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June 23, 2022 23 Jun'22
Starburst acquires Varada to accelerate data lake queries

After a year of partnering, the data lake query vendor decided to acquire fellow Trino SQL query engine supporter Varada to help boost query performance.
June 14, 2022 14 Jun'22
Yellowbrick 6 advances cloud data warehouse deployments

The data warehouse vendor is growing its hybrid data warehouse capabilities with version 6.0 of its namesake platform that is now enabled to run on AWS.
June 14, 2022 14 Jun'22
Snowflake Data Cloud expands with Unistore Hybrid Tables

Snowflake adds more capabilities, including support for Apache Iceberg data lake tables and both transactional and analytics workloads, with Hybrid Tables.
June 09, 2022 09 Jun'22
Datamart a new self-service developer tool in Power BI

The capability, now in in preview, will enable Premium customers to build small to midsize relational databases dedicated to a single subject, without requiring code.

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Elastic Stack (ELK Stack)

The Elastic Stack is a group of open source products from Elastic designed to help users take data from any type of source and in any format, and search, analyze and visualize that data in real time. Continue Reading
How to evaluate and optimize data warehouse performance

Organizations build data warehouses to satisfy their information management needs. Data warehouse optimization can help ensure that these warehouses achieve their full potential. Continue Reading
6 key steps to develop a data governance strategy

Data governance shouldn't be built around technology, but the other way around. Existing infrastructure, executive support, data literacy, metrics and proper tools are essential. Continue Reading

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Bill Inmon's data warehouse approach tackles text analysis

Learn the fine points of a concept at the heart of 'The Textual Warehouse' a new book that aims to help organizations profit through textual analysis. Continue Reading
Apache Pulsar vs. Kafka and other data processing technologies

David Kjerrumgaard looks at how the distributed messaging platform Apache Pulsar handles storage compared to Apache Kafka and other data processing technologies. Continue Reading
Data warehouse technologies evolve as vendors look skyward

The need for high-speed analytics and low latency are pushing data warehousing vendors to create and reinvent their platforms and, in some cases, reinvent themselves. Continue Reading

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NLP and AI boost the automated data warehouse

Businesses are working to automate as many elements of their data warehouses as they can through nascent tools like augmented analytics and neuro-linguistic programming. Continue Reading
Top 5 elements needed for a successful data warehouse

While conventional data warehouses may struggle to keep up with growing volumes of data, these five elements best give the ability to tap into valuable BI. Continue Reading
6 strategies to tap into data warehouse BI

Data warehouse BI benefits include data storage, summarization and transformation and can be unlocked with these six strategies leveraging cloud architectures. Continue Reading

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Dimension tables vs. fact tables: What's the difference?

Fact tables and dimension tables are used together in star schemas to support data analytics applications. But they play different roles and hold different types of data. Continue Reading
Operational data store vs. data warehouse: How do they differ?

Operational data stores and data warehouses both store operational data, but the similarities between them end there -- and they both have a role to play in analytics architectures. Continue Reading
Key issues to consider when building a data warehouse

There are numerous issues, both technical and cultural, that organizations need to consider before building a data warehouse. Learn what they are from our data warehousing expert. Continue Reading