Beginning Azure Synapse Analytics: Transition from Data Warehouse to Data Lakehouse

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B. ShiyalBeginning Azure Synapse Analyticshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7061-5_2

2. Modern Data Warehouses and Data Lakehouses

Bhadresh Shiyal¹  

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Mumbai, India

 

Databases are meant to store structured data, and so are data warehouses; however, data warehouses are different in many respects. Due to the increase in the number of applications used per organization, the increase in the volume of data, and the increase in the speed at which these data are generated, a specialized system is warranted that allows for the processing and aggregating of large volumes of data received from disparate source systems. That is where the data warehouse comes into the ...