Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

While there is a lot of discussion about the merits of data warehouses, not enough discussion centers around data lakes. We talked about enterprise data warehouses in the past, so let’s contrast them with data lakes. Both data warehouses and data lakes are used when storing big data.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 3, 2023

A data lake is a centralized repository that you can use to store all your structured and unstructured data at any scale. You can store your data as-is, without having to first structure the data and then run different types of analytics for better business insights. They are the same.

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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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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Unstructured data has been a significant factor in data lakes and analytics for some time. Twelve years ago, nearly a third of enterprises were working with large amounts of unstructured data. As I’ve pointed out previously , unstructured data is really a misnomer.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 2, 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. and later supports the Apache Iceberg framework for data lakes. AWS Glue 3.0 The following diagram illustrates the solution architecture.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

MARCH 30, 2020

I was recently asked to identify key modern data architecture trends. Data architectures have changed significantly to accommodate larger volumes of data as well as new types of data such as streaming and unstructured data. Here are some of the trends I see continuing to impact data architectures.

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AWS Big Data

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Organizations are collecting and storing vast amounts of structured and unstructured data like reports, whitepapers, and research documents. By consolidating this information, analysts can discover and integrate data from across the organization, creating valuable data products based on a unified dataset.

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Jet Global

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Option 3: Azure Data Lakes. This leads us to Microsoft’s apparent long-term strategy for D365 F&SCM reporting: Azure Data Lakes. Azure Data Lakes are highly complex and designed with a different fundamental purpose in mind than financial and operational reporting. Data lakes are not a mature technology.

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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.

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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 31, 2024

In the current industry landscape, data lakes have become a cornerstone of modern data architecture, serving as repositories for vast amounts of structured and unstructured data. Maintaining data consistency and integrity across distributed data lakes is crucial for decision-making and analytics.

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Jet Global

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

There is an established body of practice around creating, managing, and accessing OLAP data (known as “cubes”). Data Lakes. There has been a lot of talk over the past year or two in the D365F&SCM world about “data lakes.” There are virtually no rules about what such data looks like. It is unstructured.

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Corinium

APRIL 9, 2019

We were consistently being told that data science would be the “ sexiest ” job of the century but finding a data scientist to implement a Big Data project was difficult to do.

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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.

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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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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

Data governance is a critical building block across all these approaches, and we see two emerging areas of focus. 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.

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AWS Big Data

AUGUST 3, 2023

With the rapid growth of technology, more and more data volume is coming in many different formats—structured, semi-structured, and unstructured. Data analytics on operational data at near-real time is becoming a common need. Then we can query the data with Amazon Athena visualize it in Amazon QuickSight.

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Sisense

APRIL 26, 2020

Different types of information are more suited to being stored in a structured or unstructured format. Read on to explore more about structured vs unstructured data, why the difference between structured and unstructured data matters, and how cloud data warehouses deal with them both. Unstructured data.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

As part of that transformation, Agusti has plans to integrate a data lake into the company’s data architecture and expects two AI proofs of concept (POCs) to be ready to move into production within the quarter. Today, we backflush our data lake through our data warehouse.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The data preparation process should take place alongside a long-term strategy built around GenAI use cases, such as content creation, digital assistants, and code generation. Known as data engineering, this involves setting up a data lake or lakehouse, with their data integrated with GenAI models.

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Sisense

APRIL 9, 2021

Instead, businesses are increasingly turning to data lakes to store massive amounts of unstructured data. Analytics from your cloud data sources are key to transforming your business, but the reality of how most companies use them lags behind expectations. The rise of data warehouses and data lakes.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 18, 2022

Previously, Walgreens was attempting to perform that task with its data lake but faced two significant obstacles: cost and time. Those challenges are well-known to many organizations as they have sought to obtain analytical knowledge from their vast amounts of data. Lakehouses redeem the failures of some data lakes.

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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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Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The application presents a massive volume of unstructured data through a graphical or programming interface using the analytical abilities of business intelligence technology to provide instant insight. Interactive analytics applications present vast volumes of unstructured data at scale to provide instant insights.

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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 26, 2024

Initially, data warehouses were the go-to solution for structured data and analytical workloads but were limited by proprietary storage formats and their inability to handle unstructured data. In practice, OTFs are used in a broad range of analytical workloads, from business intelligence to machine learning.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2024

For instance, a Data Cloud-triggered flow could update an account manager in Slack when shipments in an external data lake are marked as delayed. Sharing Customer 360 insights back without data replication. Currently, Data Cloud leverages live SQL queries to access data from external data platforms via zero copy.

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Timo Elliott

JANUARY 3, 2022

It’s stored in corporate data warehouses, data lakes, and a myriad of other locations – and while some of it is put to good use, it’s estimated that around 73% of this data remains unexplored. In this way, you can turn dark data into insights and help drive business improvements. Learn More.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 24, 2022

The Intelligent Data Management Cloud for Financial Services, like Informatica’s other industry-focused platforms, combines vertical-based accelerators with the company’s suite of machine learning tools to help with challenges around unstructured data and quick data-based decision making. .

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erwin

AUGUST 15, 2022

For NoSQL, data lakes, and data lake houses—data modeling of both structured and unstructured data is somewhat novel and thorny. This blog is an introduction to some advanced NoSQL and data lake database design techniques (while avoiding common pitfalls) is noteworthy. Data Modeling.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Deploying new data types for machine learning Mai-Lan Tomsen-Bukovec, vice president of foundational data services at AWS, sees the cloud giant’s enterprise customers deploying more unstructured data, as well as wider varieties of data sets, to inform the accuracy and training of ML models of late.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 29, 2024

Modernizing data operations CIOs like Woodring know well that the quality of an AI model depends in large part on the quality of the data involved — and how that data is injected from databases, data warehouses, cloud data lakes, and the like into large language models.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2022

The data lakehouse is a relatively new data architecture concept, first championed by Cloudera, which offers both storage and analytics capabilities as part of the same solution, in contrast to the concepts for data lake and data warehouse which, respectively, store data in native format, and structured data, often in SQL format.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The Basel, Switzerland-based company, which operates in more than 100 countries, has petabytes of data, including highly structured customer data, data about treatments and lab requests, operational data, and a massive, growing volume of unstructured data, particularly imaging data.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 29, 2022

Azure Data Explorer is used to store and query data in services such as Microsoft Purview, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Sentinel, and Log Analytics in Azure Monitor. Azure Data Lake Analytics. Data warehouses are designed for questions you already know you want to ask about your data, again and again.

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