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Modern Data Architecture on AWS

You're reading from  Modern Data Architecture on AWS

Product type Book
Published in Aug 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801813396
Pages 420 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Behram Irani Behram Irani
Profile icon Behram Irani
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Table of Contents (24) Chapters close

Preface 1. Part 1: Foundational Data Lake
2. Prologue: The Data and Analytics Journey So Far 3. Chapter 1: Modern Data Architecture on AWS 4. Chapter 2: Scalable Data Lakes 5. Part 2: Purpose-Built Services And Unified Data Access
6. Chapter 3: Batch Data Ingestion 7. Chapter 4: Streaming Data Ingestion 8. Chapter 5: Data Processing 9. Chapter 6: Interactive Analytics 10. Chapter 7: Data Warehousing 11. Chapter 8: Data Sharing 12. Chapter 9: Data Federation 13. Chapter 10: Predictive Analytics 14. Chapter 11: Generative AI 15. Chapter 12: Operational Analytics 16. Chapter 13: Business Intelligence 17. Part 3: Govern, Scale, Optimize And Operationalize
18. Chapter 14: Data Governance 19. Chapter 15: Data Mesh 20. Chapter 16: Performant and Cost-Effective Data Platform 21. Chapter 17: Automate, Operationalize, and Monetize 22. Index 23. Other Books You May Enjoy

Data catalogs

We talked about a data lake in AWS being a combination of the data in S3 buckets and the metadata of this data stored in a catalog. We will solve the mystery of creating a technical catalog in AWS by introducing another critical service for building a modern data platform, AWS Glue—a serverless data integration service. Now, Glue is actually an umbrella service consisting of multiple parts. It has the Glue ETL part, which is used for building data integration work, and we have multiple chapters on data ingestion and integration. The component of Glue that is relevant to our data catalog discussion is Glue Data Catalog. Let’s unfold more about the catalog in Glue and how it helps with our data lake in S3.

Glue Data Catalog

As the data passes through layers of the data lake in S3, the metadata of the data is captured and stored in Glue Data Catalog. It creates and stores the technical metadata in the form of data definition language (DDL) statements...

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