contents

 

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

Variety

Volume

Velocity

Two more V’s

  1.8  Common use cases

2  Why a data platform and not just a data warehouse