What is a modern cloud data lake? How it compares to other analytics solutions Tips for choosing a cloud data lake Get insights fast from all your data by all your users with a cloud data lake The concept of first-generation data lakes aimed to create a single repository for storing, integrating, and analyzing all of an organization's data. As years passed, reality set in and most data lake initiatives failed. Today, organizations still want to achieve that aim: a cloud data lake that is simple yet powerful, flexible and affordable, and provides unparalleled business value. Read this book to learn how the modern cloud data lake provides all of this and more to enable data-driven decision-making across your organization. Inside... Why the cloud data lake emerged How to evaluate different data lakes How to easily enable a modern data lake with the modern data platform How to maximize scale and lower costs Why data security, governance, and sovereignty are data lake essentials How a data lake enables data sharing
What is a cloud data warehouse? Comparing data warehouse solutions How to choose a cloud data warehouse Achieve a competitive advantage with the power of cloud data warehousing Modern organizations now have access to exponentially larger amounts of data they can analyze to gain the deepest insights possible. In addition, organizations want to securely share data - and acquire shared data - across their business units, within their business ecosystems, and beyond by using data exchanges to monetize that data. But accessing that data poses even greater challenges that continue to plague traditional data analytics platforms. Modern enterprises now realize that cloud data warehousing is the most effective and cost-efficient way to store and analyze all their data for all their business users. This book reveals what's available and how your organization can benefit from this new and exciting technology. Inside... Why the cloud data warehouse emerged How the cloud data warehouse compares How to evaluate different warehouses Why security and governance matter The benefits of a cross-cloud solution How modern data sharing delivers even deeper insights Real-world case studies
What is secure enterprise data sharing? How to avoid the hassles of moving shared data How to securely share your data Gain deeper insights into new business opportunities with modern data sharing Organizations that share live, governed, and secure data across their business units, and within their business ecosystems, better serve their customers and more quickly reveal new market opportunities. However, traditional data sharing methods have produced only limited results thanks to cumbersome, costly, and risky processes. In addition, they don't enable you to safely monetize your data via a modern data marketplace. This book reveals how you can easily and securely share data via the modern, cloud-built data warehouse or data lake. Inside... Why data sharing emerged 100 years ago Why early methods limit what's possible How a cloud-built architecture enables live, secure, and governed data sharing How to govern and monetize your data Real-world data sharing case studies Steps to start sharing live data
Develop modern solutions with Snowflake's unique architecture and integration capabilities; process bulk and real-time data into a data lake; and leverage time travel, cloning, and data-sharing features to optimize data operations Key Features Build and scale modern data solutions using the all-in-one Snowflake platform Perform advanced cloud analytics for implementing big data and data science solutions Make quicker and better-informed business decisions by uncovering key insights from your data Book Description Snowflake is a unique cloud-based data warehousing platform built from scratch to perform data management on the cloud. This book introduces you to Snowflake's unique architecture, which places it at the forefront of cloud data warehouses. You'll explore the compute model available with Snowflake, and find out how Snowflake allows extensive scaling through the virtual warehouses. You will then learn how to configure a virtual warehouse for optimizing cost and performance. Moving on, you'll get to grips with the data ecosystem and discover how Snowflake integrates with other technologies for staging and loading data. As you progress through the chapters, you will leverage Snowflake's capabilities to process a series of SQL statements using tasks to build data pipelines and find out how you can create modern data solutions and pipelines designed to provide high performance and scalability. You will also get to grips with creating role hierarchies, adding custom roles, and setting default roles for users before covering advanced topics such as data sharing, cloning, and performance optimization. By the end of this Snowflake book, you will be well-versed in Snowflake's architecture for building modern analytical solutions and understand best practices for solving commonly faced problems using practical recipes. What you will learn Get to grips with data warehousing techniques aligned with Snowflake's cloud architecture Broaden your skills as a data warehouse designer to cover the Snowflake ecosystem Transfer skills from on-premise data warehousing to the Snowflake cloud analytics platform Optimize performance and costs associated with a Snowflake solution Stage data on object stores and load it into Snowflake Secure data and share it efficiently for access Manage transactions and extend Snowflake using stored procedures Extend cloud data applications using Spark Connector Who this book is for This book is for data warehouse developers, data analysts, database administrators, and anyone involved in designing, implementing, and optimizing a Snowflake data warehouse. Knowledge of data warehousing and database and cloud concepts will be useful. Basic familiarity with Snowflake is beneficial, but not necessary.
Take a dive into data lakes “Data lakes” is the latest buzz word in the world of data storage, management, and analysis. Data Lakes For Dummies decodes and demystifies the concept and helps you get a straightforward answer the question: “What exactly is a data lake and do I need one for my business?” Written for an audience of technology decision makers tasked with keeping up with the latest and greatest data options, this book provides the perfect introductory survey of these novel and growing features of the information landscape. It explains how they can help your business, what they can (and can’t) achieve, and what you need to do to create the lake that best suits your particular needs. With a minimum of jargon, prolific tech author and business intelligence consultant Alan Simon explains how data lakes differ from other data storage paradigms. Once you’ve got the background picture, he maps out ways you can add a data lake to your business systems; migrate existing information and switch on the fresh data supply; clean up the product; and open channels to the best intelligence software for to interpreting what you’ve stored. Understand and build data lake architecture Store, clean, and synchronize new and existing data Compare the best data lake vendors Structure raw data and produce usable analytics Whatever your business, data lakes are going to form ever more prominent parts of the information universe every business should have access to. Dive into this book to start exploring the deep competitive advantage they make possible—and make sure your business isn’t left standing on the shore.
Embark on the data journey with the ultimate guide to Snowflake mastery KEY FEATURES ● Learn about Snowflake cloud-based data architecture and its basics. ● Learn and implement Snowflake’s unified features with use cases. ● Design and deploy robust enterprise data architectures with Snowflake. DESCRIPTION Handling ever evolving data for business needs can get complex. Traditional methods create bulky and costly-to-maintain data systems. Here, Snowflake emerges as a cost-effective solution, catering to both traditional and modern data needs with zero or minimal maintenance costs. This book helps you grasp Snowflake, guiding you to create complete solutions from start to finish. The starting focus covers Snowflake architecture, key features, native loading and unloading capabilities, ANSI SQL support, and processing of diverse data types and objects. The next part utilizes acquired knowledge to look into implementing data security, governance, and collaborations, utilizing Snowflake's features like data sharing and cloning. The final part explores advanced topics, including streams, tasks, performance optimizations, cost efficiencies, and operationalization with automated monitoring. Real-time use cases and reference architectures are provided to assist readers in implementing data warehouse, data lake, and data mesh solutions with Snowflake. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN ● Introduction to Snowflake and its three-layered architecture. ● Understand Snowflake’s native features. ● Understand the different types of data workloads and their architecture designs. ● Implement query and cost performance optimization using Snowflake native services. ● Introduction to Snowflake’s advanced features like dynamic and event tables. ● Snowflake’s capabilities with extended support to implement large language models. WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR This book is for data practitioners, data engineers, data architects, or every data enthusiast who is keen on learning Snowflake. It does not need any prior experience, however, it is beneficial to have a basic understanding of cloud computing, data concepts and basic programming skills. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Getting Started with Snowflake 2. Three Layered Architecture 3. Data Types, Data Objects and SQL Commands 4. Data Loading and Unloading 5. Understanding Streams and Tasks 6. Understanding Snowpark 7. Access Control and Managing Users Roles 8. Data Protection and Recovery 9. Snowflake Performance Optimization 10. Understanding Snowflake Costing and Utilizations 11. Implementing Cost Optimizations 12. Data Sharing 13. Data Cloning 14. Understanding Snowsight 15. Programming Connectors and Drivers 16. Workload Patterns with Snowflake 17. Introduction to Snowflake’s Advance Features
Snowflake's ability to eliminate data silos and run workloads from a single platform creates opportunities to democratize data analytics, allowing users at all levels within an organization to make data-driven decisions. Whether you're an IT professional working in data warehousing or data science, a business analyst or technical manager, or an aspiring data professional wanting to get more hands-on experience with the Snowflake platform, this book is for you. You'll learn how Snowflake users can build modern integrated data applications and develop new revenue streams based on data. Using hands-on SQL examples, you'll also discover how the Snowflake Data Cloud helps you accelerate data science by avoiding replatforming or migrating data unnecessarily. You'll be able to: Efficiently capture, store, and process large amounts of data at an amazing speed Ingest and transform real-time data feeds in both structured and semistructured formats and deliver meaningful data insights within minutes Use Snowflake Time Travel and zero-copy cloning to produce a sensible data recovery strategy that balances system resilience with ongoing storage costs Securely share data and reduce or eliminate data integration costs by accessing ready-to-query datasets available in the Snowflake Marketplace
Over 400 million SaaS data sets remained siloed globally, isolated in cloud data storage and on-premise data centers. The Data Cloud eliminates these silos, allowing you to seamlessly unify, analyze, share, and even monetize your data This Data Cloud Information book will give you an understanding of what we've built to help you create a business with data as its most robust foundation. Snowflake delivers the Data Cloud -- a global network where thousands of organizations mobilize data with near-unlimited scale, concurrency, and performance. Inside the Data Cloud, organizations unite their siloes of data, easily discover and securely share governed data, and execute diverse analytic workloads. Wherever data or users live, Snowflake delivers a single and seamless experience across multiple public clouds, helping power the data economy. Snowflake's platform is the engine that powers and provides access to the Data Cloud, creating a solution for data warehousing, data lakes, data engineering, data science, data application development, and data sharing.
Explore the modern market of data analytics platforms and the benefits of using Snowflake computing, the data warehouse built for the cloud. With the rise of cloud technologies, organizations prefer to deploy their analytics using cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform. Cloud vendors are offering modern data platforms for building cloud analytics solutions to collect data and consolidate into single storage solutions that provide insights for business users. The core of any analytics framework is the data warehouse, and previously customers did not have many choices of platform to use. Snowflake was built specifically for the cloud and it is a true game changer for the analytics market. This book will help onboard you to Snowflake, present best practices to deploy, and use the Snowflake data warehouse. In addition, it covers modern analytics architecture and use cases. It provides use cases of integration with leading analytics software such as Matillion ETL, Tableau, and Databricks. Finally, it covers migration scenarios for on-premise legacy data warehouses. What You Will Learn Know the key functionalities of Snowflake Set up security and access with cluster Bulk load data into Snowflake using the COPY command Migrate from a legacy data warehouse to Snowflake integrate the Snowflake data platform with modern business intelligence (BI) and data integration tools Who This Book Is For Those working with data warehouse and business intelligence (BI) technologies, and existing and potential Snowflake users
This old edition was published in 2002. The current and final edition of this book is The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Definitive Guide to Dimensional Modeling, 3rd Edition which was published in 2013 under ISBN: 9781118530801. The authors begin with fundamental design recommendations and gradually progress step-by-step through increasingly complex scenarios. Clear-cut guidelines for designing dimensional models are illustrated using real-world data warehouse case studies drawn from a variety of business application areas and industries, including: Retail sales and e-commerce Inventory management Procurement Order management Customer relationship management (CRM) Human resources management Accounting Financial services Telecommunications and utilities Education Transportation Health care and insurance By the end of the book, you will have mastered the full range of powerful techniques for designing dimensional databases that are easy to understand and provide fast query response. You will also learn how to create an architected framework that integrates the distributed data warehouse using standardized dimensions and facts.
