I’d like to draw some parallels and highlight important differences between the architecture of the mainframe and the architecture of a data lake. Hopefully, this will help us understand where and how performance gains can be made in one environment versus the other. Mainframe Architecture...
Introduction A data lake provides data to an organization for a variety of analytics processing including discovery and exploration of data, simple ad hoc analytics, complex analysis for business decisions, traditional reporting as well as real-time predictive analytics. It is possible to...
It is estimated that a staggering 70% of the time spent on analytic projects is concerned with identifying, cleansing, and integrating data. To rectify this situation many organizations are considering a data lake solution. A data lake contains data from various sources. However, without...
There is one thing we can say for certain about the IT and computer industry – we sure love creating new terms and categories… even when, it can be argued, that we don’t need them. And even when new terms might be useful, it sure can be difficult to come to grips with them. Especially when every...