Tag: data lake
Cloud Data Warehouses and Cloud Data Lakes: There’s No Need to Choose
Particularly with the industry spotlight on Snowflake following its recent IPO, there’s no shortage of discussion right now around cloud data warehouses, cloud data lakes, and how the two overlap – or don’t. For ma Read more…
Cloud Is the New Center of Gravity for Data Warehousing
The great migration of data into the cloud didn’t start in 2020, but it certainly accelerated throughout the year. And according to a new survey from IDG, the overwhelming majority of companies are planning to expand t Read more…
Dremio Officially a ‘Unicorn’ As it Reaches $1B Valuation
The explosion of data lake analytics in the cloud has been good for Dremio, which today announced the completion of a $135-million Series D round. The company’s valuation has more than doubled in the past year to $1 bi Read more…
Peering Into the Crystal Ball of Advanced Analytics
The world of advanced analytics was evolving quickly at the end of 2020. And according to our panel of experts who volunteered predictions on the topic, the accelerated pace of change in advanced data analytics will cont Read more…
AWS Bolsters Its Lakehouse
Amazon Web Services wants you to create data silos to ensure you get the best performance when processing data. AWS also wants to help unify your data to ensure that insights don’t fall between the cracks. If you think Read more…
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…
Building an Open Cloud Data Lake Future
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
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…
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…