Chapter 1: Balancing the Benefits of Data Lakes Over Data Warehouses
Is the Data Warehouse dead with the advent of Data Lakes? There is disagreement everywhere about the need for Data Warehousing in a modern data estate. With the rise of Data Lakes and Big Data technology, many people use other, newer technologies compared to databases for their analytical efforts. Establishing a data-driven company seems to be possible without all those narrow definitions and planned structures, the ETL/ELT, and all the indexing for performance. But when we examine the technology carefully, when we compare the requirements that are formulated in analytical projects, free of prejudice to the functionality that the chosen services or software packages can deliver, ...
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