Blog posts tagged
"data lake"

3 posts

robgibbon
3 May 2023

Big data security foundations in five steps

Article Data Platform

We’ve all read the headlines about spectacular data breaches and other security incidents, and the impact that they have had on the victim organisations. And in some ways there’s no place more vulnerable to attack than a big data environment like a data lake.

robgibbon
3 May 2023

robgibbon
28 May 2021

Let’s play: sharded big data PostgreSQL

Article Data Systems

Everyone knows that if you’ve got big data, you need Apache Hadoop, right? It’s an affordable, horizontally scalable, clustered data processing platform ideal for data warehousing use cases. And it knocks the socks off classic relational database management systems like PostgreSQL that can barely keep up when playing...

robgibbon
28 May 2021

robgibbon
20 May 2021

Data Lab, Data Lake, Data Hub: what’s the difference?

Article AI

In this post we’ll explore the concepts of data lake, data hub and data lab. There are many opinions and interpretations of these concepts, and they are broadly comparable. In fact, many might say they’re synonymous and we’re just splitting hairs. Let’s look again.

robgibbon
20 May 2021