preface
acknowledgments
about this book
about the authors
about the cover illustration
1 Introducing the data platform
1.1 The trends behind the change from data warehouses to data platforms
1.2 Data warehouses struggle with data variety, volume, and velocity
Variety
Volume
Velocity
All the V’s at once
1.3 Data lakes to the rescue?
1.4 Along came the cloud
1.5 Cloud, data lakes, and data warehouses: The emergence of cloud data platforms
1.6 Building blocks of a cloud data platform
Ingestion layer
Storage layer
Processing layer
Serving layer
1.7 How the cloud data platform deals with the three V’s
Two more V’s
1.8 Common use cases
2 Why a data platform and not just a data warehouse