Introduction Discussion of data models in Bigdata environments usually centres around technology focused question – file formats, what compression to use, which columnar store is preferred, whether the file structures are splittable and so on. While these are valid and … Continue reading How to optimise your read-only Bigdata storage model
I’ve called this Data Lake Top Tips because if I called it Data Warehouse Top Tips, then nobody would read it (because nobody is building Data Warehouses any more, right?). The reality is that Data Lakes, Data Warehouses, Data Marts … Continue reading Data Lake Top Tips
Introduction There’s no question that data is becoming an important topic in almost every organisation. For some organisations data will be seen as a challenge – as security breaches, privacy violations and data misuse appear on the news almost every day; for other organisations, data is an opportunity as new startups look to use data in new ways and established organisations look to monetise their current data. What is common across all organisations is the recognition that data cannot be ignored – data doesn’t look after itself and the value inherent in data cannot be realised without both up-front investment … Continue reading Data Platform
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