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Simplifying Data Engineering and Analytics with Delta

You're reading from   Simplifying Data Engineering and Analytics with Delta Create analytics-ready data that fuels artificial intelligence and business intelligence

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801814867
Length 334 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Anindita Mahapatra Anindita Mahapatra
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1 – Introduction to Delta Lake and Data Engineering Principles
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Data Engineering FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Data Modeling and ETL 4. Chapter 3: Delta – The Foundation Block for Big Data 5. Section 2 – End-to-End Process of Building Delta Pipelines
6. Chapter 4: Unifying Batch and Streaming with Delta 7. Chapter 5: Data Consolidation in Delta Lake 8. Chapter 6: Solving Common Data Pattern Scenarios with Delta 9. Chapter 7: Delta for Data Warehouse Use Cases 10. Chapter 8: Handling Atypical Data Scenarios with Delta 11. Chapter 9: Delta for Reproducible Machine Learning Pipelines 12. Chapter 10: Delta for Data Products and Services 13. Section 3 – Operationalizing and Productionalizing Delta Pipelines
14. Chapter 11: Operationalizing Data and ML Pipelines 15. Chapter 12: Optimizing Cost and Performance with Delta 16. Chapter 13: Managing Your Data Journey 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 7: Delta for Data Warehouse Use Cases

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change."

– Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species. "Descent with modification"

In the previous chapters, we went over the main capabilities of Delta and its edge over other data formats and protocols. Delta has its origins in data lakes, and we examined how Delta addresses the common challenges of traditional data lakes. In fact, it is the evolutionary next stage of lakes and fits into a new category known as the data lakehouse. So, it is a no-brainer that it is the preferred choice for any new data lake initiative, but what about data warehouse use cases? Is that a separate category of data scenarios that data lakes do not tackle effectively?

The data warehouse is a concept that was born in the 1980s! It was popularized by relational database platforms. As is true of...

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