Analytics

Databases Compared: Databricks vs. Snowflake vs. ChaosSearch vs. Elasticsearch

For organizations that generate large amounts of data, implementing a cloud database solution is a critical step towards enabling performant and cost-effective data storage, transformation, and analytics. Choosing the right cloud database solution involves careful consideration of features, capabilities, costs, and use cases to ensure alignment with your organization’s needs and objectives. This blog post features an in-depth comparison of four popular cloud database solutions: Databricks vs.

Product Update: Boost Databricks productivity, performance, and efficiency

Today, 65% of IT decision-makers believe their company is falling behind the competition in using data and analytics. Why? Organizations want real-time insights, fraud/anomaly detection, trend analysis, and systems monitoring. The good news – data teams that use DataOps practices and tools will be 10 times more productive.With this in mind, Unravel is hosting a live event to share new capabilities to help you achieve productivity, performance, and cost efficiency with Databricks’ Data Intelligence Platform.

Contributing to Apache Kafka: How to Write a KIP

I’m brand new to writing KIPs (Kafka Improvement Proposals). I’ve written two so far, and my hands sweat every time I hit send on an email with ‘ KIP’ in the title. But I’ve also learned a lot from the process: about Apache Kafka internals, the process of writing KIPs, the Kafka community, and the most important motivation for developing software: our end users. What did I actually write? Let’s review KIP-941 and KIP-1020.

Exploring Data Provenance: Ensuring Data Integrity and Authenticity

Data provenance is a method of creating a documented trail that accounts for data’s origin, creation, movement, and dissemination. It involves storing the ownership and process history of data objects to answer questions like, “When was data created?”, “Who created the data?” and “Why was it created? Data Provenance is vital in establishing data lineage, which is essential for validating, debugging, auditing, and evaluating data quality and determining data reliability.

What Is Metadata Why Is It Important?

Metadata refers to the information about data that gives it more context and relevance. It records essential aspects of the data (e.g., date, size, ownership, data type, or other data sources) to help users discover, identify, understand, organize, retrieve, and use it—transforming information into business-critical assets. Think of it as labels on a box that describe what’s inside. Metadata makes it easier to find and utilize the data that you need. Typical metadata elements include.

5 Ways Advertising, Media and Entertainment Companies are Using Gen AI

The emergence of generative AI (gen AI) heralds a new, groundbreaking era for advertising, media and entertainment. According to a recent Snowflake report, Advertising, Media and Entertainment Data + AI Predictions 2024, gen AI is going to transform the industry — from content creation to customer experience. The companies that will come out ahead during this time are those that most successfully and quickly supercharge their data strategy.

What Separates Hybrid Cloud and 'True' Hybrid Cloud?

Hybrid cloud plays a central role in many of today’s emerging innovations—most notably artificial intelligence (AI) and other emerging technologies that create new business value and improve operational efficiencies. But getting there requires data, and a lot of it. More than that, though, harnessing the potential of these technologies requires quality data—without it, the output from an AI implementation can end up inefficient or wholly inaccurate.

Insight With Eyesight: Qlik Introduces a New Era of Visualization

Our ability to tell stories is an art form as old as language itself. From ancient cave paintings to oral traditions passed through generations, the essence of stories has evolved alongside our communication methods. It began with visual tales etched on cave walls, transitioned into spoken narratives, and eventually found its way into written, printed, and typed forms.