This blog was written based on a collaborative webinar conducted by Hevo Data and Danu Consulting- “Data Bytes and Insights: Building a Modern Data Stack from the Ground Up”, furthering Hevo’s partnership with Danu consulting. The webinar explored how to build a robust modern data stack that will act as a foundation towards more advanced data science applications like AI and ML. If you are interested in knowing more, visit our YouTube channel now! Table of Contents.

MariaDB is an offshoot of the MySQL relational database management platform, designed to give users greater big data management capabilities and scalability in a fully open-source format. For everything from optimized data warehouse formatting to unified data management, a dedicated MariaDB ETL tool is the best way to move forward with analyzing and managing your data in this environment and beyond.

Fivetran and Stitch Data are two of the top contenders in the great ETL tool debate. But both platforms have their own sets of advantages and drawbacks. Choosing the right ETL platform for your business depends on several factors unique to your company, such as the types of data you need to analyze and the business intelligence (BI) you expect to glean from it. Which of these ETL/ELT platforms is the right option to add to your data stack?

Zero ETL is a movement shaking up the data integration landscape with a groundbreaking approach. It has the potential to catapult businesses into a new phase of real-time analytics and decision-making. Amidst the buzz, it stands out with potential to redefine the speed and agility with which organizations harness their most valuable asset-data.

Google Analytics is one of the most widely used web analytics platforms for businesses working to understand web traffic trends. Google Analytics integrates with many other business applications and data sources, but for some organizations, these integrations are difficult to set up for more complex platforms like data warehouses and lakes. Fortunately, a number of leading data integration and ETL companies offer accessible connectors, tools, and support specific to Google Analytics integrations.

Segment is a popular customer data platform (CDP) that enables users to collect and manage customer data in different formats and from different sources. The platform hosts tools to transform, migrate, and manage data with third-party destinations, including data warehouses. Segment is a powerful tool that can appear complex.

Regardless of what products or services your business brings to market, the modern shopper isn't likely to buy if your organization avoids online advertising that increases brand exposure. Google Ads is a popular digital advertising management tool that integrates seamlessly with the user experience customers already have on the internet while simultaneously giving business owners the agency to manage and measure the success of individual ads, advertising campaigns, different digital formats, and more.

Like peanut butter and jelly, ETL and data modeling are a winning combo. Data modeling can't exist without ETL, and ETL can't exist with data modeling. Not if you want to model data properly. Combining the two defines the rules for data transformations and preps data for big data analytics. In the age of big data, businesses can learn more than ever about their customers, identify new product opportunities, and so on.

Microsoft SQL is a popular relational database management system organizations use to manage and store data. As data volumes grow, extracting, transforming, and loading data has become essential for many businesses.

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is a cloud-based object storage service from Amazon Web Services that collects data from anywhere on the internet. In today's data-driven world, businesses rely heavily on seamless data integration and transformation processes to unlock the full potential of their vast data resources. But what happens if you want to move data from Amazon S3 to a data warehouse for analysis?