The Boston College Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) supports reporting and analytics over a broad spectrum of University data. Developed in 2003, the EDW has advanced in terms of content, information ...

The purposes of a data lake’s data are undetermined. Businesses can use the data for any purpose, whereas data warehouse data is already determined and in use. Hence why data lakes have more flexible ...

First introduced in SQL Server 2012, columnstore indexes can give you major performance gains -- provided you have the right workloads. Here's how columnstore indexes work and what types of data ...

Input Tables create Sigma-managed tables within a user’s cloud data warehouse directly from typed user inputs, referenced drop downs, or large copy-and-pasted data.

Palantir and Snowflake are data warehousing tools that offer unique methods of interacting with large, non-relational data sets. While Palantir uses private operating system models, Snowflake ...

Many organizations nowadays are struggling with finding the appropriate data stores for their data, making it important to understand the differences and similarities between data warehouses, data ...