Altexsoft

APRIL 16, 2021

As the topic is closely related to business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing (DW), we suggest you to get familiar with general terms first: A guide to business intelligence. An overview of data warehouse types. What is data pipeline. OLAP database is the place where we store data for analysis.

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Altexsoft

APRIL 26, 2022

Not long ago setting up a data warehouse — a central information repository enabling business intelligence and analytics — meant purchasing expensive, purpose-built hardware appliances and running a local data center. The data journey from different source systems to a warehouse commonly happens in two ways — ETL and ELT.

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Altexsoft

MARCH 18, 2021

From the late 1980s, when data warehouses came into view, and up to the mid-2000s, ETL was the main method used in creating data warehouses to support business intelligence (BI). As data keeps growing in volumes and types, the use of ETL becomes quite ineffective, costly, and time-consuming. What is ELT?

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Altexsoft

JUNE 26, 2023

Data collection is a methodical practice aimed at acquiring meaningful information to build a consistent and complete dataset for a specific business purpose — such as decision-making, answering research questions, or strategic planning. For this task, you need a dedicated specialist — a data engineer or ETL developer.

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Altexsoft

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Similar to how DevOps once reshaped the software development landscape, another evolving methodology, DataOps, is currently changing Big Data analytics — and for the better. DataOps is a relatively new methodology that knits together data engineering, data analytics, and DevOps to deliver high-quality data products as fast as possible.

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Altexsoft

JULY 18, 2023

Its flexibility allows it to operate on single-node machines and large clusters, serving as a multi-language platform for executing data engineering , data science , and machine learning tasks. Before diving into the world of Spark, we suggest you get acquainted with data engineering in general.

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Altexsoft

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

A data lakehouse , as the name suggests, is a new data architecture that merges data warehouse and data lake into a single whole, aiming at addressing each one’s limitations. In a nutshell, the lakehouse system leverages low-cost storage to keep large volumes of data in its raw formats just like data lakes.

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Altexsoft

JULY 29, 2022

Apache Hadoop is an open-source Java-based framework that relies on parallel processing and distributed storage for analyzing massive datasets. Developed in 2006 by Doug Cutting and Mike Cafarella to run the web crawler Apache Nutch, it has become a standard for Big Data analytics. What is Hadoop? Apache Hadoop architecture.

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Cloudera

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

It has the key elements of fast ingest, fast storage, and immediate querying for BI purposes. Basic Architecture for Real-Time Data Warehousing. These include stream processing/analytics, batch processing, tiered storage (i.e. for active archive or joining live data with historical data), or machine learning.

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Altexsoft

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

So, why does anyone need to integrate data in the first place? Today, companies want their business decisions to be driven by data. But here’s the thing — information required for business intelligence (BI) and analytics processes often lives in a breadth of databases and applications. How data consolidation works.

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Altexsoft

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The technology was written in Java and Scala in LinkedIn to solve the internal problem of managing continuous data flows. A publisher (say, telematics or Internet of Medical Things system) produces data units, also called events or messages , and directs them not to consumers but to a middleware platform — a broker. Kafka advantages.

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Altexsoft

MAY 14, 2021

A growing number of companies now use this data to uncover meaningful insights and improve their decision-making, but they can’t store and process it by the means of traditional data storage and processing units. Key Big Data characteristics. Data storage and processing.

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Altexsoft

AUGUST 4, 2021

Instead of combing through the vast amounts of all organizational data stored in a data warehouse, you can use a data mart — a repository that makes specific pieces of data available quickly to any given business unit. What is a data mart? Data mart use cases. Time-limited data projects.

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Altexsoft

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Integration with a business intelligence tool is important to receive a holistic analysis of your maintenance processes, track costs, visualize trends, and get actionable insights. It’s an awful lot of data, so it has to be processed with special tools. Processing data.

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Altexsoft

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Check a brief video explaining how demand forecasting works. Digitization has already greatly improved this business aspect, facilitating contract creation and editing, introducing e-signatures, increasing security, tracking expiration dates, and enabling convenient search and storage functionalities. Extract data.

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Altexsoft

DECEMBER 14, 2022

A container engine acts as an interface between the containers and a host operating system and allocates the required resources. Containers require fewer host resources such as processing power, RAM, and storage space than virtual machines. Docker also offers video explainers for those who prefer to listen and watch instead of reading.

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Altexsoft

OCTOBER 3, 2019

The platform provides “ business intelligence, planning, and predictive capabilities within one product” and uses AI and ML. A provider maintains the platform and handles the storage of your data. Data engineer builds interfaces and infrastructure to enable access to data.

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Altexsoft

DECEMBER 9, 2020

We will describe each level from the following perspectives: differences on the operational level; analytics tools companies use to manage and analyze data; business intelligence applications in real life; challenges to overcome and key changes that lead to transition. Introducing data engineering and data science expertise.

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Altexsoft

MARCH 30, 2023

What is Databricks Databricks is an analytics platform with a unified set of tools for data engineering, data management , data science, and machine learning. It combines the best elements of a data warehouse, a centralized repository for structured data, and a data lake used to host large amounts of raw data.

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Altexsoft

MARCH 14, 2023

That’s why some MDS tools are commercial distributions designed to be low-code or even no-code, making them accessible to data practitioners with minimal technical expertise. This means that companies don’t necessarily need a large data engineering team. Data democratization. Data storage component in a modern data stack.

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