Data Warehousing

Data Lake vs Data Warehouse vs Database: Top 5 Differences

September 11th, 2024 By Skand Agrawal in Data Warehousing, Database Management System

1GB of data was referred to as big data in 1999. Nowadays, the term is used for petabytes or even exabytes of data (1024 Petabytes), close to trillions of records…

Understanding Data Warehouse Architecture

September 10th, 2024 By Neha Sharma in Data Warehousing

In today’s competitive era, data is a catalyst fueling businesses to grow faster. As data volumes increase, fetching insights from this data comes with its challenges. Sure, you can use…

Getting Started with Snowflake Materialized Views

September 10th, 2024 By Suraj Poddar in Data Warehousing, Snowflake

In Snowflake, the views are crucial for organizing, selecting, and retrieving data while not copying the data itself. Instead, if performance is a concern—such as in querying large data sets—then…

Comprehensive Guide to Modern Data Warehouse in 2025

September 5th, 2024 By Sakshi Kulshreshtha in Data Warehousing

A data warehouse is a centralized system that stores, integrates, and analyzes large volumes of structured data from various sources. It is predicted that more than 200 zettabytes of data…

Databricks Query Optimization – A Complete Guide to Increase Performance for 2025

September 1st, 2024 By Sarang Ravate in Data Warehousing

Optimization plays a big role in data engineering since Large scale and complex data requires better management and Querying of data. In platforms like Databricks based on speed and performance,…

5 Best Cloud Data Warehouses (Based on G2 Ratings)

August 30th, 2024 By Suraj Poddar in BigQuery, Data Warehousing, Redshift, Snowflake

In today’s cloud-rich landscape, businesses are turning to data warehouses to store, manage, and analyze their data. As of 2024, over 65k companies use cloud data warehouses to enhance their…

Quick Guide to the Snowflake Semantic Layer in 2025

August 30th, 2024 By Ahmed Shaaban in Data Warehousing, Snowflake

Snowflake is a cloud data warehouse that has taken the world by storm, establishing itself as one of the core technologies in the cloud era. Snowflake is a cross-cloud platform;…

Everything You Need to Know About Snowpark Architecture

August 12th, 2024 By Asimiyu Musa in Data Warehousing, Snowflake

Data professionals such as data engineers, scientists, and developers often use various tools and programming languages to get their work done. For your organization, these preferences can lead to overly…

Snowflake Polaris Catalog – What is it?

August 1st, 2024 By Neha Sharma in Data Warehousing, Snowflake

As data continues to drive modern-day business decisions, the need for interoperable engines with open-source table formats becomes paramount. Addressing this need, Snowflake introduced the Polaris catalog for Apache Iceberg…

How to Build RAG Applications Using Snowflake Cortex?

July 30th, 2024 By Srujana Maddula in Data Warehousing, Snowflake

GPT has become a go-to search engine for many. We often use it instead of Google to get a quick solution for any query. Given its popularity, why don’t you…

Optimizing Data Warehouse Cost using Apache Iceberg

July 30th, 2024 By Raju Mandal in Data Warehousing

Data warehouses bring phenomenal results from well-informed, data-driven decision-making for an organization. There were times when only companies with large capital, and substantial IT infrastructures invested time and effort, let…

Snowflake Universal Search: A Game-Changer for Data Discovery

July 24th, 2024 By Asimiyu Musa in Data Warehousing, Snowflake

Searching for data manually in Snowflake can be very challenging, time-consuming and sometimes frustrating. Snowflake identifies these problems and has developed Universal Search to change the way we search for…

What is Snowflake Horizon? Key Features, Benefits & Use-Cases

July 15th, 2024 By Suraj Poddar in Data Warehousing, Snowflake

Has it ever occurred to you that the volume of data your business processes daily is too overwhelming? You are not alone. So many companies need help in managing and…

How to Create Streamlit Apps on Snowflake? – A Step by Step Guide

July 10th, 2024 By Srujana Maddula in Data Warehousing, Snowflake

The choice of data management system determines how quickly and in real-time you can store and access information. Some cloud database architectures, like Snowflake, offer a scalable and flexible environment…

Snowflake Terraform Integration Made Easy

July 8th, 2024 By Roopa Madhuri G in Data Warehousing, Snowflake

Managing infrastructure manually across multiple cloud providers leads to consistency, deployment delays, and difficulty in scaling. You need a solution that automates infrastructure provisioning, ensures consistency, and supports rapid deployment…

Snowflake Arctic: Getting Started with Snowflake’s new LLM

July 5th, 2024 By Rashmi Joshi in Data Warehousing, Snowflake

Snowflake launched its new open-source, “state-of-the-art ” large language model, Snowflake Arctic, in April 2024. The data cloud company announced that the primary idea behind this innovation was to simplify…

Snowflake Master Data Management: Strategies & Use Cases

June 26th, 2024 By Sarthak Bhardwaj in Data Warehousing, Snowflake

Master data is the core data that impacts all your important business transactions and operations. It includes information on customers, products, employees, suppliers, location, and finances of your business organization.…

Snowflake Data Mart – How to Build One?

June 26th, 2024 By Skand Agrawal in Data Warehousing, Snowflake

Your organization may store large volumes of data in a single Snowflake data warehouse. However, extracting data specific to individual departments from the data warehouse can be time-consuming, delaying your…

Snowflake Data Lakehouse: What is it & How to Build One?

June 26th, 2024 By Sarad Mohanan in Data Warehousing, Snowflake

You can use data warehouses or data lakes as a repository for data management and analytics tasks. Both of these solutions have their advantages and disadvantages. A data warehouse is…

Snowflake Max Date: Features & Use Cases

June 26th, 2024 By Sarthak Bhardwaj in Data Warehousing, Snowflake

Snowflake is a versatile cloud-based data warehouse many organizations use for data management and analytics. It supports various data types, including date, time, and timestamp. Using Snowflake date functions, you…