BizAcuity

MARCH 29, 2019

Data lakes are centralized repositories that can store all structured and unstructured data at any desired scale. The power of the data lake lies in the fact that it often is a cost-effective way to store data. Deploying Data Lakes in the cloud. Best practices to build a Data Lake.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2024

“The challenge that a lot of our customers have is that requires you to copy that data, store it in Salesforce; you have to create a place to store it; you have to create an object or field in which to store it; and then you have to maintain that pipeline of data synchronization and make sure that data is updated,” Carlson said.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2022

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. Newer data lakes are highly scalable and can ingest structured and semi-structured data along with unstructured data like text, images, video, and audio.

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AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

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. As part of the transformation, the objects need to be treated to ensure data privacy (for example, PII redaction).

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Most companies produce and consume unstructured data such as documents, emails, web pages, engagement center phone calls, and social media. By some estimates, unstructured data can make up to 80–90% of all new enterprise data and is growing many times faster than structured data.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

By changing the cost structure of collecting data, it increased the volume of data stored in every organization. Additionally, Hadoop removed the requirement to model or structure data when writing to a physical store. You did not have to understand or prepare the data to get it into Hadoop, so people rarely did.

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Alation

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Data Swamp vs Data Lake. When you imagine a lake, it’s likely an idyllic image of a tree-ringed body of reflective water amid singing birds and dabbling ducks. I’ll take the lake, thank you very much. Many organizations have built a data lake to solve their data storage, access, and utilization challenges.

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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

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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AWS Big Data

AUGUST 5, 2024

These business units have varying landscapes, where a data lake is managed by Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and analytics workloads are run on Amazon Redshift , a fast, scalable, and fully managed cloud data warehouse that allows you to process and run your complex SQL analytics workloads on structured and semi-structured data.

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Cloudera

JUNE 25, 2021

Using easy-to-define policies, Replication Manager solves one of the biggest barriers for the customers in their cloud adoption journey by allowing them to move both tables/structured data and files/unstructured data to the CDP cloud of their choice easily. CDP Data Lake cluster versions – CM 7.4.0,

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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

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Data lakes are designed for storing vast amounts of raw, unstructured, or semi-structured data at a low cost, and organizations share those datasets across multiple departments and teams. The queries on these large datasets read vast amounts of data and can perform complex join operations on multiple datasets.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 25, 2024

Streaming jobs constantly ingest new data to synchronize across systems and can perform enrichment, transformations, joins, and aggregations across windows of time more efficiently. With a file system sink connector, Apache Flink jobs can deliver data to Amazon S3 in open format (such as JSON, Avro, Parquet, and more) files as data objects.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 26, 2024

Profile aggregation – When you’ve uniquely identified a customer, you can build applications in Managed Service for Apache Flink to consolidate all their metadata, from name to interaction history. Then, you transform this data into a concise format. Let’s find out what role each of these components play in the context of C360.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 2, 2023

JSON data in Amazon Redshift Amazon Redshift enables storage, processing, and analytics on JSON data through the SUPER data type, PartiQL language, materialized views, and data lake queries. The function JSON_PARSE allows you to extract the binary data in the stream and convert it into the SUPER data type.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 18, 2023

In another decade, the internet and mobile started the generate data of unforeseen volume, variety and velocity. It required a different data platform solution. Hence, Data Lake emerged, which handles unstructured and structured data with huge volume. Data fabric promotes data discoverability.

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AWS Big Data

JANUARY 22, 2024

They classified the metrics and indicators in the following categories: Data usage – A clear understanding of who is consuming what data source, materialized with a mapping of consumers and producers. In this approach, teams responsible for generating data are referred to as producers.

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Cloudera

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

A Better Way Forward: Cloudera’s Open Data Lakehouse Cloudera offers a solution to these challenges with its open data lakehouse, which combines the flexibility and scalability of data lake storage with data warehouse functionality to unify and simplify the management of cyber log data.

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Alation

APRIL 6, 2023

Data governance is traditionally applied to structured data assets that are most often found in databases and information systems. This blog focuses on governing spreadsheets that contain data, information, and metadata, and must themselves be governed. Data catalogs and spreadsheets are related in many ways.

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Alation

JULY 19, 2022

A data catalog can assist directly with every step, but model development. And even then, information from the data catalog can be transferred to a model connector , allowing data scientists to benefit from curated metadata within those platforms. How Data Catalogs Help Data Scientists Ask Better Questions.

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Octopai

MAY 30, 2019

The Benefits of Structured Data Catalogs. At the most basic level, data catalogs help you organize your company’s massive datasets. Most enterprises have huge data lakes with millions of touchpoints all living in the dark. Folding In Metadata Automation. Scalability. Keep catalog scalability in mind.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 4, 2023

A modern information lifecycle management approach Today’s ILM approach recognizes the enterprise value of all digitized and enriched assets , avoiding the habituated, narrow reliance ontraditional structured data. Beyond “records,” organizations can digitally capture anything and apply metadata for context and searchability.

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AWS Big Data

JUNE 6, 2023

Unless, of course, the rest of their data also resides in the Google Cloud. In this post we showcase how we used AWS Glue to move siloed digital analytics data, with inconsistent arrival times, to AWS S3 (our Data Lake) and our central data warehouse (DWH), Snowflake. It consists of full-day and intraday tables.

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Cloudera

JANUARY 22, 2019

Today’s data landscape is characterized by exponentially increasing volumes of data, comprising a variety of structured, unstructured, and semi-structured data types originating from an expanding number of disparate data sources located on-premises, in the cloud, and at the edge.

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Peter James Thomas

AUGUST 29, 2018

I have since run and driven transformation in Reference Data, Master Data , KYC [3] , Customer Data, Data Warehousing and more recently Data Lakes and Analytics , constantly building experience and capability in the Data Governance , Quality and data services domains, both inside banks, as a consultant and as a vendor.

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Ontotext

MARCH 8, 2023

Specifically, the increasing amount of data being generated and collected, and the need to make sense of it, and its use in artificial intelligence and machine learning, which can benefit from the structured data and context provided by knowledge graphs. We get this question regularly. million users.

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AWS Big Data

AUGUST 16, 2023

Iceberg manages large collections of files as tables, and it supports modern analytical data lake operations such as record-level insert, update, delete, and time travel queries. Iceberg also helps guarantee data correctness under concurrent write scenarios. We fetch the metadata of the users_xxxxxx table from Athena.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 28, 2023

Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud. It is designed for analyzing large volumes of data and performing complex queries on structured and semi-structured data. Tags provide metadata about resources at a glance.

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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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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 21, 2023

To bring their customers the best deals and user experience, smava follows the modern data architecture principles with a data lake as a scalable, durable data store and purpose-built data stores for analytical processing and data consumption.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 6, 2023

Advancements in analytics and AI as well as support for unstructured data in centralized data lakes are key benefits of doing business in the cloud, and Shutterstock is capitalizing on its cloud foundation, creating new revenue streams and business models using the cloud and data lakes as key components of its innovation platform.

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erwin

AUGUST 31, 2023

Let’s explore the continued relevance of data modeling and its journey through history, challenges faced, adaptations made, and its pivotal role in the new age of data platforms, AI, and democratized data access. Embracing the future In the dynamic world of data, data modeling remains an indispensable tool.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 9, 2024

This unification is perhaps best exemplified by a new offering inside Amazon SageMaker, Unified Studio , which combinesSQLanalytics, data processing, AI development, data streaming, business intelligence, and search analytics. On the storage front, AWS unveiled S3 Table Buckets and the S3 Metadata features.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Amazon Redshift is a fast, scalable, and fully managed cloud data warehouse that allows you to process and run your complex SQL analytics workloads on structured and semi-structured data. Mengchu currently works on query optimization and data lake query performance.

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Data lakes were originally designed to store large volumes of raw, unstructured, or semi-structured data at a low cost, primarily serving big data and analytics use cases. Enabling automatic compaction on Iceberg tables reduces metadata overhead on your Iceberg tables and improves query performance.

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