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Data Lake or Warehouse? Databricks Offers a Third Way

In the ongoing debate about where companies ought to store data they want to analyze – in a data warehouses or in data lake -- Databricks today unveiled a third way. With SQL Analytics, Databricks is building upon its Read more…

Data Lakes Are Legacy Tech, Fivetran CEO Says

By some accounts, data lakes appear poised to supplant data warehouses as the center of gravity of modern analytics systems, particularly with today’s sophisticated data virtualization capabilities. But with the advent Read more…

Building an Open Cloud Data Lake Future

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The explosion of data and the need for business agility to leverage that data for competitive advantage are driving a massive surge of data lake innovation. We’ve moved past first-generation on-premises Hadoop-based da Read more…

To Centralize or Not to Centralize Your Data–That Is the Question

Should you strive to centralize your data, or leave it scattered about? It seems like it should be a simple question, but it’s actually a tough one to answer, particularly because it has so many ramifications for how d Read more…

MongoDB Steps Up Game with MongoDB Cloud

First there was Atlas, MongoDB’s hosted database-as-a-service (DBaaS) offering for public clouds. Now the company is launching MongoDB Cloud, an amalgamation of a range of MongoDB products and services that includes At Read more…

What Is a Data Cloud? And 11 Other Snowflake Enhancements

Snowflake has changed how the industry thinks about data warehouses with its cloud-native offering, which has been adopted by 4,000 organizations, including 2,000 in the last year alone. Now the company is taking the con Read more…

Databricks, Partners, Open a Unified ‘Lakehouse’

Coalescing around an open source storage layer, Databricks is pitching a new data management framework billed as combining the best attributes of data lakes and warehouses into what the company dubs a “lakehouse.” Read more…

Best Practices for Wrangling Data on your Cloud Data Lake or Data Warehouse

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To get the most value from your investment in a cloud data warehouse or data lake, your organization must break through the biggest bottleneck to analytics and AI: data wrangling. To do so successfully, organizations sho Read more…

Selecting a Data Lake ETL Platform? Here Are 6 Questions to Ask

Not all data lakes are created equal. If your organization wants to adopt a data lake solution to simplify and more easily operate your IT infrastructure and store enormous quantities of data without requiring extended Read more…

Microsoft Aims for Data Analytics Unification with ‘Synapse’

Microsoft took a big step toward unifying disparate analytic toolsets and functions this week with the launch of Synapse Analytics, an ambitious new cloud-hosted offering that seeks to bring together the separate worlds Read more…

Architecting Your Data Lake for Flexibility

The terms 'Big Data' and 'Hadoop' have come to be almost synonymous in today's world of business intelligence and analytics. The promise of easy access to large volumes of heterogeneous data, at low cost compared to trad Read more…

Can We Stop Doing ETL Yet?

Despite the advances we've made in data science and advanced analytics in recent years, many projects still are beholden to a technological holdover from the 1980s: extract, transform, and load, or ETL. It's uncanny how Read more…

Learning from Data to Create a Safer and Smarter Self-Driving Experience

The automotive industry isn’t just being driven by people -- it’s also driven by data, particularly as automobile manufacturers move toward autonomous, self-driving vehicles. Last year, Waymo cars drove 1.2 million m Read more…

MongoDB Accelerates Cloud Shift

MongoDB rolled out new versions of services and features this week designed to help migrate databases to the cloud, including a new data lake and search features. MongoDB also is among seven new cloud data partners wo Read more…

Databricks Donates Delta Code to Open Source

Databricks today announced that it's open sourcing the code behind Databricks Delta, the Apache Spark-based product it designed to help keep data neat and clean as it flows from sources into its cloud-based analytics env Read more…

How Databricks Keeps Data Quality High with Delta

Data lakes have sprung up everywhere as organizations look for ways to store all their data. But the quality of data in those lakes has posed a major barrier to getting a return on data lake investments. Now Databricks i Read more…

Nvidia Sees Green in Data Science Workloads

We already knew that GPUs are useful for lots of things besides making Fortnite uncomfortably realistic. All the biggest supercomputers in the world use GPUs to accelerate math, and more recently they've been used to pow Read more…

Building a Successful Data Governance Strategy

One of the core elements of data analytics that organizations struggle with today is data governance. An organization could do everything right and still wonder why their analytics projects are failing if they haven't ta Read more…

Hitachi Ups Game for Managing Unstructured Data

Most enterprise data go unused, and according to some studies very little unstructured data in the form of text, audio and video makes its way into the hands of data analysts. Hence, data integrators see an opportunit Read more…

AWS To Build You a Data Lake in ‘A Few Clicks’

AWS yesterday announced Lake Formation, a new service that it says will let users build their own data lake on S3 -- complete with the requisite provisions for security, access control, data transformation, and catalogin Read more…

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