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As businesses grow, business requirements and needs change. At some point, organizations often outgrow their existing database and must switch to one with better performance, requiring a data migration. Data migration refers to the movement of data from a source…
Data warehouses and data lakes are the most common central data repositories employed by most data-driven organizations today, each with its own strengths and tradeoffs. For one, while data warehouses allow businesses to organize historical datasets for use in business…
Data federation and data virtualization are so similar that the terms are often used interchangeably. And in practice, you’re unlikely to run into trouble if you conflate them. Even so, in the academic sense, virtualization and federation of data not…
Data is everywhere, in different formats and databases. Being able to integrate multiple, highly varied data sources is essential to running a business today. You have to be able to Extract-Transfer-Load (ETL) the data from each source into a database…
With their ability to harness and make sense of all types of data from disparate sources, data pipelines are the foundation of modern analytics. A data pipeline refers to a series of steps (typically called jobs) that aggregate data from…