate EMRFS retries to provide additional resiliency.

Data Lake 92

Data Lake Snapshot Metadata Optimization 92

erwin

JULY 17, 2019

Having a clearly defined digital transformation strategy is an essential best practice for successful digital transformation. But what makes a viable digital transformation strategy? Constructing A Digital Transformation Strategy: Data Enablement. With automation, data quality is systemically assured.

Digital Transformation 98

Digital Transformation Strategy Metadata Data-driven 98

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.

Data Lake 91

Data Lake Metadata Testing Data Warehouse 91

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.

Data Lake 94

Data Lake Analytics Snapshot Data Quality 94

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.

Analytics 59

Analytics Data Lake Metadata Data Warehouse 59

AWS Big Data

MARCH 4, 2024

As enterprises collect increasing amounts of data from various sources, the structure and organization of that data often need to change over time to meet evolving analytical needs. Schema evolution enables adding, deleting, renaming, or modifying columns without needing to rewrite existing data.

Snapshot 124

Snapshot Data Lake Metadata Recreation/Entertainment 124

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.

Data Lake 130

Data Lake Unstructured Data Data Warehouse Software 130

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. To achieve this, they plan to use machine learning (ML) models to extract insights from data.

Sales 105

Sales Data-driven Data Processing Key Performance Indicator 105

AWS Big Data

JULY 21, 2023

Data-driven organizations treat data as an asset and use it across different lines of business (LOBs) to drive timely insights and better business decisions. This leads to having data across many instances of data warehouses and data lakes using a modern data architecture in separate AWS accounts.

Data Lake 93

Data Lake Data Warehouse Marketing Management 93

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.

Data Lake 60

Data Lake Metadata Cost-Benefit Data Warehouse 60

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2022

However, they do contain effective data management, organization, and integrity capabilities. As a result, users can easily find what they need, and organizations avoid the operational and cost burdens of storing unneeded or duplicate data copies. Warehouse, data lake convergence. Meet the data lakehouse.

Data Lake 119

Data Lake Unstructured Data Data Warehouse Big Data 119

erwin

OCTOBER 8, 2020

These tools range from enterprise service bus (ESB) products, data integration tools; extract, transform and load (ETL) tools, procedural code, application program interfaces (APIs), file transfer protocol (FTP) processes, and even business intelligence (BI) reports that further aggregate and transform data.

Data Governance 145

Data Governance Metadata Testing Data Lake 145

AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 25, 2023

But most important of all, the assumed dormant value in the unstructured data is a question mark, which can only be answered after these sophisticated techniques have been applied. Therefore, there is a need to being able to analyze and extract value from the data economically and flexibly. The solution integrates data in three tiers.

Unstructured Data 129

Unstructured Data Metadata Management Analytics 129

AWS Big Data

JANUARY 24, 2024

AWS-powered data lakes, supported by the unmatched availability of Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), can handle the scale, agility, and flexibility required to combine different data and analytics approaches. It will never remove files that are still required by a non-expired snapshot.

Snapshot 115

Snapshot Data Lake Metadata Optimization 115

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.

Data Lake 125

Data Lake Analytics Dashboards Metrics 125

AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Data is your generative AI differentiator, and a successful generative AI implementation depends on a robust data strategy incorporating a comprehensive data governance approach. As part of the transformation, the objects need to be treated to ensure data privacy (for example, PII redaction).

Data Governance 110

Data Governance Unstructured Data Metadata Data Lake 110

AWS Big Data

MARCH 26, 2024

A Gartner Marketing survey found only 14% of organizations have successfully implemented a C360 solution, due to lack of consensus on what a 360-degree view means, challenges with data quality, and lack of cross-functional governance structure for customer data. Then, you transform this data into a concise format.

Data Strategy 78

Data Strategy Strategy Data Warehouse Prescriptive Analytics 78

AWS Big Data

MAY 7, 2024

Amazon DataZone allows you to simply and securely govern end-to-end data assets stored in your Amazon Redshift data warehouses or data lakes cataloged with the AWS Glue data catalog. Note that a managed data asset is an asset for which Amazon DataZone can manage permissions.

Metadata 87

Metadata Data Lake Data Processing Data-driven 87

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The data architect also “provides a standard common business vocabulary, expresses strategic requirements, outlines high-level integrated designs to meet those requirements, and aligns with enterprise strategy and related business architecture,” according to DAMA International’s Data Management Body of Knowledge.

Data Architecture 132

Data Architecture Data Warehouse Statistics Visualization 132

Cloudera

APRIL 22, 2021

Today’s enterprise data analytics teams are constantly looking to get the best out of their platforms. Storage plays one of the most important roles in the data platforms strategy, it provides the basis for all compute engines and applications to be built on top of it. Metadata in cluster is disjoint across components.

Data Lake 101

Data Lake Cost-Benefit Metadata Big Data 101

AWS Big Data

JANUARY 24, 2023

This solution only replicates metadata in the Data Catalog, not the actual underlying data. To have a redundant data lake using Lake Formation and AWS Glue in an additional Region, we recommend replicating the Amazon S3-based storage using S3 replication , S3 sync, aws-s3-copy-sync-using-batch or S3 Batch replication process.

Data Architecture 73

Data Architecture Metadata Data Lake Snapshot 73

AWS Big Data

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

For Shared database’s region , choose the Data Catalog view source Region. The Shared database and Shared database’s owner ID fields are populated manually from the database metadata. The resource link appears on the Databases page on the Lake Formation console, as shown in the following screenshot.

Data Lake 100

Data Lake Analytics Data-driven Data Strategy 100