This chapter covers
- Answering “Why a data platform and not just a data warehouse?” and “Why build your data platform in the cloud?”
- Comparing a data platform to a data warehouse-only using a real world example
- Comparing differences in processing structured and semi-structured data in data warehouse and a data platform
- Comparing cloud costs for a data warehouse and data platform implementations
Now that we’ve covered off what a data platform is, what is driving the need for a data platform and how changes in data will shape your data platform, we will explore in more detail why a cloud data platform provides more capabilities as opposed to a data warehouse only architecture. In this chapter we will equip you with the knowledge necessary to make a solid argument for a data platform and will walk you through several examples demonstrating the difference between the two approaches (data warehouse only and data platform).