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How to Operationalize your Data Warehouse with Reverse ETL

Organizations are losing out on data-driven decision-making opportunities when data stays in the data warehouse. While business intelligence solutions can surface insights from these data sets, it often reaches team members too late to be used for daily business operations. Reverse ETL empowers organizations to increase the value of their data warehouses through operationalization. Learn how this can transform the way companies use data and insights.

Snowflake Data Marketplace In Action: Solving Real-World Problems with Public Data

Meet 3 data practitioners who used Snowflake Data Marketplace to answer interesting questions with public data - and gained real benefits for their companies and careers. Snowflake Data Marketplace allows data analysts, data scientists, and data engineers to access more than 650 live, ready-to-query data sets from more than 175 third-party data providers and data service providers.

Buying and selling your home with data: A Q&A with Opendoor CTO Ian Wong

While many businesses struggled to keep pace with the changing economics of a global pandemic, the real estate industry was booming. The housing market reached record-breaking heights last month, with median existing-price homes rising 17.2% over the prior year. This increase in the average cost of a house was compounded by accelerated closing times, as the average house sold in 18 days, a record low.

Spark vs. Tez: What's the Difference?

Let's get started with this great debate. First, a step back; we’ve pointed out that Apache Spark and Hadoop MapReduce are two different Big Data beasts. The former is a high-performance in-memory data-processing framework, and the latter is a mature batch-processing platform for the petabyte scale. We also know that Apache Hive and HBase are two very different tools with similar functions. Hive is a SQL-like engine that runs MapReduce jobs, while HBase is a NoSQL key/value database on Hadoop.