AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Amazon Athena offers serverless, flexible SQL analytics for one-time queries, enabling direct querying of Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data for rapid, cost-effective instant analysis. In this post, we use dbt for data modeling on both Amazon Athena and Amazon Redshift.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In our previous post Improve operational efficiencies of Apache Iceberg tables built on Amazon S3 data lakes , we discussed how you can implement solutions to improve operational efficiencies of your Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data lake that is using the Apache Iceberg open table format and running on the Amazon EMR big data platform.

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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. This property is set to true by default. availability.

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AWS Big Data

APRIL 27, 2023

Amazon Athena supports the MERGE command on Apache Iceberg tables, which allows you to perform inserts, updates, and deletes in your data lake at scale using familiar SQL statements that are compliant with ACID (Atomic, Consistent, Isolated, Durable).

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AWS Big Data

JULY 29, 2024

In the era of big data, data lakes have emerged as a cornerstone for storing vast amounts of raw data in its native format. They support structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data, offering a flexible and scalable environment for data ingestion from multiple sources.

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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

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

DECEMBER 4, 2024

With this new functionality, customers can create up-to-date replicas of their data from applications such as Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Zendesk in an Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse and Amazon Redshift. SageMaker Lakehouse gives you the flexibility to access and query your data in-place with all Apache Iceberg compatible tools and engines.

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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. Moreover, the framework should consume compute resources as optimally as possible per the size of the operational tables.

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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. Compacting files speeds up the read operation when queried.

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O'Reilly on Data

OCTOBER 19, 2021

ML use cases rarely dictate the master data management solution, so the ML stack needs to integrate with existing data warehouses. To manage the dynamism, we can resort to taking snapshots that represent immutable points in time: of models, of data, of code, and of internal state. Enter the software development layers.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Apache Hudi is an open table format that brings database and data warehouse capabilities to data lakes. Apache Hudi helps data engineers manage complex challenges, such as managing continuously evolving datasets with transactions while maintaining query performance. For CoW tables, queries see the latest data committed.

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Inventory management benefits from historical data for analyzing sales patterns and optimizing stock levels. In fraud detection, historical data helps identify anomalous patterns in transactions or user behaviors. Anytime when you need SCD Type-2 snapshot of your Iceberg table, you can create the corresponding representation.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 3, 2023

Backtesting is a process used in quantitative finance to evaluate trading strategies using historical data. This helps traders determine the potential profitability of a strategy and identify any risks associated with it, enabling them to optimize it for better performance.

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AWS Big Data

MAY 15, 2024

You can use this solution regularly as part of your cost-optimization efforts to safely remove unused EIPs to reduce your costs. By extracting detailed information from CloudTrail and querying it using Athena, this solution streamlines the process of data collection, analysis, and reporting of EIP usage within an AWS account.

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Cloudera

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Introduction Apache Iceberg has recently grown in popularity because it adds data warehouse-like capabilities to your data lake making it easier to analyze all your data — structured and unstructured. Problem with too many snapshots Everytime a write operation occurs on an Iceberg table, a new snapshot is created.

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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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AWS Big Data

AUGUST 9, 2024

These processes retrieve data from around 90 different data sources, resulting in updating roughly 2,000 tables in the data warehouse and 3,000 external tables in Parquet format, accessed through Amazon Redshift Spectrum and a data lake on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). TB of data.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Your applications can seamlessly read from and write to your Amazon Redshift data warehouse while maintaining optimal performance and transactional consistency. Additionally, you’ll benefit from performance improvements through pushdown optimizations, further enhancing the efficiency of your operations. options(**read_config).option("query",

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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

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.

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AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

With data volumes exhibiting a double-digit percentage growth rate year on year and the COVID pandemic disrupting global logistics in 2021, it became more critical to scale and generate near-real-time data. This introduces the need for both polling and pushing the data to access and analyze in near-real time.

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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. The team uses dbt-glue to build a transformed gold model optimized for business intelligence (BI).

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Cloudera

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Queries containing joins, filters, projections, group-by, or aggregations without group-by can be transparently rewritten by the Hive optimizer to use one or more eligible materialized views. Subsequently, these snapshot IDs are used to determine the delta changes that should be applied to the materialized view rows.

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IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

With a few taps on a mobile device, riders request a ride; then, Uber’s algorithms work to match them with the nearest available driver and calculate the optimal price. Uber’s prowess as a transportation, logistics and analytics company hinges on their ability to leverage data effectively. But the simplicity ends there.

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AWS Big Data

JUNE 21, 2023

Built on highly curated structured data, it provides the flexibility and speed to run aggregations across an entire dataset to derive insights. To house our data, we need to define a data model. An optimal design choice is to use a dimensional model. This is achieved by partitioning the data.

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Cloudera

APRIL 3, 2023

Every table change creates an Iceberg snapshot, this helps to resolve concurrency issues and allows readers to scan a stable table state every time. During queries the query engines scan both the data files and delete files belonging to the same snapshot and merge them together (i.e. ID, TBL_ICEBERG_PART_2.NAME,

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AWS Big Data

AUGUST 1, 2024

This includes the ETL processes that capture source data, the functional refinement and creation of data products, the aggregation for business metrics, and the consumption from analytics, business intelligence (BI), and ML. This will enable right-sizing the Redshift data warehouse to meet workload demands cost-effectively.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 25, 2024

Furthermore, data events are filtered, enriched, and transformed to a consumable format using a stream processor. The result is made available to the application by querying the latest snapshot. For more details, refer to Create a low-latency source-to-data lake pipeline using Amazon MSK Connect, Apache Flink, and Apache Hudi.

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AWS Big Data

JANUARY 8, 2024

Stream Processing – An application created with Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink can read the records from the data stream to detect and clean any errors in the time series data and enrich the data with specific metadata to optimize operational analytics.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 8, 2024

In Apache Flink 1.19, you can now specify different checkpointing intervals based on whether a source operator is processing backlog data. This flexibility optimizes job performance by reducing checkpoint frequency during backlog phases, enhancing overall throughput. This feature only involves source connectors.

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AWS Big Data

MAY 30, 2023

Customers have been using data warehousing solutions to perform their traditional analytics tasks. Recently, data lakes have gained lot of traction to become the foundation for analytical solutions, because they come with benefits such as scalability, fault tolerance, and support for structured, semi-structured, and unstructured datasets.

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Cloudera

MARCH 5, 2024

With built-in features like time travel, schema evolution, and streamlined data discovery, Iceberg empowers data teams to enhance data lake management while upholding data integrity. Zero Downtime Upgrades Beyond improvements to Iceberg and Ozone, the platform now boasts Zero Downtime Upgrades (ZDU).

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AWS Big Data

JULY 28, 2023

Amazon Redshift now makes it easier for you to run queries in AWS data lakes by automatically mounting the AWS Glue Data Catalog. You no longer have to create an external schema in Amazon Redshift to use the data lake tables cataloged in the Data Catalog.

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Cloudera

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

We have delivered the performance and reliability of the data warehouse with the flexibility and scale of a data lake with our data service engines and the Hive metastore. Applying the Iceberg table format to all the organization’s data in the data lake makes it more performant and usable at scale.

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Cloudera

MARCH 23, 2022

Being multi-function also means integrated end-to-end data pipelines that break siloes, piecing together analytics as a coherent life-cycle where business value can be extracted at each and every stage. Users should be able to choose their tool of choice and take advantage of its workload specific optimizations. 4: Enterprise grade.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 3, 2023

Building data lakes from continuously changing transactional data of databases and keeping data lakes up to date is a complex task and can be an operational challenge. You can then apply transformations and store data in Delta format for managing inserts, updates, and deletes.

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