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Why Reinvent the Wheel? The Challenges of DIY Open Source Analytics Platforms

Cloudera

In their effort to reduce their technology spend, some organizations that leverage open source projects for advanced analytics often consider either building and maintaining their own runtime with the required data processing engines or retaining older, now obsolete, versions of legacy Cloudera runtimes (CDH or HDP).

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Big Data in Healthcare: Sources and Real-World Applications

Altexsoft

In general, a data infrastructure is a system of hardware and software tools used to collect, store, transfer, prepare, analyze, and visualize data. Check our article on data engineering to get a detailed understanding of the data pipeline and its components. Big data infrastructure in a nutshell.

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The Good and the Bad of Databricks Lakehouse Platform

Altexsoft

What is Databricks Databricks is an analytics platform with a unified set of tools for data engineering, data management , data science, and machine learning. It combines the best elements of a data warehouse, a centralized repository for structured data, and a data lake used to host large amounts of raw data.