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A data lake is a centralized repository that allows you to store all of your structured and unstructured data at any scale. In the past, when disk storage was expensive, and data was costly and time-consuming to gather, enterprises needed to be discerning about what data to collect and store. Organizations would carefully design databases and data […]

While data lakes and data warehouses are conceptually different in terms of their design and implementation, they have at least a few things in common: However, this is usually where the similarities end. Before comparing data warehouses and data lakes, it is useful first to explain what we mean by data warehousing. What Is a Data Warehouse? Data warehouses […]

Data fuels the modern enterprise — today more than ever, businesses compete on their ability to turn big data into essential business insights. Increasingly, enterprises leverage data lakes as the platform used to store data for analytical purposes, combined with various compute engines for processing that data. What Is a Data Lake? A data lake […]