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Data Warehouses: Basic Concepts for data enthusiasts

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction The purpose of a data warehouse is to combine multiple sources to generate different insights that help companies make better decisions and forecasting. It consists of historical and commutative data from single or multiple sources. Most data scientists, big data analysts, and business […].

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Understanding the Differences Between Data Lakes and Data Warehouses

Smart Data Collective

Data lakes and data warehouses are probably the two most widely used structures for storing data. Data Warehouses and Data Lakes in a Nutshell. A data warehouse is used as a central storage space for large amounts of structured data coming from various sources. Key Differences.

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Data Governance and Metadata Management: You Can’t Have One Without the Other

erwin

When an organization’s data governance and metadata management programs work in harmony, then everything is easier. Data governance is a complex but critical practice. There’s always more data to handle, much of it unstructured; more data sources, like IoT, more points of integration, and more regulatory compliance requirements.

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7 Benefits of Metadata Management

erwin

Metadata management is key to wringing all the value possible from data assets. However, most organizations don’t use all the data at their disposal to reach deeper conclusions about how to drive revenue, achieve regulatory compliance or accomplish other strategic objectives. What Is Metadata? Harvest data.

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Cloudera Data Warehouse outperforms Azure HDInsight in TPC-DS benchmark

Cloudera

Performance is one of the key, if not the most important deciding criterion, in choosing a Cloud Data Warehouse service. In today’s fast changing world, enterprises have to make data driven decisions quickly and for that they rely heavily on their data warehouse service. . Cloudera Data Warehouse vs HDInsight.

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How Eightfold AI implemented metadata security in a multi-tenant data analytics environment with Amazon Redshift

AWS Big Data

As part of the Talent Intelligence Platform Eightfold also exposes a data hub where each customer can access their Amazon Redshift-based data warehouse and perform ad hoc queries as well as schedule queries for reporting and data export. Many customers have implemented Amazon Redshift to support multi-tenant applications.

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Seamless integration of data lake and data warehouse using Amazon Redshift Spectrum and Amazon DataZone

AWS Big Data

Unifying these necessitates additional data processing, requiring each business unit to provision and maintain a separate data warehouse. This burdens business units focused solely on consuming the curated data for analysis and not concerned with data management tasks, cleansing, or comprehensive data processing.

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