Data lakes and data warehouses are two of the most popular forms of data storage and processing platforms, both of which can be employed to improve a business’s use of information. However, these ...

Platforms like AWS Lake Formation and Delta Lake point toward a central hub for decision support and AI-driven decision automation Are data warehouses relevant again, or are they a dying breed? You’re ...

Data lake is a newer IT term created for a new category of data store. But just what is a data lake? According to IBM, “a data lake is a storage repository that holds an enormous amount of raw or ...

The "data" part of the terms "data lake," "data warehouse," and "database" is easy enough to understand. Data are everywhere, and the bits need to be kept somewhere. But should they be stored in a ...

The data lakehouse – it’s not a summer retreat for over-worked database administrators (DBAs) or data scientists, it’s a concept that tries to bridge the gap between the data warehouse and the data ...

Data warehouse systems have been at the center of many big data initiatives going as far back as the 1980s. Today companies from leading cloud hyperscalers such as Amazon Web Services (Redshift) and ...

Choosing the right data management solution comes with a long list of considerations for district IT teams, including where to start. Banks, co-host of the Packet Pushers Podcast, has been managing ...

Learn what a data warehouse is and how it securely stores, manages, and retrieves information for better decision-making and ...

One of the most important decisions CIOs face today is where to store all of their organization's data. For the last 10 years, many enterprises have answered this question with a two-pronged approach: ...

I work at a startup and our data is very messy at the moment, as you might imagine. We have a few product level transactional databases, but no central database to store it all in a useful way for ...